<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On Sep 18, 2015, at 4:14 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This one was suggested to me by Stephen Pinker (hmm - watch it, namedropper):<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Clear and Simple as the Truth, by Thomas and Turner, which includes samples of different styles. Superb.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth, which explains an amazing number of writing terms most of us never heard of: zeugma, merism, hyperbaton, tricolon, and 20 something others, all of which you know but not by those names. In his preface he tried to explain Shakespeare's writing.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">His other books are good too.<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A bit of a classic I recommend is:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Style-Anti-Textbook-Richard-A-Lanham/dp/1589880323">http://www.amazon.com/Style-Anti-Textbook-Richard-A-Lanham/dp/1589880323</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Lanham will clear out some drivel and get you thinking, IMO.</span></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Regards,</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Dan</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: '.HelveticaNeueInterface-Regular'; font-size: 13pt;"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank" style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueInterface-Regular'; font-size: 13pt;">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</a></div></div></div></body></html>