Style, Usage, and Documentation
Websites
- While the MLA website does not publish its style sheet online (they prefer that you buy their books), the site does have an extremely helpful page of FAQs.
- The APA website contains a helpful FAQ section on the mechanics of APA style as well as particular grammar issues.
- Barteby.com has exerpted from Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. The site contains helpful information on usage and composition issues.
Books
A Pocket Style Manual
Diana Hacker
English Grammar in Context
Kitty Chen Dean
The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers
Frank L. Cioffi
Prentice Hall Reference Guide
Muriel Harris
EasyWriter: A Pocket Guide
Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors