Resources for writers

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I’ve kept this list short to avoid overwhelming you with advice. But feel free to ask me about publications and websites that might address your particular concerns.

For everyone Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary; Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage; Purdue Online Writing Lab; Anne Curzan, English Grammar Boot Camp (Great Courses video series); Christine A. Lindberg, comp., Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus

For scholars Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (based on The Chicago Manual of Style); Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers, Rules for Writers; APA Style; Beth Luey, Handbook for Academic Authors and Revising Your Dissertation

For technical writers and instructional designers Thomas T. Barker, Writing Software Documentation: A Task-Oriented Approach; Microsoft Writing Style Guide; Chuck Hodell, ISD from the Ground Up: A No-Nonsense Approach to Instructional Design; Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction; John R. Kohl, The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market; W3C Manual of Style; Inclusive Naming Initiative

For independent authors Jane Friedman, The Business of Being a Writer; Patricia T. O’Conner, Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English; Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed; Rennie Brown and Dave King, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers