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To: Duke who wrote (1408)	8/20/1998 12:49:00 AM
From: Yamakita	Respond to of 4711

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style remains the single best text on writing well that I know. It won't help you specifically with analytical writing, but the general advice contained in the book is so good that even report writers can't help but benefit from it.

To: Duke who wrote (1408)	8/20/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 4711

Duke, I second the recommendation on Strunk & White. First among its many virtues is its size - it is small enough not to intimidate, and still contains all anyone needs to know to write well. On military english and other similar repositories of babble, I can only say that anything which can't be said in plain, simple, language probably shouldn't be said at all. And anyone who refuses to use plain, simple, language probably doesn't want you to know what's really being said. Which is why the military, and other government appendages, are so fond of what Russell Baker once called "multiple oleaginous syllabification". Steve