What resources would you add to the following list for teachers and writers learning their craft? This is related to journalism writing, but then that’s just me.
I am hoping we can have a pretty strong bibliography put together by the end of the course.
So go ahead and add your favorites.
• Associated Press Stylebook or Chicago Manual of Style
• Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas: The Grammar Bible: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask
• www.usu.edu/journalism/faculty/sweeney/resources/3120web.html – a compilation
of editing and writing resources
• www.bartleby.com/100/index.html – Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
• www.m-w.com/ Merriam Webster dictionary, thesaraus humanities.uchicago.
edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html – Rogets Thesaurus online
• www.bartleby.com/141/ – William Strunk Jr., “The Elements of Style”
• www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/3696.cfm – API’s copy-editing resources
• www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox/ – Journalists’ toolbox compiled by API
• Henry Fowler: Dictionary of Modern English Usage
• Wilson Follet: Modern American Usage
• Garner’s Modern American Usage
• Webster’s New World Dictionary
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One of my favorite "writing" books is "Writing on Both Sides of the Brain" by Henriette Klauser. It is mostly for fiction writers but applies just as well to any writer that meets "the wall." It also provides tons of exercises to help writers think both logically and creatively. These exercises could be used in any classroom.
Here's an interesting site that you might find helpful, Bill:
http://209.200.80.136/ojr/education/1081488549.php
My favorite book on writing is Stephen's King's book On Writing.
Another interesting writing book from a fiction perspective is Terry Brooks' "Sometimes the Magic Works." It isn't about teaching writing, per se, but it is about his experiences as a bestselling fantasy author and goes into detail on how he gets ideas, how he plots his stories, and how to navigate the publishing world. It is also a very quick read.
Here's the book I mentioned: "Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers" by Wilbert McKeachie
It's the book given to graduate students and teaching assistants at the U several years ago. It was the school's attempt to give them something to think about before being thrown cold into teaching.
There's a section on teaching writing but it has little nuggets on how to handle a wide range of teaching situations.
Also:
For journalism/pr teachers there's "Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together" by Roy Peter Clark and Don Fry.
Clark and Fry are well-regarded teachers/consultants at the Poynter Institute in Florida.
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