Writing and speaking skills
Writing and speaking skills
Articles:
How to Improve Your Writing: A Simple but Comprehensive Guide
The Elements of Style Summary: Writing Tips from the Most Influential Guide to Writing
Writing Tips from David Ogilvy
How to Proofread Your Writing Effectively
How to Type Faster: The Complete Guide
Writing and editing skills
Videos
Larry McEnerney - Writing skills - University of Chicago, Director of Writing Program
Writing
The Hodges Harbrace Handbook, 18th Edition by Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray
*The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
The New Oxford Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb
Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style by Arthur Plotnik
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes by Lester Kaufman and Jane Straus
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
Garner's Modern English Usage 4th Edition, by Bryan Garner, 2016
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
Write Right!: A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style by Jan Venolia
Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson by June Casagrande
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Grammar testing:
Hodges Harbrace Handbook:
The 70th-anniversary version of the Hodges Harbrace Handbook is the 18th edition of this fine work.[13] This grammar book has the longest history of any grammar handbook on the market. The Hodges Harbrace Handbook was produced by John C. Hodges in 1941. In 2012, it was one of the most widely used grammar textbooks and at the time it was estimated that 15 million students had used it.[14]
“Hodges created a clear taxonomy, with a simple numbering system for writing concepts and standardized usage,” said Cheryl Glenn, co-author of the eighteenth edition of The Hodges Harbrace Handbook. She is a liberal arts research professor of English... at Penn State. “As students’ needs have changed, both in the way they learn and receive information, so has the handbook, all while remaining true to the original template.
“Every successful handbook in America has copied the Harbrace Handbook. It may not have been the first English grammar handbook, but it became the first continuously published one.”
The entire family of Harbrace handbooks has evolved to reflect important cultural developments, including the digital age.
Grammar testing:
Copyediting
Copyediting 101: Grammar, Style & Practice by Ashan R. Hampton
The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications Fourth Edition by Amy Einsohn
Speaking skills
How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening (Communication Skills Book)
Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication Mastery by Arthur Samuel Joseph, with a foreword by Roger Goodell
Speak and Be Heard: 101 Vocal Exercises for Professionals, Public Speakers and Voice Actors by Richard Di Britannia
It's the Way You Say It by Carol A Fleming PhD
The Sound of Your Voice by Carol A Fleming PhD
Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want by Roger Love and Donna Frazier
Voice for Performance: Training the Actor's Voice by Linda Gates
Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Rosalind Ashford