ELS (English Language Studies) Subject Guide 

English Studies : an introduction to the discipline(s) / edited by Bruce McComiskey

Main Stacks PE1072.E57 2006

This resource contains chapters on every discipline within English studies.  Areas of coverage include: creative writing, linguistics, rhetoric, composition, literary criticism and critical theory.

A Writer’s Reference / Diana Hacker

(status: in process, find copies in other I-Share Libraries)

Reference PE1408.H2778 2003

This reference serves as a useful guide to writing in the English language.  Writing conventions covered include: composing and revising, document design, effective sentences, word choices, grammatical sentences, ESL trouble spots, punctuation, spelling and mechanics, research writing, MLA documentation, alternative styles of documentation, and basic grammar.

Engaging Grammar : practical advice for real classrooms / Amy Benjamin with Tom Oliva

Main Stacks LB1631.B382 2007

This resource provides essential information regarding English language grammar.  The content of the work includes essential understandings, elements and natural expertise, usage and mechanics, as well as information regarding classroom practice and grammar in standardized tests.

Roget’s Descriptive Word Finder : a dictionary/thesaurus of adjectives / Barbara A. Kipfer

Reference PE1591.K544 2003

This reference offers guidance in choosing suitable English language adjectives to enhance written works.  It acts as a thesaurus, and a dictionary, arranged in 572 categories. 

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English Language 2nd ed./ David Crystal

Reference PE1072.C68 2003

This reference includes World English and Internet English.  It provides updated statistics, further reading suggestions, and additional reference lists.

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 4th ed.

(4th edition is a 2006 publication)

Reference PE1628.A623 2000

This reference contains 10,000 English language words and definitions.  Entries supply additional information on synonyms, usage, or word history.  The dictionary offers 4,000 color photographs, maps, and illustrations.

Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, saying, and quotation 2nd ed./ edited by Susan Ratcliffe

Reference PN6080.O945 2002

This reference provides proverbs, phrases, and quotations from biblical times to the present.  Over 12,000 entries in the new 2006 edition, includes contributions from politics, high technology, and popular culture.

Encyclopedia of Swearing : the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language, and ethnic slurs in the English-speaking world / Geoffrey Hughes

Reference PE3724.03H84 2006

This reference covers the history, sociology, and literary uses of foul language, profanity, oaths, and ethnic slurs in the English language.  A wide range of subjects is utilized, bibliographies are included.

A dictionary of slang and unconventional English : colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized / Eric Partridge ; edited by Paul Beale

Reference PE3721.P3 2002

This reference concerns itself with alternative English language, as the title states, the work includes: colloquialisms, catch phrases, fossilised jokes, puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms, and such "Americanisms" assimilated and naturalized into the English language as used in America.