📚 Writing Skills

Books with writing skills on their catalogue record, first published between 1920 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject writing skills in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,359 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Elements of Style	William Strunk, Jr.	1920	288
	The Little, Brown handbook	H. Ramsey Fowler	1969	77
	Letters of note	Shaun Usher	2013	45
	A short guide to writing about literature	Sylvan Barnet	1968	24
	The aims of argument	Timothy W. Crusius	1994	22
	The least you should know about English	Paige Wilson	1994	21
	Bird by Bird	Anne Lamott	1994	16
	When words collide	Lauren Kessler	1984	14
	Rhetorical Memory and Delivery	John Frederick Reynolds	1993	14
	Writing well	Donald Hall	1973	13
	Remembering the Kanji I	James W. Heisig	1985	13
	Speaking with a Purpose	Arthur Koch	2000	11
	Speak Easy	Maggie Eyre	2010	11
	A short guide to writing about history	Richard Marius	1987	10
	Technical Writing	Phillip A. Laplante	2011	10
	Rhetoric	Jennifer Richards	2007	9
	Advanced Public Speaking	Michael J. Hostetler	2012	9
	The Sense of Style	Steven Pinker	2014	9
	The lawyer's guide to writing well	Tom Goldstein	1989	8
	The travel writer's handbook	Louise Purwin Zobel	1980	7
	Business English	Andrea B. Geffner	1982	7
	Introducing metaphor	Rosamund Moon	2004	7
	Writing for film	Darsie Bowden	2006	7
	Several short sentences about writing	Verlyn Klinkenborg	2012	7
	Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process	John McPhee	2017	7
	Dreyer's English	Benjamin Dreyer	2019	7
	The elements of screenwriting	Irwin R. Blacker	1986	6
	Creative Writing	Adele Ramet	1997	6
	The copyeditor's handbook	Amy Einsohn	2000	6
	Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment	Emmanuel Manu	2021	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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