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/
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…
http://www.fluentu.com/english/blog/
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
Thank you for this list. Cool selection… I will surely make use of it.
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Anytime. I tried to meticulously select the best stuff out there.
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