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Writing Process

College-Level Writing and Research

Argument Texts Graduate-Level Writing
Style Manuals and Handbooks Readers
Grammar Guides
 
Writing Process
 

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
The Organized Writer: A Brief Rhetoric by Edward Profitt. New York: Mayfield, 1992.
Reading Critically, Writing Well, 4th ed. by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Coope. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Rhetoric: Theory and Practice for Composition by Walter S. Minot Cambridge: Winthrop Publishers, 1981.

Argument Texts

 
The Aims of Argument: A Brief Rhetoric. Timothy W. Crusis and Carolyn E. Channell. Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing, 1998.
Writing Arguments, Concise Edition by John D. Ramage and John C. Bean. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
Style Manuals and Handbooks
The Short Handbook for Writers by Gerald J. Schiffhorst and Donald Pharr. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Word Smart Executive Edition: Words for Suits by Liz Buffa. New York: Random House, 1995.

Grammar Guides

Grammar for Smart People by Barry Tarshis. New York: Pocket Books, 1992.
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams. 5th ed. New York: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc., 1997.
Reviewing Basic Grammar, 4th ed. by Mary Laine Yaber and Robert E. Yaber. New York: Longman, 1997.
The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen E. Gordon. New York: Times Books, 1984.
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O' Connor. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1996.

College-Level Writing and Research

The Elements of Writing about Literature and Film by Elizabeth McMahan, Robert Funk, and Susan Day. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988.
Ideas and Details: A Guide to College Writing by M. Garrett Bauman. 3rd. Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1998.
Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harkack and Eugene Kleppinger. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998.
Perspectives on Academic Writing by Alice Calderonello, Donna Nelson-Beene, and Sue Carter Simmons. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1997.
Sin Boldly! Dr. Dave's Guide to Writing the College Paper by David R. Williams. Cambridge: Perseus, 2000.
Readers
About Language, 5th ed. William H. Roberts and Gregoire Turgeon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
Dreams and Inward Journeys, 3rd ed. by Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford. New York: Addison Wesley, 1998.
Experiences: The Reader for Developing Writers by John C. Lovas. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
Our Times, Readings from Recent Periodicals, 5th ed. by Robert Atwan. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998.
Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, 3rd ed. by David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford Books, 1993.
War of Words: The Censorship Debate by George Beahm. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993.
Writing Through Literature by Linda Anstendig and David Hicks. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996.