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Additional helpful information for business and technical writers can be found in such definitive resources as: The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, edited by Norm Goldstein (1998) The Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth Edition (2003) The Columbia Guide to Online Style, Second Edition, by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, Columbia University Press (2006) A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner, Oxford University Press (1998) The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr., Third Edition The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition (2000) The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition (2001) 1001 Commonly Misspelled Words: What Your Spell Checker Won't Tell You (2000)