Trivium

Trivium: Logic, grammar, rhetoric.

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Reading List

General

  • Trivium. [Sister Miriam Joseph]
  • The Well-Educated Mind [Susan Wise Bauer]
  • A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning [James V. Schall]
  • The Lost Tools of Learning [Dorothy L. Sayers]

Practical Logic & Critical Thinking

  • Introduction to Logic. [Irving Copi, Carl Cohen]
  • Practical Logic - An Antidoe for Uncritical Thinking. [Douglas Soccia, Vincent Barry]
  • Practical Logic. [Beardsley]
  • Concise Introduction to Logic [Hurley]
  • Thinking Straight - Principles of Reasoning. [Monroe C. Beardsley]
  • Being Logical - A Guide to Good Thinking. [D. Q. McInerny]
  • Learning to Think Things Through. [Gerald Nosich]
  • The Power of Logic. [Stephen Layman]
  • The Power of Logic. [Frances Howard Snyder, Daniel Howard-Snyder]
  • The Minto Pyramid. [Barbara Minto]
  • Informal Logical Fallacies. [Jacob E. Van Vleet]

Argument and Rhetoric

  • Writing with Reason - Logic for Composition. [Monroe C. Beardsley]
  • Good Reason for Writing - A Text with Readings. [Vincent Barry]
  • Understanding Arguments. [Walter Sinnott-Armstrong]
  • Critical Writing - A Guide to Writing a Paper Using the Concepts and Processes of Critical Thinking. [Gerald Nosich]
  • Steps to Writing Well. [Jean Wyrick]
  • Critical Thinking. [Richard B. Parker, Brooke Noel Moore]
  • Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. [Edward P. J. Corbett]
  • Everyday Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Reading Effective Arguments. [Katherine Mayberry]

Writing

  • How to Write. [Alastair Fowler]
  • Writing Well - The Esential Guide [Mark Tredinnick]
  • Elements of Style. [Strunk, White]
  • Style - Towards Clarity and Grace. [Joseph M. Williams]
  • The Good Grammar Guide. [Richard Palmer]
  • Language in Literature - An Introduction to Stylistics. [Michael Toolan]
  • Words Fail me - What Everyone who Writes Should Know About Writing. [Patricia O’Conner]
  • Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew. [Ursula Le Guin]
  • The Book on Writing - The Ultimate Guide. [Paula LaRocque]
  • Sin and Syntax - How to Write Wicked Good Prose. [Constance Hale]
  • Oxford Essential Guide to Writing
  • The Sense of Style - the Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century!. [Steven Pinker]
  • The Rhetoric of Fiction. [Booth Wayne]
  • The Elements of Eloquence. [Mark Forsyth]

Scientific Writing & Presentation, Research

  • Writing for Computer Science. [Justin Zobel]
  • How to Write Your First Thesis. [Justin Zobel]
  • How to Write a Better Thesis. [Evans, Gruba, Zobel]
  • Scientific Writing - A Reader and Writer’s Guide. [Jean-Luc Lebrun]
  • The Craft of Scientific Writing. [Michael Alley]
  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. [Kate L. Turabian]

Literature

  • Theme and Form. [Beardsley]
  • This Thing Called Literature. [Andrew Bennett]
  • Literature Criticism and Theory. [Andrew Bennett]
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. [H. Porter Abbott]
  • An Introduction to Literature. [Sylvan Barnet]
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Thomas C. Foster]
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