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Works Cited
Print-based
Linguistic Description
Aarts, Bas. Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford UP, 2011.
Biber, Douglas, and Stig Johansson, et al. Longman Grammar Of Spoken And Written English. Pearson Education, 1999.
Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. 7th ed., Longman Group, 1989.
Huddleston, Rodney D., and Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge UP, 2002.
———. A Student's Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge UP, 2005.
Kroeger, Paul R. Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2005.
Payne, Thomas Edward. Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2011.
Swan, Michael. Practical English Usage. 3rd ed., Oxford UP, 2005.
Traditional Grammar Description
Azar, Betty Schrampfer, and Stacy A. Hagen. Understanding and Using English Grammar. 4th ed., Pearson Education, 2009.
———. Fundamentals of English Grammar. 5th ed. Vol. A , Pearson Education, 2020.
———. Fundamentals of English Grammar. 5th ed. Vol. B , Pearson Education, 2020.
Frank, Marcella. Modern English: Exercises for Non-native Speakers. Part I, Prentice-Hall, 1972.
———. Modern English: Exercises for Non-native Speakers. Part II, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall Regents, 1986.
Krohn, Robert. English Sentence Structure. U of Michigan, 1971.
Lunsford, Andrea A., and Robert J. Connors. The New St. Martin's Handbook. 3rd ed., Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar in Use. 5th ed., Cambridge UP. 2019.
Robinson, Diane Mae. The Dragon Grammar Book: Grammar for Kids, Dragons, and the Whole Kingdom. Diane Mae Robinson Ink [sic]. Dec 2017.
Smalley, Regina L., Mary K. Ruetten, Joann Rishel Kozyrev. Refining Composition Skills: Rhetoric and Grammar. 5th ed., Heinle & Heinle, 2001.
Strunk, William Jr. and E.G. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed., Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Traditional Grammar Description (continued)
Yorkey, Richard C. Study Skills: for Students of English as a Second Language. McGraw-Hill, 1970.
Young, A. Robert and Ann O. Strauch. Nitty Gritty Grammar: Sentence Essentials for Writers. St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Style Manuals
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law. Edited by Thomas Kent, et al., 51st ed., AP, 2016.
The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed., U of Chicago P, 2010.
The Gregg Reference Manual. Edited by William A. Sabin, 11th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2011.
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. By Allan M. Siegal, William G. Connolly, Revised by Philip B. Corbet et al., 5th Ed. Three Rivers Press, 2015.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed., American Psychological Association, 2010.
Word Use
Ciardi, John. A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language. Harper & Row, 1980.
———. A Second Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language. Harper & Row, 1983.
Fowler's Modern English Usage. Edited by R. W. Burchfield and H. W. Fowler, revised 3rd ed., Oxford UP, 2004.
Garner's Modern American Usage. By Bryan A. Garner, 3rd ed., Oxford UP, 2009.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Reprint ed., Merriam-Webster, 1994.
Internet Usage
McCulloch, Gretchen. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.Riverhead Books, 2019.
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Works Cited (Online)
Internet-based
Academic Sites
Education Resources Information Center. ERIC, 2013, eric.ed.gov.
"The 'Fair Use' Exemption." Fair Use, Princeton U, 2016, www.princeton.edu/ogc/legal-guidance/copyright/fair-use.
"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." Purdue OWL, Edited by Tony Russel et al., Purdue U, 15 Aug. 2016, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01.
"Research and Citation." The Purdue OWL, Purdue U, 5 Aug. 2016, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2.
"Punctuation." ITS Style Guide, U North Carolina, 2016, its.uncg.edu/Style_Guide/Punctuation.
"Student Learning Grammar." Student Learning, U of Waikato. 16 Aug. 2016, www.waikato.ac.nz/students/student-learning/grammar/index.shtml.
Bibliographic Citation Helpers (Caution! Check versions.)
EasyBib. 2016, easybib.com.
Son of Citation Machine. 2016, citationmachine.net.
Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2016, chronicle.com.
Corpus (Word Use in Context)
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Brigham Young U, 2013, corpus.byu.edu/coca.
Dictionaries Online
American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language,Fifith Ed. Houghton Mifflin. 2012. ahdictionary.com.
Based on Random House Dictionary, 2016, dictionary.reference.com.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Pearson, 2016, ldoceonline.com.
Merriam-Webster. 2016, merriam-webster.com.
Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford U Press, 2016, oxforddictionaries.com.
Urban Dictionary. Created by Aaron Peckham. urbandictionary.com (a crowd-sourced dictionary of slang; reviewed by volunteers)
Library Guides (from Academic Institutions)
"Citing Your Sources." Cite Sources. UC Berkeley Library, 2016, lib.berkeley.edu/how-to-find/cite-sources.
"Evaluating Resources." Library Guides, UC Berkeley Library, 2016, lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/evaluation.html.
Media and Print on English Language
Farb, Peter. Word Play. Reprint ed., Vintage. 1993.
Chomsky, Noam. Language and Mind. 3rd ed., Cambridge UP, 2006.
Kuhl, Patricia. "The Linguistic Genius of Babies." Ted, Oct. 2010, ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.
McWhorter, John. Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally). Henry Holt, 2016.
———. "Txting is killing language. JK!!!" Ted, 2013, ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_language_jk.
———. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. Avery. 2009.
Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style. Viking Penguin, 2014.
———. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. 1st ed., William Morrow,1994.
———. Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language. Basic Books, 1999.
Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. Ballentine Books, 1991.
Truss, Lynn. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Reprint ed., Avery, 2006.
Professional Careers
English Language Teaching Jobs. TEFL Professional Network, 2016, tefl.com.
TESOL International Association. 2016, tesol.org.
Supplementary Practice (Non-Profit Org)
"Grammar." KhanAcademy, 2016, khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar.
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