"TL" == Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> TL> and BUGS in Writing, Revised Edition: A Guide to Debugging TL> Your Prose (2nd Edition) TL> http://www.amazon.com/dp/020137921X/tomontime-20
+1 on _BUGS in Writing_, which is aimed at writers in scientific disciplines (especially those working on a master's or doctorate degree), so covers a lot of areas not covered by other, more general, books on writing, including information about figures, tables, and bibliographic citations for scientific writing, as well as chapters on how to approach a major writing project. It also takes a slightly different approach than many other writing books -- each chapter focuses on a particular topic, and gives examples that are Bad, Ugly, Good, and Superb (hence BUGS) to help you develop an intuitive sense of how things should go (which she calls ``ear'') rather than merely spelling out a bunch of abstract rules to follow. I don't agree with everything she recommends (e.g., data as a plural only), but overall it's a great resource and can give you a nice base to build on. Claire *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire M. Connelly [email protected] System Administrator, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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