On JDD's Bookshelf

The Elements of Style, Strunk and White

Elements of Writing, Robert Scholes and Carl Klaus

Writing the Natural Way: Using Right Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Powers, Gabriele Lusser Rico

Writing To Be Read, Ken Macrorie

The Most Common Mistakes in English Usage, Thomas Elliot Berry

A Dictionary of American-English Useage based on Fowler's Modern English Usage, Margaret Nicholson

Right, Wrong and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage, Mark Davidson

The Practical Stylist 2nd Ed., Sheridan Baker

A Practical Guide to Effective Writing, Jerome H. Perlmutter

Elements of the Scientific Paper, Michael Katz

Eats Shoots & Leaves (The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation), Lynne Truss

The Well-Tempered Sentence
(A Punctiation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed), Karen E. Gordon

Contemporary Essays on Style, Glen A. Love and Michael Payne

Modern English Handbook, Gorrell and Laird

The Essay: A Critical Anthology, Ed. by John L. Stewart

Essay, Hans P. Guth

The New English Grammer, N. R. Cattell

Every Cliche In the Book, Peggy Rosenthal and George Dardess

...As One Mad With Wine and Other Similes, Elyse Sommer and Mike Sommer

Puns, Walter Redfern

A Hog On Ice & Other Curious Expressions, Charles Earl Funk, and
Heavens to Betsy! also by Funk

On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner

The Reader Over Your Shoulder, Robert Graves

Ayn Rand: My Fiction Writing Teacher, Erica Holzer

Making Shapely Fiction, Jerome Stern

Fiction Writer's Handbook, Hallie & Whit Burnett

The Craft of Fiction, Percy Lubbock

Reading People, Reading Plots (Charter, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative), James Phelan

Reading the Novel, Roger Henkle

The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing 4th Ed., Michael Meyer

Writing to Sell, Scott Meredith

How Advertising is Written, and Why, Aesop Glim

The Art of Persuasion, La Casce and Belanger

In Pursuit of Poetry, Robert Hillyer

Poetic Justice, Martha Nussbaum

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte

The Medium is the Message and Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan

The New Diary, Trisline Rainer