Online Guide to Writing and Research

Appendix A: Books to Help Improve Your Writing

Dictionaries

General Dictionaries

• The American heritage dictionary: College edition. (1994). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

• McCutcheon, M. (1995). Roget’s super thesaurus: The ultimate thesaurus and word-finder. Cincinnati: F & W Publications.

• Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary: Tenth edition. (1993). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

• Webster’s new world dictionary. (1995). New York: Simon & Schuster.

Special Dictionaries

• Black, H. C. (1991). Black’s law dictionary. (6^th ed.). St. Paul, MN: West Publishing.

• Connors, T. D. (Ed.). (1982). Longman’s dictionary of  mass media and communication. New York:  Longman.

• Harre, R., & Lamb, R. (Eds.). (4^th ed.). (1991). The encyclopedic dictionary of psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms. (1993). (5^th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Mitchell, G. D. (Ed.). (1979). A new dictionary of the social sciences (2^nd ed.). New York: Aldine, Hawthorne.

• Nemmers, E. E. (1997). Dictionary of economics and business: A thousand key terms and people. Totowa, NJ: Sipes Publishing.

• Pfaffenberger, B. (Ed.). (1994). Que’s computer user’s dictionary (5^th ed.). Indianapolis: Que® Corporation.

• South, D. W. (Ed.). (1994). Computer and information science and technology abbreviations andacronyms dictionary. New York: CRC Press.

• Toffler, B., & Imber, J. (1994). Dictionary of marketing terms (2^nd ed.). New York: Barron’s Educational Series.

• Weimer, R. (1996). Webster’s new world dictionary of media and communication. New York: Macmillan Publishing.