Workshop references
References for the session this week with Engineers for the 21st Century run by Forum for the Future:
Style guides:
The Guardian’s style guide is downloadable from here: Guardian style guide PDF July 2004.
The Economist’s is online here.
I also mentioned Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007 to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg – Other) as a resource for anyone doing presentations and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life for general writing advice.
For people looking for some exercises to warm up writing muscles, I’ve just come across this useful website: one word – a sort of Writing Down the Bones on speed.