Preparing your manuscript: useful resources and links

libr and skylightHere is a list of resources that can help you to prepare your manuscript.

Style guides:

Strunk & White’s Elements of Style

Garner’s Modern American Usage

William A. Sabin’s The Gregg Reference Manual

Wilson Follett’s Modern American Usage

Prentice Hall’s Words into Type

Theodore M. Bernstein’s The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage

Chicago Manual of Style

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publication

Oxford Style Manual

Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax, How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

C. Edward Good’s A Grammar Book for You and I…Oops, Me!

Grammar Girl’s: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Blog: First Things First: Priorities for Writers, Dead Grammar Rules:  http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-things-first.html

 

 

Links for academic writers:

The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5

Paul Krugman: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howiwork.html

http://www.phd2published.com/

http://thesiswhisperer.com/

http://patthomson.wordpress.com/

http://explorationsofstyle.com/

http://chronicle.com/section/Advice-Columns/144?cid=megamenu

http://phdtalk.blogspot.ca/

http://jameshaytonphd.com/everything/

http://patthomson.wordpress.com/writing-for-journals/

http://blog.taaonline.net/2014/07/6-dos-and-donts-of-editing-your-dissertation/

http://blog.taaonline.net/2014/06/the-three-biggest-mistakes-academic-writers-make/