Liberal Arts - English Subject Guide

Rhetoric & academic writing style guides

• A pocket style manual (2012)
• A writer's reference (2011)
• Pocket keys for writers (2010)
• Seeing & writing 4 (2010)
• Reading critically, writing well : a reader and guide (2008)
• The elements of style (2007)

Persuasion & argument

• Good reasons with contemporary arguments (2012)
• Critical thinking, reading, and writing : a brief guide to argument (2008)
• The aims of argument : a brief guide (2003)
• Effective argument : a writer (1998)

Grammar

• A commonsense guide to grammar and usage (2009)
• Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero toleration approach to punctuation (2008)
• Nitty gritty grammar : sentence essentials for writers (2006)
• How not to write : an office primer for the grammatically perplexed (2005)
• Read, write, edit : grammar for college writers (2005)
• Woe is I : the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English (2003)

MLA citations

• MLA handbook for writers of research papers (2009)
• A guide to MLA documentation : with an appendix on APA style (2004)

Writing about art

• A short guide to writing about art (2011)
• What makes a masterpiece : artists, writers and curators on the world's greatest works of art (2010)
• Writing about art (2009)
• Thinking and writing about art history (2004)
• Writing the artist statement : revealing the true spirit of your work (2002)
• Writing for the visual arts (2001)

Non-fiction writing

• On writing well : the classic guide to writing nonfiction (2006)
• Short takes : brief encounters with contemporary nonfiction (2005)
• The fourth genre : contemporary writers of/on creative nonfiction (1999)
• Writing for story : craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1994)

Journalism

• Advancing the story : broadcast journalism in a multimedia world (2012)
• Telling true stories : a nonfiction writers' guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (2007)
• Working with words : a handbook for media writers and editors (2006)
• Interviewing : a guide for journalists and writers (2002)

Fiction & creative writing

• Writing fiction : a guide to narrative craft (2011)
• Creative writing : four genres in brief (2008)
• What if? Writing exercises for fiction writers (2004)
• The discovery of poetry: a field guide to reading and writing poems (2001)
• The key : how to write damn good fiction using the power of myth (2000)
• The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers (1991)

• Inspiring writing in art and design taking a line for a write (2009)
• Writing on drawing: essays on drawing practice and research (2008)
• When writing met art: from symbol to story (2007)
• Journalism: a critical history (2004)
• Persuasion & rhetoric (2004)
• Publishing confidential: the insider's guide to what it really takes to land a nonfiction book deal (2004)
• JournoLISTS: 201 ways to improve your journalism (2001)
• The magazines handbook (2000)
• The narrative reader (2000)