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300 Days of Better Writing    by David  Bowman
Price: $9.95 USD. 64370 words. Published on July 7, 2010. .

300 strategies for improving your writing. Strategies are short and to the point (150-250 words each), with explanations, instructions, and samples for each strategy. Learn from them one day at a time or find the strategies you need. Midwest Book Review calls 300 Days of Better Writing "a choice pick."
Precise Edit Training Manual    by David  Bowman
Price: $6.67 USD. 22820 words. Published on July 15, 2010. .

Comprehensive instruction on the 29 most common editing strategies we use and errors we fix. Each topic is fully explained with examples and strategies for editing and writing. This is the writing guide our editors use. Learn to write and edit like a professional.
Bang! Writing with Impact    by David  Bowman
Price: $6.67 USD. 20610 words. Published on July 20, 2010. .

BANG! Writing with Impact is THE guide for writing with impact. Don't waste your time on books that spend pages and pages on how people have used strategies, the reason why impact is important, the history of writing, or similar meaningless information. Bang! is for people who have work to do. This book tells you how to do exactly what you are trying to do: make your readers pay attention.
Dr. Jargonlove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technobabble    by Mark Stucky
Price: Free! 870 words. Published on December 7, 2010. .

Why would somebody write "the biota exhibited a 100 percent mortality response" when he really meant all the fish died? Sometimes people use jargon to be taken seriously, sometimes to be clear and precise, sometimes to not work so hard, and sometimes to deliberately evade and confuse. This essay humorously examines the various motivations for using jargon in both good and bad communication.