 | The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk Jr.
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.36 No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume [$15.72]
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 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.08 this spirited and wittily instruc¬tional little volume, . . . is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation." Her approach falls between the descriptive and prescriptive schools of grammar study [$8.25]
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 | The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English by Bill Walsh
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.95 Walsh addresses the dozen or so biggest issues that every writer or editor must master.[$10.17]
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 | The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 rescues punctuation from the perils of boredom, with wholly original explanations of the rules of punctuation, whimsical graphics [$8.50]
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 | A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Kate L. Turabian
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $10.00 Just in case your theses were not bound to this suffocating Chicago Guide for Writing, Editing, and Publishing encyclopedae of do's & don't's:
Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. [[$11.56]
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 | Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Charles Lipson
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $6.00 A welcome short-cut companion to Turabian:
explains the reasons it is so important to use citationsand to present them accuratelyin research writing. [$8.00]
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 | Doing Honest Work in College: How to Prepare Citations, Avoid Plagiarism, and Achieve Real Academic Success by Charles Lipson
Buy used from: $0.01 With the spread of Academic cheating, particularly in the MBA programs, this is absolutely essential. I once gave an "A" to a submitted paper for content, and demoted it to a "F" for a lack of punctuation: "Quotation Marks," see below:
"Refreshingly entertaining, non-preachy, and practical: it gives students useful strategies for citing both published and Web-based work correctly." [$10.40]
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 | On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.00 he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. [$10.17]
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 | The Use and Misuse of Language, Selected Essays from A Review of General Semantics
Buy used from: $1.55 addressed to all who want a better understanding of what they hear and read and of what they themselves say. [$0.99]
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