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Recommended Readings for Writing, Reasoning Researching and learning Writing skills If you know that you have particularly severe difficulties in writing clear English, and are interested in doing some work to improve it, then I would recommend that you invest in: Barnet, S. Stubbs, M., Barnet Stubbs’s Practical Guide to Writing, Harper Collins, 1995 This is American (I have been unable to find a satisfactory English equivalent) and is not cheap. It is however, extremely comprehensive and, if used in conjunction with practice, should improve anybody’s writing technique. An excellent, competitively priced overall text that deals with grammar punctuation, spelling and general essay writing techniques is: Peck, J. Coyle, M., (1999), The Students Guide to Writing, Palgrave: Basingstoke UK If your interests are towards the professional rather than academic writing end of the spectrum, then Palgrave also offer:  Marsen, S., (2003), Professional Writing: the complete guide for Business Industry and IT, Palgrave: Basingstoke UK The University library stocks most, but not all, of the titles listed below. However, you will encounter the usual problem that, faced with more than 10,000 students, our Library is unable to predict, let alone guarantee, the availability of any individual title to any individual student. Grammar and Punctuation Collinson, D., Plain English, Oxford University Press, 1992 Dutch, R. A., Roget’s Thesaurus, Penguin, 1975 Burchfield, R. (ed.), The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, The Clarenden Press, 1996 Chalker, S, A student’s English Grammar, Workbook, Longman, 1992, (NB this book can only be used in conjunction with Greenbaum and Quirk’s A student’s grammar of the English Language shown below.) Gowers, Sir E., The complete Plain Words, Penguin, 1975 Greenbaum, S Quirk, R., A student’s grammar of the English Language, Longman, 1990 Payne, J. English Guides 8: Spelling, (Collins Cobuild Series), Harper Collins, 1995 Willis,