I hate to dump a laundry list of reading, but these all helped me tremendously: 1. Politics and the English Language (Orwell) 2. The Age of the Essay (Graham

I hate to dump a laundry list of reading, but these all helped me tremendously: 1. Politics and the English Language (Orwell) 2. The Age of the Essay (Graham). 3. On Writing (Stephen King) 4. On Writing Well (Zinsser) 5. The Elements of Style (Strunk and White) 6. Essential English for Journalists, Editors, and Writers (Evans)