Online Guide to Writing and Research

Appendix A: Books to Help Improve Your Writing

Writing Handbooks

• Alred, G., Oliu, W., & Brusaw, C. (1992). The professional writer. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

• Cook, C. K. (1987). Line by line: the MLA’s guide to improving your writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

• Damer, T. E. (1995). Attacking faulty reasoning: A practical guide to fallacy-free argument (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

• Diamond, H. (1989). Barron’s grammar in plain English (2nd ed.). New York: Barron's Educational Series.

• Fahnestock, J., Secor, M. (1982). A rhetoric of argument. New York: Random House.

• Feldman, R. (1993). Reason and argument. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

• Fiske, R. H. (1989). Webster’s new world guide to concise writing. New York: Webster’s New World.

• Gordon, K. (1993) The deluxe transitive vampire. New York: Times Books.

• Gordon, K. (1993). The new well-tempered sentence. New York: Ticknor & Fields.

• Gunning, R., & Kallan, R. (1994). How to take the fog out of business writing. Chicago: Dartnell.

• Hacker, D. (1999). A writer’s reference (4th ed.). Boston: St. Martin’s Press.

• Kennedy, X. J., Kennedy, D. M., & Holladay, S. A. (1999). The Bedford guide for college writers (5th ed.). Boston: St. Martin’s Press.

• Langan, J. (1992). College writing skills (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Leggett, G., Mead, C. D., & Kramer, M. G. (1994). The Prentice-Hall handbook for writers (12th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

• Newby, R. (1987). The structure of English: A handbook of English grammar. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Pinckert, R. C. (1991). Pinckert’s practical grammar: A lively, unintimidating guide to usage, punctuation, and style. Cincinnati: F & W Publications.

• Sabin, W. A. (1996). The Gregg reference manual (8th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.

• Safire, W. (1990). Fumblerules. New York: Doubleday.

• Scherga, M. (1991). Practical English writing skills. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company.

• Sorenson, S. (1997). Webster’s new world student writing handbook. New York: Macmillan Publishing

• Waddell, M. L., Esch, R. M., Walker, R. R. (1993). The art of styling sentences: 20 patterns for success (3rd ed.). New York: Barron’s Educational Series.

• Zinsser, W. (1998). On writing well: An informal guide to writing nonfiction (6th ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

• Zinsser, W. (1989). Writing to learn: How to write and think clearly about any subject at all. New York: Harper & Row.

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.

General Style Manuals

• American national standard for bibliographic references. (1977). New York: American National Standards Institute.

• Gibaldi, J. (1995). MLA handbook for writers of research papers (4^th ed.). New York: The Modern Language Association.

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4^th ed.). (1994). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

• The Chicago manual of style (14^th ed.). (1993). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

• U.S. Government Printing Office style manual (Rev. ed.). (1984). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

• Winkler, A. C., & McCuen, J. R. (1994). Writing the research paper: A handbook with both the MLA and APA documentation styles. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Company.

Special Style Manuals

Behavioral and Social Sciences

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (5^th ed.). (2001). Washington, D.C.: American PsychologicalAssociation.

• The Chicago manual of style (14^th ed.). (1993). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Biology

• CBE style manual: A guide for authors, editors, and publishers in the biological sciences (5^th ed.). (1983). Bethesda, MD: Council of Biology Editors.

Chemistry

• Handbook for authors of papers in American Chemical Society publications. (1978). Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.

English and Communication Studies

• Gibaldi, J. (1999). MLA handbook for writers of research papers (5^th ed.). New York: The Modern Language Association.

• Winkler, A. C., McCuen, J. R. (1994). Writing the research paper: A handbook with both the MLA and APA documentation styles. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Company.

Journalism

• French, C. W. (Ed.). (1996). The Associated Press stylebook and libel manual (6^th ed.). New York: Addison-Wesley Publications.

Law and Paralegal Studies

• The bluebook: A uniform system of citation (15^th ed.). (1991). Cambridge: The Harvard Law ReviewAssociation.

Mathematics

• A manual for authors of mathematical papers(7^th ed.). (1980). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.

Physics

• American Institutes of Physics. (1978). Style manual for guidance in the preparation of papers (3^rd ed.). New York: American Institutes of Physics.

Science

• American national standard for the preparation of scientific papers for written or oral presentation. (1979). New York: American National Standards Institute.

Graphics

• Tufte, E. R. (1983). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

• Tufte, E. R. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

• Tufte, E. R. (1997). Visual explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Researching on the Internet

• Ackermann, E., & Hartman, K. (1997). Searching and researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. New York: Bantam/Franklin Square Press.

• Maloy, T. K. (1996). The Internet research guide: A concise, friendly, and practical handbook for anyone researching in the wide world of cyberspace. New York: Allworth Publishing.

• Rowland, R., & Kinnaman, D. (1995). Researching on the Internet: The complete guide to organizing, searching, and qualifying. New York: Berkley Group/Prime Publishing.