Books about Style, Process, and Grammar
- Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones
- Robert J. Gula’s Precision
- Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax
- Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
- Richard Lanham’s Revising Prose
- Rebecca McClanahan’s Word Painting
- William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White’s The Elements of Style
- Miny Toomay and Todd Walton’s The Writer’s Path
- Alan H. Vrooman’s Good Writing: An Informal Manual of Style
Style Guides
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- MLA Handbook, 7th Edition
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
- Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Books about Writing Nonfiction
- Philip Gerard’s Creative Nonfiction
- William Zinsser’s On Writing Well, An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Books about Memoir Writing
- Christina Baldwin’s Storycatcher
- Vivian Gornick’s The Situation and the Story
- Lisa Dale Norton’s Shimmering Images
- Tristine Rainer’s Your Life as Story
- Bill Roorbach’s Writing Life Stories
- Dawn and Morris Thurston’s Breathe Life into Your Life Story
- William Zinsser’s Writing about Your Life
Books about Writing Application Essays
- Harry Bauld’s On Writing the College Application Essay
- Bobkin Curry and Briand Kasbar’s Essays that Worked
- Don Dunbar’s What You Don’t Know Can Keep You Out of College
- The College Board’s The College Application Essay
Books about Academic Writing
- Joan Bolker’s Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
- Irene L. Clark’s Writing the Successful Thesis and Dissertation
- Patrick Dunleavy’s Authoring a Ph.D.
- Beverly J. Irby’s Writing a Successful Thesis or Dissertation: Tips and Strategies for Students in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Don Trent Jacob’s Authentic Dissertation: Alternative Ways of Knowing, Research and Representation
- Peg Boyle Single’s Demystifying Dissertation Writing