Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Reference Materials
Style manuals appropriate for your field of research and work
The reference books are generally the most comprehensive and useful (most of them are in the UT library). However, I have listed some online resources for your convenience.
- Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition)
- Questions and Answers from APA.org
- Citing electronic sources: Bedford
- The Modern Language Association style guide
- AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style
- ASA (American Sociological Association) Style
- CBE (Council of Biological Editors) Style at Council of Science Editors Website
- National library of Medicine Guidelines
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Dictionary of American Regional English
Other on-line resources
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Using English for Academic Purposes by Andy Gillett
- The Write Place
- Cliche Finder
- Writing Essentials Online by Dawn Rodrigues and Myron C. Tuman
- Features of Academic Writing by Monash University
Books for Writing and Style
Keene, M. L., & Adams, K. H. (2002). Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writers, 3rd Edition. New york: McGraw Hill.
Lundsford, A. A. (2005). The Everyday Writer. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.
Raimes, A. (2002). Keys for Writers. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
This is a great general writing resource that covers aspects of the writing process as well as style and usage.
Spears, R.A. (1997). NTC's dictionary of phrasal verbs and other idiomatic verbal phrases.
Lincolnwood: National Textbook Company.
Swales, J.M. and Feak, C.B (1996). Academic writing for graduate students: A course for nonnative speakers of English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Swales, J. M., & C. B. Feak. (2000). English in Today's Research World: A Writing Guide.
Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
Williams, J. (2002). Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace. New York: Longman.
This is a style manual only. If you feel you need to spend more time refining your English style (clarity of expression, word usage, appropriate register, etc), then I would strongly encourage you to examine this book.
Web Resources
- Academic Writing: A very comprehensive and extremely useful site developed by Andy Gillett at University of Hertfordshire.
- Center for Academic Writing at Central European University
- Monash University's Writing Center
- Dartmouth: Composing a paper
- Basic Guide to Writing an essay
- UCSC: How to write research
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab
- WSU: Editing and errors
- Strunk and White's Elements of Style
- American Heritage Book of English Usage
- Bedford St. Martin's Online Citation Guide
- University of Wisconsin Writing Center
