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Academic Skills in Computer Science (ASiCS)
Lecture with exercise (WS 13) - LiteratureBooks
The complete list of books is contained in the slide set with the administrative data. Here is a subset:
- [Parks] A. Franklin Parks, James A. Levernier, Ida Masters Hollowell. Structured Paragraphs and Essays. Bedford/St. Martins. (A wonderful basic book about writing.)
- [Schaum] Molly McClain, Jacqueline D. Roth. Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays. McGraw-Hill.
- [Pellegrino] Victor C. Pellegrino. A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs. Maui arThoughts Company, Hawaii.
- [Ross] Bruce Ross-Larson. Powerful Paragraphs. W. W. Norton.
- [WiCo] Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb. Style Toward Clarity and Grace. The University of Chicago Press.
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Books to read along the course
Helmut Schmidt. Einmischungen. Ausgewählte Zeit-Artikel von 1983 bis heute. Goldmann.
Available in more than 10 copies from the
SLUB.
Free Books on Writing
There are some interesting old books on writing, now free of copyright, which can be downloaded from the gutenberg website.
- Joseph Devlin. How To Speak And Write Correctly. Edited by Theodore Waters. The Christian Herald, New York, 1910. Ebook #6409
- Sherwin Cody. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study. The Old Greek Press, Chicago, 1903. Ebook #19719