Write In Style

This handbook of writing techniques covers the basics of grammar and provides advice on specific types of writing, including letters, essays, articles, reports, and minutes.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Writing ideas and activities. This online guide offers help in inventing, organizing, revising, and editing essays--of special interest to nonfiction writing students and instructors.

Elements of Style

Offers advice on improving writing skills and promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity.

Cliffsquickreview Writing

Teaches core grammar, usage and style concepts, discussing topics including nouns, verbs, modifiers, common sentence errors, punctuation, jargon, research, and revising.

Kids Write Right?

The author of the adult writing guide Write Right! turns her attention to young writers, offering all the rules and tools needed to choose the right word, craft the perfect sentence, develop a winning style, and outline a paper.

On Writing Well

Warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the fundamentals of conducting interviews and writing travel, scientific, sports, critical, and humorous articles.

Painless Writing

Offers techniques for improving writing style, shows how to create a template that can be used for writing research papers on all subjects, and includes practical exercises.

The Complete Idiot's Guide To Writing A Novel

Drawing on his own personal expertise, as well as insights from such best-selling authors as Janet Evanovich, Peter Straub, and Whitley Streiber, a novelist and editor takes readers through the entire writing process, from developing a style and coming up with ideas, to creating believable settings and characters, to the final editing and rewriting tasks. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The Everything Grammar and Style Book

An ultimate desk reference for honing and enhancing grammar and style skills instructs readers in the fundamentals of good writing, from common grammatical issues to developing a writing style; furnishes guidelines for effective writing; features valuable lists of the most commonly used and misspelled words; and covers e-mail etiquette, figures of speech, and much more.

The Elephant's Of Style

Filled with advice on good writing from the copy chief for the Washington Post, this unique style guide covers a wide range of topics with biting wit, fascinating detours, and a deep insight into the language.

When Good People Write Bad Sentences

An entertaining but practical guide to eliminating poor writing habits draws on the principles of the twelve-step program to identify the most common writing mistakes and explain how to correct them, covering keys aspects of grammar, usage, punctuation, style, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Writing Research Papers Across the Curriculum

Provides advice on choosing a subject, doing research, and writing the paper, according to two widely accepted style manuals.

Writing Skills for the Gre and Gmat Tests

Describes the types of essay questions found on the GRE and GMAT, provides advice on writing issue and argument essays, reviews style and grammar, and offers examples of essays answering questions from the official list for each exam.

Writing That Works:A Practical Guide for Business & Creative People

Covers organization, outlines, editing, style, syntax, grammar, common errors, and business writing.

Writing 101

A selection of 101 invaluable writing tips includes advice on making every line count, avoiding cliches, putting snap into sentences, finding an appropriate writing style, and other easy-to-understand information.

How to Write & Give a Speech

This guide to public speaking offers advice on analyzing one's audience, researching topics, style, diction, organization, humor, and the use of visual aids, and discusses special occasions, impromptu speeches, and introductions.

How Not To Write

In a lighthearted look at the mysteries of the English language, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language" presents fifty witty essays on grammar, usage, and style, covering everything from capitalization and split infinitives to run-on sentences, semi-colons, contractions, the double negative, dangling participles, and onomatopoeia.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style

Provides information on grammatical rules and how to use them, with advice on adding variety to writing, and examples of the right and wrong way to say things.

The Elements of Legal Style

A new edition of the classic in legal writing covers the basics of the field with new examples that illuminate mechanics, word choice, structure, and rhetoric.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Covers quality of content, types of articles, manuscript structure, writing style, grammar, quotations, tables, footnotes, proofreading, and journal policies.

Beyond the Writers' Workshop

Introduces a new approach to the writing of creative nonfiction that integrates principles and techniques from social work, psychotherapy, and neuroscience with traditional teaching to develop a new style of nonfiction writing.