RE: Communication books for a soon-to-be college grad

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Rob Hudson wrote:

> What do you consider "essential" references? That's a good question as
> well. I've got my Chicago but could use some more style guides.
> Always, more style guides.

Well, in principle, I agree. I prefer knowing more to knowing less and
owning more books to owning fewer. But in practice, when you put
multiple style guides to use, you end up with multiple conflicting
answers to your questions. 

Which puts you right back in the position of having to decide for
yourself. Which, come to think of it, some of us rather like. :-)

	The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them
to choose from.  
	-- Andrew Tanenbaum

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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