I mentioned the AP Style Guide in a previous post, but honestly, knowledge is power and the more references you have at your disposal the better prepared you are. (If you use them, that is.)

The Economist Style guide is based on the style book given to all journalists at the Economist magazine, and is a great source of information if you’re looking to produce some very concise articles or just improve your writing skills in general. The guide covers topics ranging from metaphors and jargon to common spelling problems and pluralization in an easy to navigate format, with definitions that are far simpler to understand than the ones I remember from my high school textbooks.

If you just have to have your reference books on the desktop next to you, the economist has a bound version of the guide available for purchase on the same page.

I’ll post more tools like this as I find them. I hope that it helps your writing!