I once* wrote a whitepaper that was horrible. My boss at the time urged me to get a copy of elements of style, skim it, then try to fix the paper.<p>Section II (looking at my copy in front of me), which discusses composition, was most useful as my paper was chock-full of techno babble, needless words and lacked consistent design from section to section and paragraph to paragraph.<p>* (this is an exaggeration on the extreme low end :) )