Style and Difference Book

Introduction: Style, Situation, and Difference I. Style
1.Coordinate Balanced Ideas
2.Subordinate Cumulative Ideas
3.Vary Your Sentences
4.Vary Your Sentences—Again
5.Pack Your Sentences with Parallelism
6.Make Your Point with Emphasis and Rhythm
7.Modify with Style
8.Connect Your Thoughts Coherently
9.Be Concise
10.Make Your Voice Heard
11.Figure Your Language for Vivid Writing
12.Omit and, Repeat and II. Difference
13.Use Passive Verbs
14.Begin Your Sentences with and (but, or, nor, for, yet, so)
15.Begin Your Sentences with because (since, while)
16.Fragment Your Sentences
17.Splice with Commas
18.Refer with a Singular they
19.Say I (we, you)
20.Contract Your Words
21.Split Your Infinitives
22.Use which for that
23.End Your Sentences with Prepositions
24.Repeat, Repeat, Repeat III. Punctuation and Style
25.Control Your Commas
26.End with Periods Etc.
27.Dash with Dashes
28.Point with Colons
29.Separate with Semicolons
30.Possess with Apostrophes
31.Connect with Hyphens IV. A Few Good Rules
32.Make Your Verbs Agree with Your Subjects
33.Be Sure Your Pronouns Refer to Something
34.Make Your Pronouns Agree
35.Just in Case—Pronouns Again
36.Don't Dangle Your Modifiers V. Writers on Style Richard A. Lanham, Frank Smith, William Zinsser, Winston Weathers and Otis Winchester, Annie Dillard, Comte de Buffon, Louis Milic, Keith Hjortshoj, Monroe C. Beardsley, Walker Gibson, Aristotle, Quintilian, William Strunk Jr., and E. B. White