Further reading
This is a compilation of resources that ISTC members have recommended. More suggestions are available on Wikipedia.
Apple Publications Style Guide
BBC News Style Guide
Communicator House Style
Economist Style Guide
European Commission: English Style Guide
Guardian Style Guide
IBM Style
Missing Manual Author's Guide
NASA: Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization
Observer Style Guide
Times Style Guide
Web Style Guide
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability
Bartleby.com
BIPM: The International System of Units (SI)
Common Errors in Technical Writing
Developing a Department Style Guide
Guide to Grammar and Style
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Merriam-Webster Dictionary (American English)
NIST Guide to SI Units
NIST: Rules and Style Conventions
NPL: Units of Measurement
Online Technical Writing Textbook
Online Writing Lab
Oxford Reference Online
Plain English Campaign
RNIB: Accessible Website Audits
Sun: Writing for the Web
TECHWR-L: Articles on Writing
The Glossarist
W3C: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Wikipedia on British and American spelling differences
World Wide Words
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right by Bill Bryson (Broadway Books, 2004)
Chicago Manual of Style, The by the University of Chicago Press Staff (Barbican Publishing, 2007) [online by subscription at www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html]
Columbia Guide to Online Style, The by Janice Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia University Press, second edition, 2006)
Complete Plain Words, The by Sir Ernest Gowers et al (David R Godine, third edition, 2004)
Butcher's Copy-editing by Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach (Cambridge University Press, fourth edition, 2006)
Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn (University of California Press, 2005)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Profile Books, 2005)
Elements of Style, The by Strunk & White (Penguin, third edition, 2005)
Everyday Grammar by John Seely (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Full Marks: Advice on Punctuation for Scientific and Technical Writing by John Kirkman (Ramsbury Books, third edition, 1999)
ISO Handbook: Quantities and Units (International Organization for Standardization, fourth edition, 1993)
Made in America by Bill Bryson (Black Swan, 1998)
Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications (Microsoft Press, third edition, 2003)
Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson (Penguin Books, 1991)
New Hart's Rules: Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors by Robert Ritter (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Oxford Guide to Plain English by Martin Cutts (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (Oxford University Press, third edition, 2005)
Quick Solutions to Common Errors in English: An A-Z guide to punctuation, spelling and grammar by Angela Burt (How To Books, 2004)
Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry (Sun Technical Publications/Prentice Hall, second edition, 2003)
Style manual for authors, editors and printers (John Wiley & Sons Australia, sixth edition, 2002)
Technical Editing by Carolyn Rude (Longman, fourth edition, 2005)
Writing for Business by Chris Shevlin (Penguin, 2005)
The titles covered by the ISTC's subscription to Oxford Reference Online are:
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary
- The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
- The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
- The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
- Concise Oxford Companion to The English Language
- A New Dictionary of Eponyms
- The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
- The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
- Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- World Encyclopedia
- A Dictionary of Computing
- A Dictionary of the Internet
- A Dictionary of Astronomy
- A Dictionary of Biology
- A Dictionary of Chemistry
- A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
- A Dictionary of Ecology
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
- Concise Medical Dictionary
- A Dictionary of Physics
- A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
- A Dictionary of Psychology
- A Dictionary of Statistics
- A Dictionary of Zoology
- A Dictionary of Accounting
- A Dictionary of Finance and Banking
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