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Concise, Scannable, and Objective: How to Write for the Web.
Grammar and Style Notes. An online reference guide.
How Users Read on the Web.
Line by Line: How To Improve Your Own Writing
Claire Kehrwald Cook, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. This book and its examples show you how to use editing techniques to produce flawless sentences, keep your grammar and usage safe from faultfinders and make what you say as good as what you mean.
The Craft of Writing
William Sloane, Penguin Books, 1983. This little classic is loved by writers of fiction and nonfiction, beginners and pros. We still wince when remember certain lines from this wise and witty book. For example: Readers don't care at all about you. They aren't there to be improved by you. What they are saying is, "Tell me about me."
The Elements of Grammar
Margaret Shertzer, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. Why plurals pronouns periods parentheses and commas matter, where they belong and how not to write bad sentences like this one. Don't confuse ingenious (clever) with ingenuous (frank, naive) or canvas (strong tent cloth) with canvass (act of soliciting for orders, votes, etc.). Interrogative pronouns. Subordinate clauses. Transitive and intransitive verbs. (Good grief!) Good grammar. Good habit to pick up this book if "i" before "e" except after "c" is Greek to you.
The Elements of Style. William Strunk and E.B. White's classic is now on-line. If we could choose only one reference book (excluding a dictionary), this slim volume would be it.
The Global Translation Alliance.
The Value in Using Compelling Text. How to use compelling words to increase selling power of your Web site. 
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