Book Recommendations

My Top 3  Book Recommendations for Writing 

  1. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
  2. The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
  3. The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane

Additional Book Recommendations for Writing 

  • Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals that Get Funded by Joshua Schimel

  • Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams

  • Style: Lessons In Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams

  • Writing Analytically by David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephens

  • The Craft of Argument by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory C. Colomb

  • The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley

  • Essentials for the Scientific and Technical Writer by Hardy Hoover

Books on Writing Proposals

  • Zen of Proposal Writing by Kitta Reeds

Books on Effective Plots and Diagrams

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte

  • Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte

  • Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte