Notebooks

Writing

Recommendations and resources on academic and non-fiction writing.

Recommended

Williams, J. M. (2000). Style: Ten lessons in clarity and grace (6. ed). Longman.
Schimel, J. (2011). Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded. Oxford University Press.
Practical and actionable.
Neelakantan, A. (2021). Write because it makes you think or feel. the Record.
Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English Language; George Orwell. Horizon.
Orwell gives five rules for good writing and adds a sixth: "Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
McPhee J. (2015) The Art of Omission. The New Yorker.
Writing is emotional: it's hard to remove unnecessary sentences that you've written. McPhees shares some personal stories.

Internet resources

Punctuation guide
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Advice on scientific writing by Hermut Grubmüller
Guide to english communication for scientists by Nature
Showcase of Scholarly Writing

YouTube playlists

Writing in the Sciences by Kristin Sainani.
If you're just starting to write scientific prose, watch the series
The Writer's workshop
Writing Style—An Online Guide
Good introduction to English grammar and writing beyond simple definitions.
Grammar and Stylistics: Writing Clearly by Randall Eggert from University of Utah.
Excellent! See, for example, the one on tense and aspect.

If I get time

Kolln, M. J., & Gray, L. S. (2015). Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. Pearson Education.