Some Print Sources for Your Professional Library: Writing Sources

 

Style

Williams, Joseph M., Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 6th (Boston: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 2000).

Longknife, Ann and K. D. Sullivan, The Art of Styling Sentences, 4th (Hauppauge, New York: Barron's Educational Series, 2002).

Writing

Cheney, Theodore A. Rees, Writing Creative Nonfiction: Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction (Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 2001).

Josephson, Judith Pinkerton and Edith Hope Fine, More Nitty-Gritty Grammar, A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication (Berkeley, California:Ten Speed Press, 2001).

Lederer, Richard and Richard Dowis, Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).

McQuain, Jeffrey, Power Language: The Essential Guide to Better Writing and Stronger Speaking (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996).

Walsh, Bill, The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).

Zinsser, William K., On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001).

Revising

Lanham, Richard A., Revising Prose, 4th (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2001).

Language Fun

Elster, Charles Harrington, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Ultimate Opinionated Guide for the Well-Spoken ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999).

Lederer, Richard, Fractured English: A Pleasury of Bloopers and Blunders, Fluffs and Flubs, and Gaffes and Goofs (New York: Pocket Books, 1996).

Lederer, Richard, Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language (New York: Pocket Books, 1998).

Truss, Lynne, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, (New York: Gotham Books, (2004).

 

 
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