The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Stephen Pinker 

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"People know how to talk in more or less the same way that spiders know how to spin webs.”

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"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff

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" ... writing well means entering a conversation summarizing others ("they say") to set up one's own arguemnts ("I say")."

Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword

 

"At every turn, we found our desire to learn thwarted by gratuitous educational jargon and serpentine syntax"

New Oxford Style Manual

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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler