Writing Manuals and Style Guides

 

MHC Speaking, Arguing and Writing Program

 

Style Guides

• Bibliography Styles Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "This Handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style, the new Modern Languages Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA style."
  

• A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
  Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library Capital Community College Hartford, Connecticut
  

• Citing Electronic Sources - MHC Library
  

 

Writing Manuals

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Chuck Guilford, associate professor of English at Boise State University
  "an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook"

• Guide to Grammar and Writing Maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general online public.
  

• Hypertext Writer's Guide University of Victoria
  "an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature"
  

• Writer's Handbook The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
  

• Guide to Grammar and Style By Jack Lynch
  "grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage"

• 501 Grammar And Writing Questions New York : LearningExpress, 1999. netLibrary edition. MHC Campus only
  

 

Reference

• Bartleby's English Usage, Style & Composition collection
  "contemporary and classic usage guides"
  

  • The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
    
  • Strunk, William. Elements of Style. Ithaca, N.Y.: Priv. print. [Geneva, N.Y.: Press of W.P. Humphrey], 1918.
    
    

• A Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris, Professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa, California

 

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