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Dreyer's English An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Benjamin Dreyer

NEW YORK TIMES We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.

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It was initially intended to share copyediting tips and tricks, but expanded into a personal reflection on prose and the nature of writing. It unexpectedly became a New York Times bestseller.

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It started out as my desire simply to share the weaponry that I had built up over the years as a copy chief and as a copy editor.

— Episode: The Laws of Language (with Benjamin Drey...

Episode: The Laws of Language (with Benjamin Dreyer)

It was initially intended to share copyediting tips and tricks, but expanded into a personal reflection on prose and the nature of writing. It unexpectedly became a New York Times bestseller.

"

It started out as my desire simply to share the weaponry that I had built up over the years as a copy chief and as a copy editor.

And basically, it was also about scratching an itch that had gone dormant for decades, the itch to want to write something.

And then I fell back on the, well, write what you know. And what I know is copy editing.

It assembled itself.

It happened and it took me a very long time of very consciously trying to get everything right.

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