Strunk, William., E.B. White.
The Elements of Style.
3rd ed., Mew York: Macmillian Pub. Co. 1979. Published first in 1959 this book remains the leader in bibliography of writing style. It is concise precise, and decisive; everything we should be as writer according to the authors.
Zinsser, William.
On Writing Well.
2nd ed., New York: Harper & Ron, 1980. Is it o.k. to laugh while reading a serious treatment of writing? You will reading this book. Book grew out of a course Zinsser taught at Yale for many years.
Schoen, Carol.
The Writing Experience.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1979. Integrates carefully structured basic skills components with purposeful & challenging classroom writing experiences.
Clayes, Stanley., David Spencer, Martin, Stanford.
Contexts for Composition.
4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1976. Text can be used with better high school and freshman comp classes since it covers various writing styles from the viewpoint of well-known authors. Questions and writing assignments that follow provide student an opportunity to model good writing.
Flesch, Rudolf., A.H. Lass. A
New Guide To Better Writing.
New York: Popular Library, 1947. This book is more suited to the layman writer who finds texts too academic or too specialized. Deals with the thinking, planning, tools, and knowledge of basic rules of grammar & usage to aid in writing.
Adelstein, Michael., Jean Pival.
The Writing Commitment.
New York: Harcourt, 1976. Freshman college text that starts from the write-oriented personal journal & auto-biographical narrative and proceeds to audience-oriented exposition & argument.
The following are useful books on writing in as much as they offer reference material as well as ideas for writing.
Leggett, Glen., C. David Mead, W. Charvst.
Handbook for Writers.
3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1960. This book is an excellent handbook useful both as a guide and a reference work. As a summary of grammatical usage and elementary rhetoric, it provides the essentials of clear writing.
Robey, Cora., A. Hedrick, E. Morgan.
Handbook of Basic Writing Skills.