Writing Center
Hard Copy Resources
The Writing Center has a variety of sources available to help students and faculty at all stages of the writing process. Copies of the following books are available on the fourth floor of Barney-Davis.
Writing
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Bazerman, Charles, and Harvey S. Wiener. Writing Skills Handbook. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979.
Bazerman, Charles, and Harvey S. Wiener. Writing Skills Handbook. 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Bullock, Richard. The Norton Field Guide to Writing. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Carter, Bonnie, and Craig Skates. The Rinehart Handbook for Writers (Instructor’s Edition). 2nd ed. Fort Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990.
Crump, Eric, and Nick Carbone. Writing Online: A Student’s Guide to the Internet and World Wide Web. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
Dodds, Jack. The Ready Reference Handbook: Writing, Revising, Editing. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Ede, Lisa. Work in Progress: A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.
Fowler, H. Ramsey, Jane E. Aaron, and Kay Limburg. The Little, Brown Handbook (Instructor’s Annotated Edition). 5th ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
Galica, Gregory S. The Blue Book: A Student’s Guide to Essay Exams. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook for Writers. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford Books-St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Hacker, Diana. Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.
Hacker, Diana. Rules For Writers. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000. (2 copies)
Hairston, Maxine, and John J. Ruszkiewicz. The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1988.
Hairston, Maxine, and John J. Ruszkiewicz. The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers. 4th ed. New York: >Harper Collins College Publishers, 1996.
Harris, Muriel. The Writer’s FAQs: A Pocket Handbook. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Heffernan, James A. W., and John E. Lincoln. Writing: A College Handbook. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
Heffernan, James A. W., and John E. Lincoln. Writing: A College Handbook (Instructor’s Edition). 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1990.
Heffernan, James A. W., and John E. Lincoln. Writing: A Concise Handbook. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997.
Jenkins, Mark. Writing: A Content Approach to ESL Composition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell.The Brief Holt Handbook. Fort Worth, TX: >Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell.The Holt Handbook. 6th ed. Fort Worth, TX: >Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.
LaGuardia, Dolores, and Hans P. Guth. The Access Handbook (Instructor’s Edition). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. (2 copies)
Langan, John. College Writing Skills. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988.
Leggett, Glenn, C. David Mead, and Melinda G. Kramer. Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers. 10th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Lunsford, Andrea A. The Electronic Everyday Writer 3.0. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2006.
Lunsford, Andrea A. The Everyday Writer. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.
Lunsford, Andrea, and Robert Connors. The St. Martin’s Handbook (Annotated Instructor’s Edition). New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Lunsford, Andrea A., Cheryl Glenn, and Alyssa O’Brien. The Everyday Writer (Instructor’s Notes). 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.
Marius, Richard. A Writer’s Companion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Martin, Marlene. Review and Revise. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Miller, Casey, and Kate Swift. The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1980.
Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Modern America. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Murray, Donald M. Write to Learn. 7th ed. Fort Worth, TX: >Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.
Packer, Nancy Huddleston, and John Timpane. Writing Worth Reading: A Practical Guide with Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Papper, Carole Clark, Joel English, Jeff White, and Jamie Miles. Ball Point: The >Ball State University Writing Program Handbook. Needham Heights, MA: Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998.
Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
Rodrigues, Dawn, and Myron C. Tuman. Writing Essentials: A Norton Pocket Guide. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Scholes, Robert, Nancy R. Comley, and Janice Peritz. The Practice of Writing. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.
VanderMey, Randall, Verne Meyer, John Van Rys, Dave Kemper, and Pat Sebranek. The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
VanderMey, Randall, Verne Meyer, John Van Rys, Dave Kemper, and Pat Sebranek. The College Writer: Brief. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
Watkins, Floyd C., and William B. Dillingham. Practical English Handbook (Instructor’s Annotated Edition). 8th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.
Woodman, Leonora, and Thomas P. Adler. The Writer’s Choices. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1985.
Wyrick, Jean. Steps to Writing Well. 8th ed. Fort Worth, TX: >Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.
Wyrick, Jean. Steps to Writing Well: With Additional Readings. 5th ed. Fort Worth, TX: >Harcourt College Publishers, 2002. (2 copies)
Documentation and Style Manuals
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The Chicago Manual of Style. 13th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Clines, Raymond H., and Elizabeth R. Cobb. Research Writing Simplified: A Documentation Guide. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1997.
Davis, James P. The Rowman & Littlefield Guide to Writing with Sources. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Davis, James P. Writing with Sources: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Plagiarism. Granville, OH, 2001. (2 copies)
French, Christopher W., ed. The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: Revised Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1987.
Hacker, Diana. Resources for Research and Documentation Across the Curriculum to Accompany the Bedford Handbook for Writers. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 1994. (2 copies)
Hacker, Diana. Working with Sources: Exercises to Accompany the Bedford Handbook. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006. (3 copies)
Harnack, Andrew, and Eugene Kleppinger. Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.
Jordan, Lewis, ed. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. New York: Times Books, 1976.
Lunsford, Andrea, Robert Connors, and Marcia Muth. The New St. Martin’s Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Palmquist, Mike. The Bedford Researcher. 2nd ed. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Spatt, Brenda. Writing from Sources. 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Trimmer, Joseph F. A Guide to MLA Documentation. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1984.
Dictionaries and Thesauri
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Beckson, Karl, and Arthur Ganz. Literary Terms: A Dictionary. 3rd ed. New York: The Noonday Press, 1989.
Berube, Margery S., ed. The American Heritage Dictionary. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.
Chapman, Robert L. Roget’s International Thesaurus. 5th ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.
Ciardi, John. A Browser’s Dictionary: And Native’s Guide to the Unknown American Language. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Costello, Robert B., ed. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1991.
DeVries, Mary A. The New American Dictionary of Abbreviations. New York: Penguin Group, 1991.
Garner, Bryan A. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. New York: >Oxford University Press, 1987.
Glazier, Stephen. Random House Word Menu. New York: Random House, 1992.
Gove, Philip Babcock, ed. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1976.
Hirschhorn, Bernard. The New York Times Words and Issues: From ‘Slivers’ to Missiles. New York: The New York Times Co., 1985.
Lewis, Norman. Dictionary of Correct Spelling: A Handy Reference Guide. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1962.
Maggio, Rosalie. The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.
Morris, William, and Mary Morris. Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage. 2nd ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Nicholson, Margaret. A Dictionary of American-English Usage: Based on Fowler’s Modern English Usage. New York: >Oxford University Press, 1957.
Pickett, Joseph P., ed. The >American Heritage College Dictionary. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Soukhanov, Anne H., ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
Grammar and Usage
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Alexander, L. G. Longman English Grammar. London: Longman, 1988.
Bernstein, Theodore M. Miss Thistlebottom’s Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer’s Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Corder, Jim W., and John J. Ruszkiewicz. Handbook of Current English. 8th ed. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989.
Dart, Allan Kent. ESL Grammar Handbook: For Intermediate to Advanced Students of English as a Second Language. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Dumond, Val. Grammar for Grownups: A Guide to Grammar and Usage for Everyone Who Has to Put Words on Paper Effectively. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. New York: Times Books, 1984.
Hacker, Diana. Language Debates. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Raimes, Ann. Grammar Troublespots: An Editing Guide for Students. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Raimes, Ann. How English Works: A Grammar Handbook with Readings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Tracz, Richard Francis. Dr. Grammar’s Writes from Wrongs: A Supremely Authoritative Guide to the Common and Not-So-Common Rules of the English Language. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
Reading
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Berlitz, Charles. Native Tongues. New York: Pedigree Books, 1982.
Cooper, Charles R., and Susan Peck MacDonald. Writing the World: Reading and Writing about Issues of the Day. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.
Gibson, William. Shakespeare’s Game. New York: Atheneum, 1978.
Levin, Gerald. Prose Models. 5th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Writing in the Disciplines
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Alberti, John. The
Working Life.
Barnet, Sylvan. A
Short Guide to Writing About Art. 6th ed.
Bazerman, Charles
and David R. Russell, eds. Landmark Essays: On Writing Across the Curriculum.
Beall, Herbert
and John Trimbur. A Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry. 2nd
ed.
Beedles, Bonnie
and Michael Petracca. Academic Communities/Disciplinary Conventions.
Behrens, Laurence
and Leonard J. Rosen, eds. Writing and
Behrens, Laurence
and Leonard J. Rosen, eds. Writing and
Behrens,
Laurence, Leonard J. Rosen, and Bonnie Beedles. A Sequence for Academic
Writing. 2nd ed.
Bernstein, Mashey
and George Yatchisin. Writing for the Visual Arts.
Blakeslee, Ann M.
Interacting with Audiences: Social Influences on the Production of
Scientific Writing.
Bullock, Richard.
The
Comley, Nancy R.,
David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes, and
Corrigan,
Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. 3rd ed.
Dougherty, Barbey
Nyce. Composing Choices for Writers: A Cross-Disciplinary Rhetoric.
Duncan, Matthew
and Gustav W. Friedrich. Oral Presentations in the Composition Course: A
Brief Guide.
Herrington, Anne
and Charles Moran, eds. Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines.
Hult, Christine
A. Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum. 3rd ed.
Hult, Christine
A. Researching and Writing in the Humanities and Arts.
Hult, Christine
A. Researching and Writing in the Sciences and Technology.
Kennedy, Mary
Lynch, William J. Kennedy, and Hadley M. Smith. Writing in the Disciplines:
A Reader for Writers. 4th ed.
Kennedy, Mary
Lynch and Hadley M. Smith.
Lester, James D.,
Sr. and James D. Lester, Jr. The Essential Guide: Research Writing Across
the Disciplines. 3rd ed.
McMillan,
Victoria E. Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences. 3rd
ed.
Marius, Richard. A
Short Guide to Writing about History. 2nd ed.
Mulvany, Mary Kay
and David A. Jolliffe. Academic Writing: Genres, Samples, and Resources.
Murdick, William.
The Portable Business Writer.
Pechenik, Jan A. A
Short Guide to Writing About Biology. 3rd ed.
Penrose, Ann M.
and Steven B. Katz. Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of
Scientific Discourse.
Porush, David. A
Short Guide to Writing About Science.
Prior, Paul A. Writing/Disciplinarity:
A Sociohistoric Account of Literature Activity in the Academy.
Ross, Carolyn. Writing
Nature: An Ecological Reader for Writers.
The Sociology
Writing Group. Judith Richlin-Klonsky and Ellen Strenski, eds. A Guide to
Writing Sociology Papers. 5th ed.
Thaiss,
Christopher and Rick Davis. Writing About Theatre.
VanAlstyne,
Judith S. and Merrill D. Tritt. Professional & Technical Writing
Strategies: Communicating in Technology & Science. 5th ed.
Whitin, Phyllis and David J. Whitin. Math is
Language Too: Talking and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom.
Literature Anthologies
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Annas, Pamela J., and Robert C. Rosen, eds. Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Atwan, Robert, ed. Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes. Boston: Bedford Books-St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Axelrod, Rise B., and Charles R. Cooper, eds. Reading Critically, Writing Well: A Reader and Guide. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.
Bain, Carl E., Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter, eds. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977.
Barnet, Sylvan, Morton Berman, and William Burto, eds. Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984.
Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky, eds. Ways of Reading. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996.
Baym, Nina, Ronald Gottesman, Laurence B. Holland, David Kalstone, Francis Murphy, Hershel Parker, William H. Pritchard, and Particia B. Wallace, eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg, eds. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston: Bedford Books, 1990.
Brandon, Lee, ed. From Self to Sources: Essays and Beyond (Instructor’s Annotated Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Calderwood, James L., and Harold E. Toliver, eds. Forms of Prose Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972.
Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. New York: Bedford Books-St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
Cooley, Thomas, ed. The Norton Sampler. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
Dietrich, R. F., and Roger H. Sundell, eds. The Art of Fiction. 4th ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.
DiYanni, Robert, ed. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay. New York: Random House, 1986.
Hall, Donald, ed. The Pleasures of Poetry. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Hall, Donald, ed. To Read Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
Keating, Helane Levine, and Walter Levy, eds. Lives Through Literature: A Thematic Anthology. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Common Ground: Reading and Writing about America’s Cultures. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.
Miller, Robert Keith, and Suzanne S. Webb, eds. Motives for Writing. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1992.
Mizener, Arthur, ed. A Handbook of Analyses, Questions, and a Discussion of Technique for Use with Modern Short Stories: The Uses of Imagination. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.
Stone, Wilfred, Nancy Huddleston Packer, and Robert Hoopes, eds. The Short Story: An Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1983.
Thrall, William Flint, and Addison Hibbard, eds. A Handbook to Literature. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1960.
Tibbetts, Charlene, and A. M. Tibbetts, eds. Strategies: A Rhetoric and Reader. 2nd ed. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984.
Teaching and Tutoring
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Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.
Ball, Cheryl E., and Kristin L. Arola. IX Visual Exercises. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.
Bartholomae, David. Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.
Howard, Rebecca Moore, and Sandra Jamieson. The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: An Instructor’s Desk Reference. Boston: Bedford Books, 1995.
Matsuda, Paul Kei, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper. Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Meyer, Emily, and Louise Z. Smith. The Practical Tutor. New York: >Oxford University Press, 1987. (2 copies)
Ryan, Leigh, and Lisa Zimmerelli. The Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.
Stay, Byron L., Christina Murphy, and Eric H. Hobson, eds. >Writing Center Perspectives. Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1995.
What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1987.