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The elements of international English style: a guide to writing correspondence, reports, technical documents, and internet pages for a global audience
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,
2005.
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4th ed.)
Grammar and Punctuation | The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Introduction to Narratology
Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009.
Chicago Manual of Style
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CRAFT OF RESEARCH
Lapsing into a comma: a curmudgeon’s guide to the many things that can go wrong in print--and how to avoid them
Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age
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The elements of style / by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
New York : Penguin Press, 2005.
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The Norton field guide to writing
New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,2009.
Main Library 3 South
Call number: 808.042 B938n
"They say / I say" : the moves that matter in academic writing
New York : W.W. Norton & Company [2017]
Main Library 4 South
Call number: PE1431 .G73 2017
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