An Interesting Infographic Featuring 16 Great Writing Guides for Teachers and Students

January 10, 2017
Below is a handy infographic we designed specially for language teachers and anyone else keen on improving their writing skills. The visual is based on Paul Silvia’s popular book ‘How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing”. At the reference page of his book, Paul featured a collection of what he called ‘Good Books about Writing’. Most of these books have already been featured in previous posts in our ‘Books for Teachers’ section here in EdTech and mLearning. We used Paul’s recommendations concerning the first three categories (the essential books, books for grammar, and books for style) and we added a fourth category featuring our own picks for academic writing to create the infographic below. Feel free to download, print, and share our visual the way you want provided you credit us as the source and that you keep it free of charge.

The Essential Books	1- Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition Infographics, by Merriam-Webster 2- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr and E. B. White 3- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, by William Zinsser. 4- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, by American Psychological Association.
Books for Grammar	1- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss 2- The Transitive Vampire: a Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon 3- The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon 4- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose, by Constance Hale
Books for Style	1- Junk English, by Ken Smith 2- Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them, by Bill Walsh 3- The Practical Stylist: The Classic Guide to Style, by Sheridan Baker 4- The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American EnglishInfographics, by Bill Walsh
Books for Academic Writing	1- Stylish Academic Writing, by Helen Sword 2- How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, by Paul J. Silvia 3- Becoming an Academic Writer: 50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing, by Patricia Goodson 4- Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing, by Robert Boice