Writing Practice

• Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
• Peter Elbow, Writing without Teachers, Writing with Power
• Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
• Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• Linda Trichner Metcalf and Tobin Simon, Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice
• Theo Pauline Nestor, Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can Too) 
• Mary Pipher, Writing to Change the World
• Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake

Academic Writing

• Wayne Booth, Gregory Columb, and Joseph Williams, The Craft of Research
• Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say / I Say
• John Ramage, John Bean, and June Johnson, The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing
• John Trimble, Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing

Paragraph/ Sentence Structure and Revision

• Theresa Ferster Glazier, The Least You Should Know about English
• Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax or Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch
• William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style

Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Citations

• American Psychological Association, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
• Joseph Gilbaldi, editor, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
• Diana Hacker, Rules for Writers or A Pocket Style Manual (most recent edition)
• University of Chicago Press Staff, The Chicago Manual of Style