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Selected
Reference Books and Guides to Successful Scholarly Writing
Compiled
by Gerald Stone
Compiled
and annotated by
GERALD STONE
TAA president, 1995-1996
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GENERAL
Zinsser, William (1990). On Writing Well, 4th edition. New York:
Harper & Row, Publishers. Easy reading (or listening) reminders about
effective writing.
Horowitz, Irving Louis (1991). Communicating Ideas: The Politics
of Scholarly Publishing, 2nd edition. New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction Publishers.
SPECIFIC
Benjaminson, Peter. Publish Without Perishing: A Practical Handbook
for Academic Authors. Washington, D.C.: NEA Professional Library,
Graduate Student's Guide to Getting Published. The (1992). Alida
Allison and Terri Frongia (editors). New York: Prentice Hall.
Matkin, Ralph E. and T.F. Riggar (1991). Persist and Publish: Helpful
Hints for Academic Writing and Publishing. Niwot: University Press
of Colorado.
Meriwether, Nell W. 12 Easy Steps to Successful Research Papers. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group. Designed primarily
for student term papers, includes outlines, first drafts, references
and revising.
Moxley, Joseph Michael (1992). Publish, Don't Perish: The Scholar's
Guide to Academic Writing and Publishing. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press.
Powell, Walter W. (1985). Getting Into Print: The Decision-Making Process
in Scholarly Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (1996). Peek, Robin
P. and Gregory B. Newby (editors). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Woodward, Jeannette A. (1997). Writing Research Papers: Investigating
Resources in Cyberspace. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC/Contemporary
Publishing Group. Designed primarily for student term papers, has practical
suggestions for using computers and on-line databases, MLA, APA and
Chicago documentation style.
VERY SPECIFIC
Girden, Ellen R. (1996). Evaluating Research Articles from Start
to Finish. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. Designed
for an advanced research methods course; a book recommended for those
who do journal peer reviews.
Krantz, Steven G. (1997). A Primer of Mathematical Writing. Providence,
RI: American Mathematical Society. Very easy read for faculty writing
that applies to a wide variety of scholarly writing in the technical
disciplines.
MacDonald, Susan (1994). Professional Academic Writing in the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois
University Press.
Parsons, Paul (1989). Getting Published: The Acquisition Process
at University Presses. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research (1995). D.C. Greetham
(editor). New York:
Modem Language Association of America. Suspect this is an MLA guide
about how to edit your submissions.
Writings on Scholarly Communication: An Annotated Bibliography of
Books and Articles on Publishing, Libraries, Scholarly Research, and
Related Issues (1988). Herbert C. Morton (editor). Lanham, Maryland:
University Press of America.
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