Writers! Try these links or many reasons why you do not need a textbook.
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Writing Round-up
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Great all-purpose help from grammar to document design...
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Aristotle's Big Book of Persuasion....still good after all these years.
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CMoS is one of the most authoritative guides on punctuation, citation, and other document conventions.
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Hypertext book for scientific and technical writers; hosted by MIT.
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Four lessons -- about 15 sub-lessons
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Typical manuscript guidance for journal articles
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Based on medical journals but useful for all.
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Chose short podcasts or text explanations
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Inform yourself
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ESL Helpful Sites
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Addresses common problems with many examples.
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Grammar presentations
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Think Before You Write
Gathering of resoures, including Aristotle....Go ARI!-
BTW, what's a Wiki? Do we care?
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Fuzzy thinking: Be deliberate and aware!
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Highly recommended!
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Zany-i-ness
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Visual Rhetoric
Best of the Web -- communicating chiefly by images-
Nice round up of communication topics for environmental scientists
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Under 7 minute video
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Mb' presentations on language
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Why do memes work so well as instructional texts?