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Style guide
A style guide is a work aiming to set out rules for writers. In such works, style can have two meanings:
- Publication conventions for markup style, such as italicization of book and movie titles, expression of dates and numbers, or formats for footnotes.
- Literary considerations of prose style, such as best usage, common grammatical errors, rules or suggestions for the most forceful expression of ideas.
Some style guides include:
For the English language:
- The Chicago Manual of Style -- mostly publishing conventions
- Words into Type[?] -- publishing conventions, less scholarly, more accessible than the Chicago Manual
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White-- mostly literary style, American
- Fowler's Modern English Usage -- mostly literary style, British, later editions not written by Henry W. Fowler
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
- Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers -- mostly literary style, British slant
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style -- the style guide used for this encyclopedia, Wikipedia
Other relevant books:
- Usage and Abusage[?] by Eric Partridge[?]
- The King's English by Kingsley Amis
- Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
- The Guardian's style guide (http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide)
- The Economist's style guide (http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/)
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