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Listed below are books that will assist you with grammar, punctuations, and other elements of writing. To find out more about any of the books listed, just click on the book title. Some books are also available at WSU Libraries.     

 

Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills: A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English 2nd Edition by John M. Swales and Christine A. Beer Feak also available at WSU Libraries:

PE 1478 .S87 1994 

Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing by K. Hyland

Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Grammatically Correct: The Writer's Essential Guide to Punctuation, Spelling, Style, Usage and Grammar by Anne Stilman also available at WSU Libraries: PE 1112. S748 1997

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia also available at WSU Libraries: PE 1408 .S48787 2007 

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and  E.B. White also available at WSU Libraries: PE 1408. S772 2000

The Modern Researcher 6th Edition by Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff 5th Edition available at WSU Libraries:

 D 13 .B334 1992

They Say/ I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

Research Genres: Explorations and Applications by John M. Swales also available at WSU Libraries:

 PE 1128 .A2 S94 2004

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English 2nd Edition by Patricia T. O'Connor also available at WSU Libraries: PE 1112. O28 1996

Writing: Texts: Processes, and Practices edited by C. Candlin and K. Hyland

 

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