Let’s see what’s on my reading list. First, let me classify the stuff under this category.

  • quality newspapers, journals, magazines, websites
  • mainly scholarly books on the language of science and other relevant resources
  • some stuff for bookaholics, and just for fun

Conference Alerts, worldwide   https://conferencealerts.com/

Journals & Newspapers

  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Scientific American
  • Time
  • Newsweek
  • The Telegraph
  • The Guardian
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Economist
  • Harward Business Review
  • National Geographics
  • The New Yorker
  • The New York Review of Books
  • London Review of Books

Oxford University Press blog : Academic Insights for the Thinking World                     http://blog.oup.com/

LingQ  :  an Exciting  Languages Learning Project by Steve Kaufmann        https://www.lingq.com/

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE     https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Khan Academy     https://www.khanacademy.org

Future of Working website     http://futureofworking.com/

Quora website     http://www.quora.com

Beall’s list      http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

The Thesis Whisperer      https://thesiswhisperer.com/

Open Culture   website     http://www.openculture.com/

SingularityHub                  https://singularityhub.com/

The Best Online Dictionaries        http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Randi Reppen. Grammar and Beyond  –  by far the best course to learn English – 4 parts, A1 to C1 levels

Paul McFedries                http://www.wordspy.com/

Michael Quinion             http://www.worldwidewords.org/personal.htm

Language Log                   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

David Crystal’s  books (all of them, but especially “The Stories of English”) and blog http://www.amazon.com/The-Stories-English-David-Crystal/dp/1585677191 http://www.davidcrystal.com/

Ken Hyland‘s writings   http://www2.caes.hku.hk/kenhyland/

Beth Luey    https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Academic-Authors-Beth-Luey-ebook/dp/B003545KNU/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Laurence Behrens, Leonard Rosen   https://www.amazon.com/Sequence-Academic-Writing-7th/dp/0134398505/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518367327&sr=1-10

time-tested  (but also being mildly to sharply criticized now) “Strunk&White”  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=strunk+

Adrian Wallwork   http://www.amazon.com/Adrian-Wallwork/e/B0034NF6TA

William Zinsser      http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444647565&sr=1-1

Writings by Helen Sword         http://www.helensword.com/

Writings by Steven Pinker      https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing-ebook/dp/B00JW50680/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Paula LaRocque website and books      http://paulalarocque.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Paula-LaRocque/e/B001K8ZUGA

Hilary Glasman-Deal http://www.amazon.com/Hilary-Glasman-Deal/e/B002TPVL5W

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams   http://www.amazon.com/Research-Edition-Chicago-Writing-Publishing/dp/0226065669

more books by Joseph M. Williams     https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-M.-Williams/e/B001H6MZ40/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_

Lynn Gaertner-Johnstone      http://www.amazon.com/Lynn-Gaertner-Johnston/e/B00GVFTELY    AND    http://www.syntaxtraining.com/

Stephen Wilbers      https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Wilbers/e/B001KC4C5G/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

Nancy Duarte’s books and blog   http://www.duarte.com/blog/

Steven Darian‘s books (all of them, but especially  “Understanding The Language of Science” and  “The Tools of the Trade: Technique in Nonfiction”

https://linuslearning.com/product/the-tools-of-the-trade-technique-in-nonfiction/

https://www.amazon.com/Technique-Nonfiction-Tools-Steven-Darian/dp/1607975718

Byron Tully‘s blog and books     https://theoldmoneybook.com/  

https://www.amazon.com/Byron-Tully/e/B00OJZWKYG/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1471434639&sr=8-2-ent

Professor Ivan Megela writings     http://www.korekta-vk.com/pres-kafe/avtory/megela

Fred Schindler’s writings

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7449088

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7348840

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Harvard College Writing Center

http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/resources

http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/strategies-essay-writing

http://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/topic-sentences-and-signposting

Harvard Brief Guides to Writing in the Disciplines

https://writingproject.fas.harvard.edu/pages/brief-guides-disciplines

The University of Manchester   Academic Phrasebank http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/

Purdue OWL   (Online Writing Lab)   https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

University of Leicester  Writing Resources      http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/writing/writing-resources/science

Research Tips from The University at Buffalo     http://library.buffalo.edu/help/research-tips/

The Cornell Notes Method     https://www.timeatlas.com/cornell-note-template/

Know Your Phrase                   http://www.knowyourphrase.com/

Grammaring    e.g.    http://www.grammaring.com/its-been-days-weeks-months-etc-since

Verbatim (it also has an extensive list of useful links) http://www.verbatimmag.com/links.html

Language Log    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

RedLine     https://www.redlinels.com/examples-of-good-writing/

Emma Darwin‘s blog     http://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/

Research Voodoo    https://researchvoodoo.wordpress.com/

The Thesis Whisperer    https://thesiswhisperer.com/

Steven Darian, Olga Ilchenko 
Impact: writing for business, technology and science [Text] / Steven Darian, Olga Ilchenko; Nat. acad. of sciences of Ukraine, Research a. educational center for foreign lang. – 2nd ed. – Kyiv : Akademperiodyka, 2012. – 231 p. – (Project “Ukrainian scientific book in a foreign language”). – ISBN 978-966-360-196-0

Technique in creative writing [Text] / Steven Darian, Olga Ilchenko ;
[Nat. acad. of sciences of Ukraine, Research and educational center for
foreign languages] = Секрети красного письменства / Стівен Деріен,
Ольга Ільченко. – 2nd. ed. – Kyiv : Akademperiodyca, 2015. – 100, [1] p. –
(Project «Ukrainian scientific book in a foreign language»). – ISBN 978-966-360-283-7

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Some other useful stuff for bookaholics, students, and teachers of English… 

https://www.goodreads.com/

http://bookshopblog.com/

http://www.fluentu.com/english/blog/

http://reallifeglobal.com/

Espresso English with Shayna     https://www.espressoenglish.net/

Questia     e.g.      http://blog.questia.com/2017/02/7-writing-tips-grammar-rules-for-research-papers/

Quote Investigator: Exploring the Origins of Quotations  https://quoteinvestigator.com/

Semiotics Encyclopedia Online     https://semioticon.com/seo/index.html

 

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