Writing Resources

Research and Writing

Ballenger, Bruce P. The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.

Goldenberg, Phyllis. A Student Guide to Writing a Research Paper: A Step-by-Step Approach. New York:   Sadlier-Oxford, 1997.

Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide. New York: Longman, 1999.

Northey, Margot. Making Sense in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to Research, Writing and Style. Oxford : Oxford UP, 2001.

Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers: A Brief Handbook. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Roberts, Edgar V. Writing about Literature, 9th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Veit, Richard. Research: The Student's Guide to Writing Research Papers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, sixth ed. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1996.

Zinsser, William. Writing to Learn: How to Write--and Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All. New York: Harper.
 

Excellent Internet Sites on Writing and Research

The Writing Center at Colorado State University

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Strunk's The Elements of Style

OWL: Purdue's On-line Writing Lab

Paradigm On-Line Writing Assistant


Available for you at Miami University

Center for Writing Excellence

Miami University Libraries


Grammar and Style

Hale, Constance. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. New York: Broadway 1999.

O'Connor, Patricia T. Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English.  New York: Putnam, 1996.

Shertzer, Margaret. The Elements of Grammar. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Strunk, William and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan, 1979.

Williams, Joseph M. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 7th Ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.

Common Grammar Mistakes




Creative Writing

Bly, Carol. Beyond the Writers' Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative Nonfiction. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Goldberg, Bonni. Beyond the Words: The Three Untapped Sources of Creative Fulfillment for Writers. New York: Putnam, 2002.

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor, 1995.

McEwan, Christian, and Mark Statman. The Alphabet of Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing. New York: Teachers and Writers.

Morrison, Carol. How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire: Writing Poems from your Life. Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC, 1997.

Murray, John A. The Sierra Club Nature Writing Handbook: A Creative Guide. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.

See, Carolyn. Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. New York: Random House, 2002.

Wolf, Robert. Jump Start: How to Write from Everyday Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.

The Writing Life

Conroy, Frank (ed.). The Eleventh Draft: Caft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. New York: Harper, 1999.

Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. New York: Perrenial, 1999 (reprint edition).

Erdal, Jennie. Ghosting: A Double Life, 2005.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York: Touchstone, 1964.

King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. New York: Scribner, 2000.

Patchett, Ann. Truth and Beauty, 2004.

Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Edited by Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor, 2000.

Sarton, May. A Journal of Solitude. New York: Norton, 1973.

Woolf, Virginia. A Writer's Diary.