Writing Practice
Academic Writing
Paragraph/ Sentence Structure and Revision
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Citations
- 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