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Our Book Collection for Consultants

In many cases, we have both a reserve copy of a book and a copy that may be checked out by consultants. An asterisk marks those books that may only be consulted in M-2 Thaw Hall. Our books may be used in the Center by Pitt grad and undergrad students who give us a Pitt i.d. to hold while they read.

You can scroll through the list below or click on a link to jump to a particular section.

Scholarship | Practical Guides | Peer Tutoring | Sentence-level Issues and Editing | Composition Texts | Comp Theory | Textual Design | Reference

Scholarship on Writing Centers

Robert W. Barnett and Jacob S. Blumner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.

Elizabeth H. Boquet. Noise from the Writing Center. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2002.

Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown and Byron Stay. Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2002.

Nancy Maloney Grimm. Good Intentions: Writing Center Work for Postmodern Times. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999.

Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg and Melissa Nicolas, eds. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2004.

Christina Murphy and Joe Law, eds. Landmark Essays on Writing Centers. CA: Hermagoras Press, 1995.

Christina Murphy and Steve Sherwood, eds. The St. Martin's Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Christina Murphy and Steve Sherwood. The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. Second edition. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.*

Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz. Politics of Writing Centers. Boynton/Cook, 2001.

Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead, eds. The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2003.

Byron L. Stay, Christina Murphy, and Eric. H. Hobson, eds. Writing Center Perspectives. MD: NWCA Press, 1995.

Practical Guides

Laurel Johnson Black. Between Talk and Teaching: Reconsidering the Writing Conference. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1998.

Ben Rafoth. A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One. NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2000.

Peer Tutoring

Toni-Lee Capossela. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Peer Tutoring. Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.*

Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Paula Gillespie and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring, second edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.

Sentence-Level Issues and Editing

Claire Kehrwald Cook. Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing. Boston: The Modern Language Association of America, 1985.

Martha Kolln. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. Fourth Edition. Pearson Education, Inc., 2003.

Janet Lane and Ellen Lange. Writing Clearly: An Editing Guide. Second Edition. Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1999.

Max Morenberg, Jeff Sommers, Donald A. Daiker and Andrew Kerek. The Writer’s Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement. Sixth Edition. New York: Longman, 1999.

Ann Raimes. How English Works: A Grammar Handbook with Readings. Cambridge University Press, 1998.*

Elsie Myers Stainton. The Fine Art of Copyediting. Second Edition. New York, Columbia University Press, 2002.

Joseph M. Williams. Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Seventh Edition. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Paige Wilson and Teresa Ferster Glazier. Writing Essentials: Exercises to Improve Spelling, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, and Writing. Boston. MA: Thomson/Heinle, 2003.*


Composition Texts
These texts are used in the teaching of Seminar in Composition

David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading: An Anthology For Writers. Sixth Edition. Boston: St Martin’s Press, 2002.*

Carlos Castaneda. Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. New York: Washington Square Press, 1972.*

Barbara Ehrenreich. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. New York: a Metropolitan/Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company, 2001.*

Christopher Hitchens. Letters to a Young Contrarian. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, 2001.*

Richard Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. New Humanities Reader. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

Composition Theory

David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky, eds. Resources for Teaching Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.

Textual Design

Robin Williams. The Non-Designer’s Design Book: Design and Typographical Principles for the Visual Novice. Second edition. Berkeley, California: Peachpit Press, 2004.

Reference

Longman Dictionary of American English. Third Edition. Pearson Education, 2002.*

Marcella Frank. Modern English: A Practical Reference Guide. Second Edition. New Jersey: Regents/Prentice Hall, 1993.*

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Fifth Edition. American Psychological Association.

Joseph Gibaldi, ed. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Sixth Edition). New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

Norm Goldstein. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law. The Associated Press, 2002.

John C. Brereton and Margaret A. Mansfield. Writing On The Job: A Quick-Reference Guide to Writing in the Workplace. Updated Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.*

Kathryn Struckel Brogan, ed. Robert Lee Brewer, asst. ed. Writer’s Market. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2003.*

Richard A. Spears, ed. NTC’s American Idioms Dictionary (Second Edition). Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1987.*

Len Fulton. The International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses. 39th ed. Paradise, California: Dustbooks, 2003.*

Kathryn S. Brogan, ed. Robert Lee Brewer, asst. ed. Writer’s Market. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 2004.*

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