James D. Lester (1935–2006)

The best book for writing and sourcing research papers...and what I'm thinking about is writing my family history.

This is a pretty good reference guide on writing...one used in one of my college classes.

This book saved my sanity when I was learning to write research papers the right way as an undergraduate English major. I used it for every paper I wrote, both as an undergrad and also when getting my Master's degree. I had a reputation within the English dept. for writing good papers. Part of that was my own good ideas (OK, that's not very modest, is it), but a lot of it was from using this book and learning to do it right. Thank you, James D. Lester!

This is a book that was required in college and I still use today. Great to have around, even if your not an avid writer like myself.