Writing Guides

Basic

Albert, T. (2000). The A-Z of medical writing. London: BMJ Books.

Barzun, J. (2001). Simple & direct. 4th ed. New York: Harper Perennial.
Bernstein, T. (1965). The careful writer: A modern guide to English usage. New York: The Free
Press.
Bridges, J. (2011). Shut up & write! Milwaukee, WI: Redbird Studio Press.
Gordon, I. A. (1966). The movement of English prose. London: Longman.
Greenhalgh, T. (2010). How to read a paper: The basics of evidence-based medicine. Oxford:
John Wiley & Sons.
Hall, G. M. (Ed.). (2008). How to write a paper. 4th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Kane, T. S. (1988). The new Oxford guide to writing. New York: Oxford University Press.
McMillan, V. E. (1997). Writing papers in the biological sciences. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford
Books.
Macrorie, K. (1984). Searching writing. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. (2007). Introduction to academic writing. 3rd ed. White Plains, NY:
Pearson Education.
Silva, P. J. (2007). How to write a lot: A practical guide to productive academic writing.
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Strunk, W. & White, E. B. (2000). The elements of style. 50th anniversary ed. New York:
Pearson Education.
Swales, J. M. & Feak, C. B. (2012). Academic writing for graduate students: Essential tasks and
skills. 3rd ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Swales, J.M. & Feak, C. B. (2000). English in today’s research world: A writing guide. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Editing, Proofreading & Revising

Anderson, L. (2006). McGraw-Hill’s proofreading handbook. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill.
Einsohn, A. (2011). The copyeditor’s handbook: A guide for book publishing and corporate
communications. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lanham, R. A. (2007). Revising prose. 5th ed. New York: Pearson Education.
Plotnik, A. (1982). The elements of editing: A modern guide for editors and journalists. New
York: Macmillan.
Ross-Larson, B. (1982). Edit yourself: A manual for everyone who works with words. New York:
W.W. Norton.
Words into type. (1974). 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Grammar & Punctuation

Gordon, K. (1993). The deluxe transitive vampire: The ultimate handbook of grammar for the
innocent, the eager, and the doomed. New York: Pantheon.
Gordon, K. (1993). The new well-tempered sentence: A punctuation handbook for the innocent,
the eager, and the doomed. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Lutz, G. & Stevenson, D. (2010). Writer’s Digest grammar desk reference: The definitive source
for clear and correct writing. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books.
Straus, J. (2008). The blue book of grammar and punctuation: An easy-to-use guide. 10th ed. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Research

Barzun, J. & Graff, H. F. (2004). The modern researcher. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Cengage Learning.
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2008). The craft of research. 3rd ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Budgell, B. S. (2009). Writing a biomedical research paper: A guide to structure and style.
Tokyo: Springer.
Glasman-Deal, H. (2010). Science research writing: For non-native speakers of English.
London: Imperial College Press.
Roberts, C. M. (2010). The dissertation journey: A practical and comprehensive guide to
planning, writing, and defending your dissertation. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Turabian, K. (2010). A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations. 8th ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Abstracts & Literature Reviews

Fink, A. (2014). Conducting research literature reviews: From the internet to paper. Los
Angeles: Sage Publications.
Galvan, J. L. (2013). Writing literature reviews: A guide for students of the social and
behavioral sciences. 5th ed. Glendale, CA: Pyrczak Publishing.
Garrard, J. (2014). Health sciences literature review made easy: The matrix method. 4 ed.
Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Swales, J. M. & Feak, C. B. (2009). Abstracts and the writing of abstracts. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press.

Publishing

Day, R. A. & Gastel, B. (2011). How to write and publish a scientific paper. 7th ed. Santa
Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
Huth, E. J. (1999). Writing and publishing in medicine. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.
Oermann, M. H. (2002). Writing for publication in nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott.