Learn from the masters of writing, suggestions from Andrew Todhunter (my intro of Andrew), session leader at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference:

Guides & References

• Magazine Writing That Sells by Don McKinney
• On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by E.B. White and William Strunk Jr.
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

Examples of fine contemporary non-fiction

• Essays of E. B. White
• Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
• John McPhee
• Tom Wolfe
• Joan Didion
• Michael Herr
• A.J. Liebling
• Hunter S. Thompson