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@Mitch Engineering style would be nice, but wish to not limit myself? I guess its a good start. I would like to have a more 'story telling' and visual style. Which will also help with engineering because Im such a visual person

anybody know what this is? www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/modestproposal.pdf

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 haha nice

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What is Standard English?!

@terdon I got a kindle! Heard that C.S Lewis has great books with well written english

@terdon I agree! I wish to avoid that

@terdon haha. Well... I hope to still improve despite being a native speaker

@tchrist hopefully, I am not hopeless. lol

@Mitch English is my primary language, but I remember having a hard time learning proper grammar and what not as a kid. I graduated college already in Engineer where writing well was not a 'concern'. Improving my english is a long time goal of mine, I no longer want to fear people's poor reflection of me because I can not communicate properly. This greatly affected my public speaking performance at school because I will write my manuscripts

@Mitch nope, i can not tell styles from each other. To me, everything is 'well written'

@Mitch or anyone for that matter, got any recommendations for grammar books? I found a few ESL, or spanish to english learning guides online which are not written for native speakers like me.

@Mitch Thanks for the tip. I was looking at the links posted by @Mr.ShinyandNew安宇, and I feel I should probably be more confident/comfortable with grammar then look into styles

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh...

@terdon =[

@Cerberus thanks =]

I agree with @AndrewLeach, as a computer engineer, the mathematics behind things are pretty clear and well defined, so it 'make sense'

@terdon @AndrewLeach asking how and why or examples of why it works, is how my brain tries to make sense of things

Hopefully, and maybe, the Element of Style and the Fowler book suggested by @Cerberus will help a bit and ease my fear of writing

My biggest issue is bad grammar. I did not have a good experience learning grammar or composition growing up. I remember asked too many questions about why and how grammar works the way they do... I would like to hear some suggestions.

@Cerberus cool, i will check that out

apparently its more about the 'style' of writing great, or something. I was having a hard time following through

trying to now improve my english since I neglected it when I was younger. Got any recommendations?? haha

I found it very boring and didnt help me at all...

@Cerberus is it poorly written? It was recommended by the writer center mentors at my college.

hello @Cerberus

Has anybody read through the Strunk and White’s Elements of Style book cover to cover?

@MattЭллен haha hello matt

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