The author of this essay is also the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/cgel/
Unfortunately, the author doesn't recommend a good alternative to Strunk & White's Elements of Style.
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/cgel/
Unfortunately, the author doesn't recommend a good alternative to Strunk & White's Elements of Style.
Style: Lessons In Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams http://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-10th/dp/02...
This book is a simple, step by step guide to making you a better writer. By chapter 2 you're already writing much clearer prose. It's one of those books you want to read every couple of years.
I'd also recommend the essay "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell:
He says that grammar can't be reduced to a bunch of trivial rules, but that doesn't mean there can't be a good alternative to Strunk & White for teaching grammar to students.
The first recommendation I ever saw for Williams's book, FWIW, was from Richard Gabriel (founder of Lucid Inc., author of the paper commonly but misleadingly known as "worse is better" and of "Patterns of Software", and these days concentrating on poetry rather than software).