Writing

 

General

Bryan Garner, Garner’s Modern American Usage

Keith Hjortshoj, The Transition to College Writing

Martha Kolln and Robert Funk, Understanding English Grammar

Joseph P. Williams, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace

 

Rhetoric and Composition

Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition

Thomas Farrell, Norms of Rhetorical Culture

 

Creative Writing

Judson Jerome, The Poet’s Handbook

Stephen King, On Writing

Stephen Koch, The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

Phillip Lopate, ed., The Art of the Personal Essay

Frances Mayes, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

 

Popular Linguistics

Bill Bryson, Mother Tongue: The English Language

Bill Bryson, Made in America

Robert McCrum, et al, The Story of English

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct

Steven Pinker, Words and Rules