| 1.
11 Rules of Writing |
| Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. |
| http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/ |
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A Research Guide for Students |
| How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. |
| http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html |
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| 3.
A Word With You |
| A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases. |
| http://www.wordwithyou.com/ |
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| 4.
A.Word.ADay |
| The music and magic of words. This is the website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day. |
| http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html |
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Acronym Finder |
| Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms. |
| http://www.AcronymFinder.com/ |
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| 6.
AmeriSpeak |
| "Expressions of our American ancestors." The colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. |
| http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm |
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APA Style |
| Official American Psychological Association site includes frequently asked questions, guidelines for electronic media citations and spelling and ordering information. |
| http://www.apastyle.org/ |
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| 8.
AskOxford.com |
| For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations. |
| http://www.askoxford.com/ |
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| 9.
Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918) |
| For use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. |
| http://www.bartleby.com/141/ |
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CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder |
| An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News. |
| http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/ |
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| 12.
Cliche |
| List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. |
| http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html |
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Cliche Finder |
| Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches. |
| http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ |
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| 14.
Cliche Site |
| Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function. |
| http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp |
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| 15.
Common Errors in English |
| Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections. |
| http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ |
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Dan Kurland's Criticalreading.com |
| Explains the fundamentals of critical reading and writing. Offers a way to recognize what a text "says," what a text "does," and what a text "means" by analyzing choices of content, language, and structure. |
| http://www.critical-reading.com |
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Dr. NAD's Prig Page. |
| Tests of usage, built interactively. |
| http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5229/p_.htm |
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E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing |
| A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases. |
| http://www.e-dition.net/dictionary.html |
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| 19.
Exploring English |
| An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language. |
| http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/ |
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| 20.
Focusing on Words |
| Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words. |
| http://www.wordfocus.com/ |
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| 21.
Frequently Asked Questions about English |
| Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation. |
| http://www.alexcommunications.com/faq.htm |
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| 22.
Garbl's Editorial Style Manual |
| Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage. |
| http://garbl.home.comcast.net/stylemanual/ |
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| 23.
Good Grammar, Good Style |
| Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography. |
| http://www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm |
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| 24.
Grammar Slammer |
| This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary. |
| http://englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm |
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| 25.
Guides for Better Science Writing |
| Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics. |
| http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html |
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| 26.
How to Write an Explication |
| Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided. |
| http://www.geocities.com/lrampey/2131/explicate.htm |
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KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide |
| Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style. |
| http://www.kanten.com/styleguide/frames1.html |
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| 28.
Language Wrangler |
| Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style. |
| http://www.languagewrangler.com/ |
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| 29.
Logophilia |
| The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries. |
| http://www.logophilia.com/logophilia.html |
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Macedon's Taberna: The Craft of Writing |
| Only 10% of writing is talent (maybe less), another 30% is having something interesting to say. The rest is being able to say it well. Talent and content amount to little without skill, and skill is what we learn. |
| http://members.aol.com/MacedonPg/writing.htm |
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Modern Language Association |
| The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style. |
| http://www.mla.org |
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| 32.
NLRB Style Manual |
| A guide for legal writing in plain English. |
| http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/legal/manuals/stylemanual.asp |
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NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer |
| A free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page, email it, or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft Word. |
| http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/ |
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant |
| Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays. |
| http://www.powa.org/ |
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Phrases Thesaurus |
| A generator of headlines and copy for journalists. Enter a word and the database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to that word. |
| http://www.phrasefinder.co.uk |
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| 37.
Plain English Campaign |
| An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. |
| http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ |
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| 38.
Plain Language Action Network |
| Promoting clearer communication between the public and governement. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal. |
| http://www.plainlanguage.gov/ |
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| 39.
Pseudo Dictionary |
| The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries. |
| http://www.pseudodictionary.com/index.php |
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| 40.
Rhetorical Figures |
| From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here. |
| http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html |
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