Revision & Editing
A topic within Writing Craft, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Literature.
Reading for Writing Craft
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No prior grounding assumed.
- BookThe Elements of StyleStrunk & White, 1959
Omit needless words. A short prescriptive manual worth knowing well enough to break deliberately.
- BookOn WritingStephen King, 2000
Half memoir, half craft manual: read constantly, write daily, cut ten percent, and distrust adverbs.