Online Resources

The Center Piece: find some of my posts about working in a writing center at the official blog of the Stevens Institute of Technology Writing and Communications Center

Purdue Online Writing Lab: an excellent, one-stop resource for writers of research papers and a tool that I share with all my college-level writing students

Grammar Girl: these “quick and dirty tips for better writing” make grammar an accessible and even fun subject

Books

General Writing Advice

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

Grammar

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Creative Writing

Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola

The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises that Transform Your Fiction by Brian Kiteley

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainier Maria Rilke