Helpful Little Books for Students who Intend to Write about Literature

Writing About Literature (brief 11th ed.), by Edgar V. Roberts.

They Say / I Say, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein.

Glossary of Literary Terms, by M.H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White.