You can learn to write well. Precise Edit's writing guides will teach you how. These guides are practical, not full of useless information. They are written in plain English so you can understand them and apply what you learn. Each resource below meets a specific purpose. Choose the one that works best for you.

Books and services: 300 Days of Better Writing, Which Word Do I Use, Zen Comma, Precise Edit Training Manual, Bang!Writing With Impact,Writing Tips for a Year.

Not sure which resource you need? The free ebook contains 1 article from the Precise Edit Training Manual, 8 days of instruction from 300 Days of Better Writing, 2 articles from Which Word Do I Use?, 1 chapter from Zen Comma, and 5 strategies from Bang! Writing with Impact. (Sample subscriptions to Writing Tips for a Year are available, too! See below.)

300 Days of Better Writing

Learn to write clearly, correctly, and powerfully. Communicate persuasively. Demonstrate your professionalism. Accomplish your communication goals. 

300 Days of Better Writing teaches you to write and edit like a professional—one day at a time. Strategies and techniques are broken down into specific actions, and major concepts are presented as a series of discrete lessons. The topic index and cross-reference guide help you explore broad topics in depth. Use this book to answer the question, What can I do right now to make my writing better?

Purchase the hardcopy (U.S. only) or PDF of 300 Days of Better Writing and receive the FREE PDF of the Precise Edit Training Manual. Use coupon code BETTER300 and get free shipping on the hardcopy.

“Instead of a dry, lifeless grammar instruction book, the guide is intended as a dose of daily advice with enough variety and wisdom to make the tips stick . . . Big words and concepts don’t seem nearly as intimidating when broken down into bite-sized chunks and delivered with accuracy and clarity. You’ll find yourself looking forward to the tips and advice—and grasping the ideas quickly. If you want your writing to grow as you write and learn, this is the book that will carefully lead you, day by day, to improved writing.” -John Upchurch, Amazon Reviewer

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Which Word Do I Use?

A quickie guide to the most confusing word pairs

If you master these words, you will solve most word usage problems. This book does not contain one-sentence definitions. Instead, you get definitions (can't get around that), explanations, guidance on using the words, and examples with discussion. You will learn to use these words so you don't have to look them up, and so you can be confident about your writing.

For just under 2 bucks, you will learn to use these word pairs correctly: accept/except; farther/further; if/whether; because/as; effect/affect; who/that; everybody/every body; although/while; between/among; that/which; was/were; hopeful/hopefully; compose/comprise; i.e./e.g.; like/such as; realize/think/believe/feel; all ready/already; continuous/continual; skim/scan; all right/alright; anxious/eager; lay/lie; less/fewer; in/on; who/whom; good/well; amount of/number of; biannual/biennial.

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Zen Comma

Commas are confusing. Unlike other types of punctuation, they are used in many ways. If you want to write clearly and professionally, you need to use commas correctly. Zen Comma will show you how.

Zen Comma uses examples, instructions, and anecdotes to teach you the 14 major uses for commas and the most common errors. It also contains exercises to help pinpoint the comma rules you need to learn.

Each chapter begins with correct examples, explains the rules for correct usage, covers common errors, and discusses special considerations so you can use commas correctly, intelligently, and conscientiously.

The various koans interspersed throughout the chapters are intended to help you “meditate” on comma concepts. When you understand these koans, you will be able to apply their concepts to your own writing.

Comma topics:

1. Commas in Series
2. Commas when Joining Sentences
3. Commas after Introductory Descriptions
4. Commas with Interjections
5. Commas with Appositives
6. Commas with Side Comments
7. Commas with Names
8. Commas with Therefore, Too, and Other Conjunctive Adverbs
9. Commas with Adjective Pairs
10. Commas with Which and Who
11. Commas with Final Descriptions
12. Commas with Parenthetical Expressions and Absolute Phrases
13. Commas with Dates, Addresses, Ages, and Titles
14. Commas with Quotations
15. Commas with Either…Or and Other Correlative Pairs
16. Commas between Subjects and Predicates
17. Commas between Compound Predicates

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Precise Edit Training Manual

The Precise Edit Training Manual provides comprehensive instruction on the 29 most common editing strategies we use and errors we fix. Each topic is fully explained with examples and strategies for editing and writing. This is the writing guide our editors use. Learn to write and edit like a professional.

"Good advice that many writers should read!" (W.W.)  

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Bang! Writing with Impact

BANG! Writing with Impact is THE guide for writing with impact. Don't waste your time on books that spend pages and pages on how people have used strategies, the reason why impact is important, the history of writing, or similar meaningless information. Bang! is for people who have work to do.

This book tells you how to do exactly what you are trying to do: make your readers pay attention.

Bang! contains over 100 strategies for making an impact with your writing. Each strategy is explained in real terms and demonstrated through examples. How do you want your reader to respond to what you write? How can you get that response? This book shows you how.

"Bang! has been a good read." --D. Dericotte

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Writing Tips for a Year

Receive writing instruction every day for 365 days by e-mail. This daily writing instruction will help you write well and use the English language effectively. These daily tips are not one-sentence "rules," but detailed strategies with instructions and examples. The daily tips are high -quality and practical, designed to help you write better every day.

By receiving one tip at a time, you have the opportunity to study and apply what you learn without being overwhelmed by too much information at once. A little improvement every day results in major improvements over time.

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General terms:
Writing tips, in the form of daily writing tips, will be sent directly to the e-mail you supply during the payment process. You are responsible for ensuring that the e-mail address is accurate and that e-mail sent from us is not blocked by your spam blocker, does not end up in your junk/bulk mailbox, or is otherwise diverted from your inbox. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of service due to interruptions in your e-mail delivery or Internet access or other conditions outside our control that adversely affect your ability to receive these tips, nor will we refund all or part of the cost for this service for any reason provided that we deliver the service requested. Upon request, and at our discretion, we may provide you with tips that were not received due to conditions outside your control. If such a case exists, you may e-mail us to explain the condition and request alternative delivery of the missed daily tips. However, our responsibility is limited to sending 365 writing tips, described above, one per day, to the e-mail address you initially provide.

Additional terms for bulk subscriptions:
Each e-mail address provided by the subscribing organization will be considered a unique subscriber. Subscriptions may not be traded, exchanged, or replaced. Each subscriber will begin receiving these daily writing tips from the beginning of the series, regardless of when his or her subscription is activated. Additional subscriptions will be billed at the rate of the initial bulk subscription unless provided in such quantity as to be eligible for a lower rate. The rate for the initial bulk subscription will remain unchanged.