Helpful Writing Guides for Research Students and Academics

In today’s post we are sharing with you this collection of some excellent guides to help you with the teaching of writing and help your students improve their writing style. The collection comprises several classic titles and seminal works as recommended by Paul Silvia in his popular book ‘How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing”. We have arranged these resources into the following categories: the essentials, books on style, books on grammar and punctuation, books on academic writing. And for those of you working or planning to work on a thesis or dissertation check out this list of resources.

The Essentials

1- Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition Infographics, by Merriam-Webster

2- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr and E. B. White

3- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinsser.

4- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, by American Psychological Association.

Books on Grammar and Punctuation

1- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss

2- The Transitive Vampire: a Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

3- The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

4- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose, by Constance Hale

Books on Style

1- Junk English, by Ken Smith

2- Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print–and How to Avoid Them, by Bill Walsh

3- The Practical Stylist: The Classic Guide to Style, by Sheridan Baker