Books on Academic Writing

William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (1918), 4th ed. (Pearson, 2000)

William Zinsser, On Writing Well (Harper Colins, 1976)

Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis (1977), trans. Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina (MIT Press, 2015)

Joseph M. Williams and Joseph Bizup, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (1981), 13th ed. (Pearson, 2021)

Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (1994), 2nd ed. (Princeton University Press, 2011)

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup and William T. FitzGerald, The Craft of Research (1995), 5th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Patricia T. O’Conner, Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (1996), fourth ed. (Penguin Random House, 2019)

Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers, Rules for Writers (1999), 10th ed. (Macmillan, 2022)

Bryan Garner, Garner’s Modern English Usage (1999), fifth ed. (Oxford University Press, 2022)

William Germano, Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Serious About Serious Books (2001), 3rd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

John M. Swales and Christine Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills (2004), 3rd ed. (University of Michigan Press, 2012)

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (2005), 6th ed. (Norton, 2024)

Frank L. Cioffi, The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers (2005), 2nd ed. (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Stephen J. Pyne, Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction (Harvard University Press, 2011)

Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard University Press, 2012)

Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Harper, 2012)

Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing (Vintage, 2012)

Eric Hayot, The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2014)

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Helen Sword, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard University Press, 2017)

June Casagrande, The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should Know (Penguin Random House, 2018)

Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (2009), 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2019)

Steven R. Terrell, Writing a Proposal for Your Dissertation (2015), 2nd ed (Guildford Press, 2023)

Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Penguin Random House, 2020)

Jeffrey R. Wilson, Academic Writing (Open Access, 2022)

William Germano, On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts ( University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink, Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World (Penguin Random House, 2023)

Leonard Cassuto, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter (Princeton, 2024)

James M. Lang, Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience (University of Chicago Press, 2025)