📚 Report Writing

Books with report writing on their catalogue record, first published between 1946 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject report writing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,883 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
	Writing research papers	James D. Lester, Sr.	1967	58
	On Writing Well	William Knowlton Zinsser	1976	33
	Writing with a purpose	James McNab McCrimmon	1950	21
	The Student Writer	Barbara Fine Clouse	1986	19
	Writing arguments	John D. Ramage	1989	17
	Practical guide to writing	Sylvan Barnet	1975	16
	Sentence skills	Langan, John	1979	16
	The St. Martin's Guide to Writing	Rise B. Axelrod	1985	16
	Practical English handbook	Floyd C. Watkins	1965	15
	The Lively Art of Writing	Lucile Vaughan Payne	1965	14
	Report writing for business	Raymond Vincent Lesikar	1961	13
	Back to the Lake	Thomas Cooley	2015	13
	Patterns	Mary Lou Conlin	1983	12
	Reading critically, writing well	Rise B. Axelrod	1987	11
	Writing	James Heffernan	1994	11
	Writing for the mass media	James Glen Stovall	1985	10
	Everyone's an Author with Readings	Andrea Lunsford	2016	10
	College writing skills	Langan, John	1984	9
	Write to learn	Donald Morison Murray	1984	9
	Research	Richard Veit	1989	9
	The Curious Researcher	Bruce P. Ballenger	1994	9
	Signs of Life in the USA	Sonia Maasik	1994	9
	Successful college writing	Kathleen T. McWhorter	1999	9
	The Norton Field Guide to Writing--Fourth Edition	Richard Bullock	2016	9
	The Art of Plain Talk	Rudolf Flesch	1946	8
	Paragraph practice	Kathleen E. Sullivan	1971	8
	How to write your own life story	Lois Daniel	1980	8
	Literature and the writing process	Elizabeth McMahan	1986	8
	A short guide to writing about biology	Jan A. Pechenik	1987	8
	The Brief Bedford Reader	Jane E. Aaron	1994	8

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

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