WHAT WRITING RESOURCES DOES GOODEDITORS.COM RECOMMEND?
The following books are especially helpful and interesting. This is a subjective opinion, of course, but all opinions are subjective. There are hundreds and hundreds of specialized books and other sources of information on book writing and publishing. Here are some very useful ones that have appeared in recent years.
Hudson, Robert.The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style, 4th ed. Grand Rapids:Zondervan Publishing House, 2016.
O’Conner, Patricia T.Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English, 3rd revised and enlarged edition. New York: Riverhead Books, 2010.
Schwartz, Marilyn, et al. Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Shertzer, Margaret.The Elements of Grammar.New York: Pearson, 1996.
Strunk, Jr., William I. and E.B. White.The Elements of Style, 4th ed.New York:Allyn & Bacon, 2000.
Walsh, Bill.Lapsing Into a Comma.New York:McGraw-Hill Companies, 2000.
Williams, Joseph M.Style:Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 7th ed.New York:Longman, 2002.
DICTIONARIES, THESAURUSES, AND OTHER REFERENCE BOOKS
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Bartlett, John.Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 17th ed.Boston: Little Brown, 2002.
Barzun, Jacques and Henry F. Graff.The Modern Researcher, 6th ed.San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2003.
Beard, Henry and Christopher Cerf.The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook.New York:Villard Books, 1993.
Brownstone, David M. and Irene M. Franck.The Dictionary of Publishing.New York:Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982.
Bryson, Bill.Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words.New York:Broadway Books, 2004.
Buchannan-Brown, John, et al.Le Mot Juste:A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Words and Phrases, New York:Vintage Books, 1991.
Burchfield, Robert W., ed.The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.New York:Oxford University Press, 1987.
Chantrell, Glynnis, ed.The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories.New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.Prepared by the editorial staff of the University of Chicago Press.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.