Reference Library
| WRITING AND READING HANDBOOKS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings | Wilhoit | |
A Handbook for Writers | Dorman/Dawe | |
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (2 copies) | Turabian | |
A Short Guide to Writing | Lynn | |
A Short Handbook and Style Sheet | Pinney | |
A Writer Teaches Writing | Murray | |
A Writer’s Handbook from A to Z | Gorrell | |
A Writer’s Reference | Hacker | |
A Writer’s Reference | Hacker | |
Bedford Basics: A workbook for Writers (Third Edition) - 3 Copies | Baker | |
Compact Handbook of College Composition | Brennan | |
CoreText: A Handbook for Writers | Hairston, Ruszkiewicz, & Seward | |
English Mechanics | Schuman/Hart | |
English Review Manual | Gowen | |
Explorations in Basic Writing | Reynolds | Basic grammar book with examples |
Guide to Rapid Revision Workbook | 3rd ed w/ answer key and 2nd ed | Pearlman, Evans, & Clines |
Heath’s College Handbook of Composition | Altizer | |
In Short: A Concise Guide to Good Writing | Middleman | Easy to read/understand book about how to improve writing-first chapter good for explaining why papers should be interesting |
Instructor’s Manual to accompany The Able Writer | Broderick | |
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing | ||
Mark my Words: Instruction & Practice in Proofreading | Smith | |
MLA Handbook 5th ed | Gibaldi | |
Patterns of Exposition 6 | Decker | Examples of specific writing types by famous writers/politicians/etc. |
Preparing for the CLAST with The Bedford Guide for College Writers | Kennedy, Kennedy, Holladay | |
Resources for Research and Documentation Across the Curriculum to Accompany he Bedford Handbook for Writers | Hacker | |
Rules for Writers | Hacker | |
Sentence Skills: A workbook for writers (Form A) | Langan | |
Sentence Skills: A workbook for writers (Form B) | Langan | |
Shaping Sentences | Tollefson | |
Short English Handbook | Fear /Schiffhorst | |
Strategies for Academic Writing: A Guide for College Students | Hashimoto, Kroll & Schafer | |
Structuring Paragraphs | Parks/Levernier/Hollowell | |
Style | Williams | |
Style: A Pragmatic Approach | Richardson | |
Supplemental Exercises for The Bedford Handbook for Writers | Hacker | |
Supplemental Exercises for The Bedford Handbook for Writers (Third Edition) | Hacker | |
The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook | Kennedy, Kennedy, Holladay | |
The Bedford Handbook for Writers (Fourth Edition) | Stone & Bell | |
The Bedford Handbook for Writers: Supplemental Exercises | Hacker | 2 copies |
The Borzoi Handbook for Writers | Crews/Schor | |
The Complete Bedford Guide for College Writers | Kennedy, Kennedy & Holladay | |
The Elements of Style | Strunk & White | |
The Essentials of English | Hogue | |
The Harper Collins Concise Handbook for Writers | Adams | |
The HarperCollins Concise Handbook for Writers | Adams & Tickle | Instructor’s Annotated Edition |
The Little Brown Handbook | Fowler, Aaron, Brittenham | |
The Little Brown Workbook | Gorrell | |
The Little, Brown Handbook 3rd Edition | Fowler | |
The Little, Brown Handbook: 6th Edition | Fowler, Aaron & Tarvers | Instructor’s Annotated Edition |
The Practical Stylist | Baker | |
The Scribner Handbook for Writers | DiYanni, Hoy | |
The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing | Axelrod & Cooper | Writing/grammar book with detailed explanations of concepts |
The Student Writer: Editor and Critic | Clouse | Basic writing book, includes good information followed by examples in each chapter; good topics are “Description” and “Illustration” |
The Style Booklet | Sonstroem | Basic grammar book from the perspective of style |
The Technique of Clear Writing, Rev. Ed. | Gunning | |
The Versatile Writer | Stewart | Writing book with detailed explanations of concepts |
The Wadsworth English Essentials Kit | Guth | |
The Writer’s Choices | Woodman & Adler | |
The Writer’s Handbook | Lefcowitz | |
The Writer’s Rhetoric and Handbook | McMahan & Day | |
The Writer’s Toolbox | Brown, Mittan & Roen | |
The Writer’s Workbook | Day | Basic writing/grammar book with examples |
Van Nostrand’s Plain English Handbook | Lindberg/Walsh | |
Writer’s Handbook | Flynn & Glaser | |
Writing As Thinking | Jacobus | |
Writing Skills | Underwood & Kett | Basic writing/grammar book with examples |
Writing Skills Handbook 2nd Edition | Bazerman/Wiener | |
Writing Step By Step: Easy Strategies for Writing and Revising | DeBeaugrande | Basic grammar book, has lots of examples for students to work through-good for ESL students? |
Gowen | ||
| WRITING THEORY | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
An Intro to Critical Discourses | ||
Computers in Applied Linguistics | Pennington & Stevens | |
WAC for the New Millennium | McLeod, et al. | |
Bazerman | ||
| LITERATURE | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Short Guide to Writing About Literature | Barnet | |
Literature and the Writing Process | McMahan, Day, Funk | |
Literature: The Human Experience | Abcarian, Klotz | |
MacAllister | ||
| TECHNICAL & PROFESSIONAL WRITING | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
English for Science and Technology | Trimble | |
Handbook of Technical Writing | Brusaw, Alred, & Oliu | |
Instructor’s Manual with Transparency Masters to accompany Technical Writing | Lannon | |
Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age | Hacker | |
Science and Technical Writing (2nd Edition) | Rubens, Philip | |
Science and Technology Today | MacKenzie | |
Scientists Must Write | Barrass | 3 copies |
The Business Writer’s Handbook | Brusaw, Alred, & Oliu | |
The Complete Book of Contemporary Business Letters | Ed; Stephen P. Elliott | |
Tools for Technical and Professional Communication | Bell | |
Boiarsky, Soven | ||
| ARGUMENT | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Rulebook for Arguments | Weston | |
Arguing in Communities | Hatch | |
Current Issues and Enduring Questions: Methods and Models of Argument from Plato to the Present | Barnett & Bedau | Instructor’s Edition |
Elements of Argument | Rottenberg | |
Everyday Arguments | Mayberry | |
Everything’s an Argument | Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz | |
The Elements of Reasoning | Conway, Munson | |
Burton, McDonald | ||
| SPEECH | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
G.I.F.T.S. to accompany Principles of Speech Communication | Zeuschner | |
How to Design and Deliver a Speech | Fletcher | |
Instructor’s Resource Guide to accompany Principles of Speech Communication | German | |
Principles of Speech Communication | Gronbeck, German, Ehninger, Monroe | |
Speakers Apprehension Video | German | |
The Speech Writer’s Workshop | -- | |
Copeland & Lamm | ||
| MULTIMEDIA | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
Basics of Video Production | Lyver & Swainson | |
Designer’s Guide to the Internet | Zender, Fine, & Albertson | |
Dynamics in Document Design | Schriver, Karen | |
Envisioning Information | Tufte | |
Getting the Picture: Guide to Understanding Visual Texts | Muth, Kitalong | |
HTML for Dummies | Tittel and James | |
Mayfeild’s Quick View Guide to the Internet for Students of English | Campbell, Keene | Two copies |
Strategies for Writing with the Computer | Barth | |
Using Microsoft Word 97 | Manual | |
Tufte | ||
| WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Pocket Guide to Writing History | Rampolla | |
A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry | Beall, Trimbur | |
A Short Guide to Writing About History | Marius | |
A Short Guide to Writing about Social Science | Cuba | |
Academic Writing for Graduate Students (3 copies) | Swales & Feak | |
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers | McCarthy | |
Grant Proposal Guide | NSF | 1997 |
Pulitzer Prize Editorials | Sloan, Anderson | |
The "How To" Grants Manual | Bauer | |
Writing for Social Scientists | Becker | |
Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences | McMillan | |
Seech | ||
| TUTORING AND REVISING | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice | Barnett and Blumner | |
Defining the tutor’s role and responsibilities in the triangular relationship of student, professor, and tutor (packet) | Suffredini | |
One to One: Resources for Conference-Centered Writing 5th ed | Dawe and Dornan | |
Sharing and Responding | Elbow & Belanoff | |
Spilling the Beans: A Decade of Consultant Lore in the Coe Writing Center | Libby | |
Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference | Harris | |
The Practical Tutor | Meyer and Smith | |
The road to hell is paved with good intentions: The effects of mandatory center visits on student and tutor attitudes (packet) | Bell and Stutts | |
The St Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors (2nd Edition) | Murphy, Sherwood, and Sherwood | |
The Writing Laboratory: Organization, Management, and Methods | Steward and Croft | |
Olson | ||
| DICTIONARIES | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
Cassell’s New Compact French Dictionary | Douglas, Girard, & Thompson | |
Stenesh | Weik | |
Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2nd ed | Stenesh | |
Dictionary of Mathematics Terms, second ed | Downing | |
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 26th ed | ||
Everitt | ||
| SUBJECT TEXTS | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues | Pickering and Owen | |
Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy | Slade | |
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes Second Edition | Felder and Rousseau | |
Middlemarch | Elliott | 1st & 2nd Editions |
The Cell: A Molecular Approach, 2nd ed | Cooper | |
| JOURNALS | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Directory of Scholarly Journals in English and Literature | Lee and Johnson | |
Civil Engineering / Sept. 1999 | ||
College Composition and Communication (CCC) / Dec ’82 (3 Copies); Feb ’91 (2 Copies); Oct ’93 (2 Copies); Feb ’94 (2 Copies); June ’99 | ||
College English /Jan ’98 - Sept ’01 | ||
Computers & Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing/4 Issues ’01 | ||
Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature | ||
Cooperative Learning & College Teaching /Winter-Spring ’97 | ||
Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC) / Winter ’93 (3 Copies); Fall ’94; Spring ’95 (2 Copies); Spring ’97; Fall ’97 (3 Copies); Fall ’98; Winter ‘98 | ||
Journal of American Water Works Association /One Copy - Aug. 1999 | ||
Journal of New England Water Works Association /One Copy - March 1999 | ||
Journal of Teaching Writing/ Spring ’82; Spring ’84 (2 Copies); Fall ’87; Fall ’89 (2 Copies) | ||
Modern Steel Construction /One Copy - Sept. 1999/ | ||
Rhetoric Review/ Fall-Spring ’90 | ||
The Workshop Project Newsletter Winter-Summer ’01 | ||
The Writing Center Journal Fall 2003 | ||
The Writing Lab Newsletter /Apr ’97 - Jun ’02 / Mar ‘04 | ||
Writing Program Administration (WPA) Fall/winter ’88 (5 Copies) | ||
| WRITING TEXTBOOKS | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
A Community of Writers | Elbow & Belanoff | |
A Short Course in Writing 3rd Edition | Bruffee | |
A Short Course in Writing: Composition, Collaborative Learning, and Constructive Reading, 4th Ed. | Bruffee | Writing book with subjects including: peer tutoring, constructive reading, writing position papers, writing research reports, and discourse communities |
A Writer’s Reader | Hall, Emblen | |
America Now | Atwan | |
America Now | Robert Atwam | |
Basic College Writing | Kirszner & Mandell | |
Creating Compositions | Wiener | |
Developing Reading Skills | Markstein, Hirasawa | |
Focus on Grammar | Maurer | |
Gateway | Fox | |
Instructor’s Manual to acc. The Writer’s Options, 5th Ed. | Dobson | Answer book for The Writer’s Options |
Reading Culture | George/Trimbur | |
Reading Culture (Second Edition) | George, Trimbur | |
Reading Culture (Third Edition) - 2 Copies | George, Trimbur | |
Reading First | Robertshaw, Hamblen, Alt | |
Rhetorical Grammar | Kollin | |
Shaping College Writing | Gallo, Rink | |
Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lay | Lederrer/Dowis | |
The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing | Bizzell & Herzberg | |
The Borzoi Practice Book for Writers | Hennesy | |
The Practice of Writing, 2nd Ed. | Soholes & Comley | Textbook on how to use writing for various purposes: reflection, direction, persuasion, organization, arguing, and analysis |
The Random House Guide to Basic Writing | Schor & Fishman | Basic grammar/writing book, Part 5 contains useful info about writing research papers, resumes, and exams |
The Sampler: Patterns for Composition | Baker & Philips | |
The Short Prose Reader | Muller & Wiener | |
The Writer’s Options: Combining to Composing, 5th Ed. | Daiker, Kerek, Morenburg, & Sommers | Basic grammar/writing book with examples |
The Writer’s Way | Rawlins | Basic writing/grammar book with examples; guide for specific types of writing: assignments, tests, research papers** |
Transitions from Reading to Writing | Clouse | |
Voices and Visions: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing | Meyer & Mylan | |
Ways of Reading (fourth Edition) | Bartholomae and Petrosky | |
Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers (Second Edition) | Bartholomae and Petrosky | |
Working World | Baskin, Morton | |
Write to Learn | Murray | |
Warnock | ||
| DOCUMENTATION | ||
| Type and Title | Author | Notes |
Mastering APA Style: Students workbook and training guide (2nd edition) | Gelfand and Walker | |
The Essentials of MLA Style: A Guide to Documentation for Writers of Research Papers | Trimmer | |
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers (6th edition) | Huth, Edward | Biology Documentation |
Questions and Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community | NACS and AAP | |
The Chicago Manual of Style | 14th Edition | |
The ACS Style Guide | Dodd | |
Keys for Writers | Raimes | |
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th ed | ||
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