It can help users be clear, correct and consistent in their use of the written word. Use this style guide to aid you in writing articles, books, brochures, correspondence, essays, fliers, newsletters, reports, Web pages and other documents. The style manual is based on The Associated Press Stylebook , other excellent books on writing and various Web sites listed in Garbl's Writing Resources Online . I enhance this style guide with new or revised entries as time goes by. Its three charts provide simpler, concise alternatives to overstated, pompous, bureaucratic, wordy, verbose and redundant words and phrases.
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