Selected Bibliography

The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors. 2d ed. Edited by Janet S. Dodd. Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1997.

AIP Style Manual. 4th ed. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1990.

American Heritage College Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 3d ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

American Medical Association Manual of Style. 9th ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1998.

The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual. Edited by Norm Goldstein. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 16th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.

Barzun, Jacques. "Behind the Blue Pencil: Censorship or Creeping Creativity?" In On Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Bernstein, Theodore. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. New York: Atheneum, 1965.

——. Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears, and Outmoded Rules of English Usage. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971.

Blake, Gary, and Robert W. Bly. The Elements of Business Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

——.The Elements of Technical Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Burchfield, R. W. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

The Chicago Manual of Style. 14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia. 3d ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Cook, Claire Kehrwald. Line by Line: How to Improve Your Own Writing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 1996.

Dickson, Paul. Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1997.

Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary. 25th ed. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1995.

Follett, Wilson. Modern American Usage: A Guide. New York: Hill & Wang, 1966. Revised ed., edited by Erik Wensberg. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998.

Fowler, Henry. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 2d ed., revised by Ernest Gowers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.

Garner, Bryan A. A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The Great Grammar Challenge. Edited by Priscilla S. Taylor and Mary T. Stoughton. Alexandria, Va.: EEI Press, 1997.

Greenfeld, Howard. Books: From Writer to Reader. Revised ed. New York: Crown, 1989.

The Gregg Reference Manual. 8th ed. Edited by William A. Sabin. Lake Forest, Ill.: Glencoe, 1996.

Higham, Nicholas J. Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences. 2d ed. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1998.

Hirsch, E. D., Jr. The Philosophy of Composition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Johnson, Edward D. The Handbook of Good English. New York: Washington Square Press, 1991.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1993.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1989.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1993.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. 3d ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1997.

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2d ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1998.

Morris, Evan. The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet. Reprint ed. New York: Fawcett Books, 1998.

Mulvany, Nancy. Indexing Books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

My Big Sourcebook: For People Who Work with Words or Pictures. Alexandria, Va.: EEI Press, 1996.

The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

The New Webster's Grammar Guide. Edited by Madeline Semmelmeyer and Donald O. Bolander. New York: Berkley Books, 1991.

The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage. Edited by Andrea Sutcliffe. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Procedures of Five University Presses. Reprint ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Edited by Tom McArthur. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Oxford English Dictionary. 2d ed. 20 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1994.

Random House Webster's College Dictionary. 3d ed. New York: Random House, 1999.

Random House Webster's College Thesaurus. New York: Random House, 1997.

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. New York: Random House, 1997.

Rodale, J. I. The Synonym Finder. Revised ed. New York: Warner Books, 1986.

Roget's International Thesaurus. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Sharpe, Leslie T., and Irene Gunther. Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Shertzer, Margaret D. The Elements of Grammar. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 26th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

Stet Again! More Tricks of the Trade for Publications People. Alexandria, Va.: EEI Press, 1996.

Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Swanson, Ellen. Mathematics into Type. Updated ed. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematics Society, 1999.

Tarutz, Judith A. Technical Editing: The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1983.

United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.

Walker, Janice R., and Todd Taylor. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Webster's New World College Dictionary. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1999.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1993.

Williams, Joseph M. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. Revised ed. Edited by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.

Words into Type. 3d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

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Websites

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FAQs, newsgroup alt.usage.english: www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/alt-usage-english-faq.html

FAQs, Copyediting-L: www.telp.com/editing/

FAQS, Chicago Manual of Style: www.press.uchicago.edu

Freelance Editorial Association: www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/index.html

International Trademark Association: www.inta.org

Library of Congress catalog: www.loc.gov

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: www.m-w.com/

Modern Language Association, FAQs and citation style: www.mla.org

Oxford English Dictionary: www.oed.com