Reading List for Ph.D. Exam in Technical Writing at Oklahoma State University, 1995-96

• Anderson Paul,New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication and the two essays in Odell/Goswami.
• Aristotle,Rhetoric
• Bacon, Francis,Essays
• Barabas, Christine,Technical Writing in a Corporate Climate: A Study of the Nature of Information
• Barton, Ben, and Marthalee Barton, Various essays
• Bazerman, Charles,Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science
• Beach, Richard,New Directions in Composition Research
• Best, George,The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher
• Brockmann, R. John,Writing Better Computer User Documentation
• Corbett, Edward P. J.,Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
• Croll, Morris Attic and Baroque Prose Style: The Anti-Ciceronian Movement. (Croll and R. S. Crane reviewed a Jones article in Fish's (ed.) Seventeenth Century Prose.)
• D'Angelo, Frank,Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric
• Darwin, Charles,Origin of the Species and notebooks
• Day, Robert,How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
• Day, Robert,Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and other Professionals
• Derrida, Jacques, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
• Dragga, Sam and G. Gong,Editing: The Design of Rhetoric
• Einstein, Albert,Special and General Relativity
• Einstein, Albert, "Generalized Theory of Gravitation" (1950)
• Faraday, Michael,The Chemical History of a Candle
• Felker, Daniel B.,Document Design: A Review of Relevant Research
• Felker, Daniel B.,Guidelines for Document Designers
• Flowers, Linda,Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing and various essays
• Franklin, Benjamin, The electrical essays
• Fry, Edward, Graphical Comprehension: How to Read and Make Graphs and essays on readability
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg, "On the Origins of Philosophical Hermeneutics"
• Gordon, George, The Languages of Communication: A Logical and Psychological Examination
• Gordon, Ian, The Movement of English Prose
• Gould, Stephen Jay,Bully for Brontosaurus
• Gould, Stephen Jay, The Panda's Thumb
• Gould, Stephen Jay, Wonderful Life
• Gunning, Robert,New Guide to More Effective Writing in Business and Industry
• Hales, Stephen,Haemastaticks
• Harris, Elizabeth, Various essays
• Hartley, James,Designing Instructional Text
• Harvey, William,Circulation of the Blood
• Hawking, Stephen,A Brief History of Time
• Hayakawa, S. I.,Language in Thought and Action
• Hirsch, E. D.,The Philosophy of Composition
• Horton, William,Illustrating Computer Documentation and Designing and Writing On-line Documentation
• Huddleston, Rodney,The Sentence in Written English
• Hunt, Morton,The Universe Within
• Jaynes, Julian,The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Jones, Richard, Various essays on 17th/18th century literature
• Kapp, Reginald,The Presentation of Technical Information
• Killingsworth, M. Jimmie & Michael K. Gilbertson,Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication
• Kinneavy, James,A Theory of Discourse
• Kintsch, Walter, Various essays on cognitive psychology
• Kirkman, John,Good Style for Scientific and Engineering Writing, and various essays
• Kuhn, Thomas,The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Lefferts, Robert,How to Prepare Effective Charts and Graphs for Effective Reports
• Littlejohn, Stephen,Theories of Human Communication
• McKim, Robert H.,Experiences in Visual Thinking
• Man, Paul de, "Semiology and Rhetoric"
• Miles, Josephine,Style and Proportion: The Language of Prose and Poetry
• Miller, Carolyn, Various essays about technical writing
• Mosenthal, Peter,Research on Writing: Principles and Methods
• Nash, Walter,Designs in Prose
• Newton, Isaac,New Theory About Light and Colors and The System of the World.
• Nystrand, Martin,The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity between Writers and Readers
• Powell, John Wesley, E xploration of the Colorado River
• Odell, Lee,Writing in Nonacademic Settings and various essays (as author and editor)
• Pearsall, Thomas E.,Audience Analysis for Technical Writing
• Redish, Janice, Various essays
• Rubens, Philip, Various essays on screen design
• Russell, David R.,Writing in the Academic Disciplines, 1870-1990: A Curricular History
• Shannon, Claude,Mathematical Theory of Communication
• Sprat, Thomas,History of the Royal Society
• Thomas, Lewis,The Lives of a Cell
• Thomas, Lewis,Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
• Thomas, Lewis,The Medusa and the Snail
• Tufte, Edward,The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Wallace, Alfred R.,Tropical Nature
• Watson, James,The Double Helix and associated papers
• Watzlawick, Paul,Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes
• Weiss, Edmond,How to Write Usable User Documentation, The Writing System
• White, Jan, Editing by Design, 2nd ed.
• White, Jan,Great Pages: A Commonsense Approach to Effective Desktop Design
• Williams, Joseph,Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace

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