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    A QUICK GUIDE TO WRITING RESOURCES(FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH)

    ACADEMIC SERVICES GRADUATE DIVISION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

    For more information regarding writing resources for non-native speakers of English, please contact Sabrina Soracco,Head of Academic Services, 321 Sproul Hall, (510) 643-9392, [email protected],http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/acapro/academic_services.shtml.

    Copyright 2006 Regents of the University of California (November 2006)

    DICTIONARIES

    Longman Dictionary of American English: Your Complete Guide to American English. White Plains, NY:Pearson Education (Longman), 2002.

    Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 1993.[Also available online at http://search.eb.com/.]

    Oxford English Dictionary. Second edition. Twenty volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.[The OED is also available online at http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl.]

    Websters Third New International Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 1993.[http://collections.chadwyck.com/mwd/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx]

    GRAMMARS

    Frodesen, Jan and Janet Eyring. Grammar Dimensions 4: Form, Meaning, and Use. Boston, Massachusetts:Heinle & Heinle, 2000.

    The Great Grammar Challenge. Edited by Priscilla S. Taylor and Mary T. Stoughton. Alexandria, Virginia: EEI Press, 1997.

    The New Websters Grammar Guide. Edited by Madeline Semmelmeyer and Donald O. Bolander. New York:Berkley Books, 1991.

    Shertzer, Margaret D. The Elements of Grammar. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

    BOOKS ON EDITING AND WRITING

    Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago, Illinois:University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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

    Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills. A Course for Nonnative Speakers of English. Michigan Series in English for Academic & ProfessionalPurposes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

    ____________. English in Todays Research World: A Writing Guide. [This is a sequel to Academic Writing for Graduate Students and is an advanced text mainly designed for junior scholars and graduate studentswho are not native speakers of English.] Michigan Series in English for Academic and ProfessionalPurposes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.