Microsoft Word guides
- Effective Onscreen Editing: New Tools for an Old Profession by Geoff Hart
- Making Word Work for You: An Editor's Intro to the Tools of the Trade by Hilary Powers and the Editorial Freelancers Association
- Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step-by-Step published by Microsoft Press
- Microsoft Word 2003 Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks by Jinger Simon
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2003 by Maria Langer
Copyediting guides
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler
- Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies
- Copyediting newsletter
- Editors on Editing, edited by Gerald Gross
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
- Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tricks for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty
- Substance & Style: Instruction and Practice in Copyediting by Mary Stoughton
- The Associated Press Guide to News Writing: The Resource for Professional Journalists by Rene J. Cappon
- The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law published by Associated Press (new edition published July 2007)
- The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (now available on CD-ROM)
- The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS): The Easy Way! by Peggy M. Houghton (Author), Timothy J. Houghton (Author), Michele M. Pratt (Editor)
- The Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn
- The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists by Arthur Plotnik
- The Elements of Style by Willliam Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
- The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
- The Gregg Reference Manual, 9th Edition by William A. Sabin
- The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago by Carol Fisher Saller
- Words Into Type, 3rd Edition published by Prentice Hall
- Write Right! by Jan Venolia
- Your Own Words by Barbara Wallraff
Writing for the Web
- Content Critical by Gerry McGovern and Rob Norton
- Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
- Developing Online Content by Irene Hammerich and Claire Harrison
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney
- Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works by Janice (Ginny) Redish
- The Web Content Style Guide by Gerry McGovern, Rob Norton and Catherin O'Dow
- The Web Writer's Guide: Tips and Tools by Darlene Maciuba-Koppe
- Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age by Constance Hale and Jessie Scanlon
- Writing for the Web, 4th Ed. by Crawford Kilian
Reference
- Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory published by Penguin
- English: history, diversity and change by David Graddol, Dick Leith and Joan Swann
- High Definition: An A to Z Guide to Personal Technology by the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries
- HTML for the World Wide Web, 4th Edition by Elizabeth Castro
- HTML in 10 Simple Steps or Less by Robert Fuller
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition
- The McGraw-Hill Desk Reference for Editors, Writers, and Proofreaders(with CD-ROM)
Career guides
- The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube by Michelle Goodman
- My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire by Michelle Goodman
- The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business
by Emira Mears and Lauren Bacon
Miscellaneous
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
- The Mac Is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams
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