There are countless reading lists out there for beginning or professional writers, each of which offers helpful selections. Here is one such list with reasons included:
- Diane Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference (Seventh Edition)
- The Hacker reference guides are well known for compiling all the information needed to properly format your citations and is a necessity for skilled writers, as well as college students. It gives thorough explanations for tackling MLA and APA—along with sample essays.
- This edition also happens to be the one that shows the changes recently made for formatting Works Cited pages (such as the rule to italicize book titles, rather than underline them).
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Seventh Edition) from the Modern Language Association of America.
- This handbook is another reference guide for proper citations and more like the Hacker guide, but this one comes right from MLA.
- It goes into better detail on formatting the margins for papers and gives great tips or sources on how to do better research on any topic.
- William Zinsser’s On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
- Unlike the first two choices on this list, On Writing Well contains straightforward prose and discussions aimed exclusively towards serious writers. He gives advice on, well, nonfiction—and many genres within that category.
- His book has sections dealing with each phase in the writing process, from getting started to making revisions. Zinsser pushes for writers to be concise and avoid clutter in their work (a commendable quality).
That’s all for now.
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