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Arts - Writers Resources - Style Guides

Focusing on Words - Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
11 Rules of Writing - Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
Acronym Finder - Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
WordWizard - Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
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.
Writing For Multimedia - Style guide for multimedia.
Cliche Finder - Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
Cliche - List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
The Slot - A regularly updated style guide and webzine for copy editors by Bill Walsh.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
Wired Style - Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.
Verbivore - Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
American English - Canadian-American/British translation. Notes on American English, British English, and Canadian English, in spelling and word choice.
Rhetorical Figures - From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
Word Fugitives - An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
A Word With You - A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
Wordiness - A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.
Word Lab - A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Style manual for abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, punctuation, spelling and word usage. [Update URL]
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.
The Tongue Untied - Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
Modern Language Association - The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
Good Grammar, Good Style - Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide - Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Digital handouts on grammar and English usage. From subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and argumentative essays. You can submit questions about grammar and writing.
Loquacious Language - A column (running for three years) devoted to language (and mostly grammar) by Michael Tseng.
Guide to Grammar and Style - The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
AmeriSpeak - "Expressions of our American ancestors." The colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
The Word Centre - Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
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.
SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors - We compiled a list of the most common writing errors people tend to make. This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing. This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which you must stop doing.
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.
WordWatch - Digs up a word or phrase out of the Bank of English and holds it up for inspection and comment.
Grammar Slammer - This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.
Yale Style Manual - A style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.
A Research Guide for Students - How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.
Adding Value to your Links - A bulleted guide to using links effectively in hypertext writing.
Common Errors in English - Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusible words, with corrections.
Plain English Campaign - An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English - Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
APA Style - Official American Psychological Association site includes frequently asked questions, guidelines for electronic media citations and spelling and ordering information.
Top20Composition.com - Online directory for grammar, spelling, puncuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.
Dr. NAD's Prig Page. - Tests of usage, built interactively.
Guides for Better Science Writing - Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
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.
Plain English Campaign - Fight to destroy gobbledygook, legalese, small print and bureaucratic language. Give out the Crystal Mark Award for good use of plain English.
That's Right Words - Articles about grammar information and hints. Australian site. Errs on the side of "correctness," not that of modern usage.
The Sports Cliche List - A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
Deadwood Phrases - Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z.
Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
Frequently Asked Questions about English - Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
Words, Words, and More Words - Discussions and articles concerning words.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - Popular, award-winning online writing guide. Authoritative help with research, style, structure, major citation styles, mechanics, and revision.
Episodic Writing - Thomas Wolfe, episodic writing, and the future of literary fiction beyond the book.
Suite 101: Communications Skills - Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.
CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder - An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.
Scribe.com - An ever increasing list of free hints and tips on punctuation. Also, tips about page layout, html and software. Free newsletter.
Garbl's Writing Resources Online - Annotated directory of web sites focusing on English grammar, style, usage, plain language, active writing, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play and books on writing.
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.
Suite101: English Grammar and Style - Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
Logophilia - The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries.
Exploring English - An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.
The Cool Word of the Day Page - From York University in Toronto, Canada.
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.
Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.
The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
What is Good Hypertext Writing? - There is more to writing than putting words next to each other, and there is more to writing hypertext than throwing together a bunch of links. By Julia Degener.
Linguistricks.com - About words and word usage.
Pseudo Dictionary - The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.
Verbage - If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.
AskOxford.com - For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
Language Wrangler - Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style.
Glossarist.com - A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
World Wide Words - Explores some of the byways history, quirks, curiosities and evolution of the English language. Columns on a variety of subjects.
Plain Language Action Network - Promoting clearer communication between the public and governement. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
The Philosophy of Punctuation - Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
How to Write an Explication - Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
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.
Word Quests - Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
The Economist's Style Guide - Entertaining and instructive in-house guide to writing and usage.
Ted's Punctuation Guide - A punctuation guide describing how to use the period, ellipsis, comma, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, parentheses, apostrophe, hyphen, dash, and capitalization.
How to Write Well: Using the Apostrophe - Tutorial on the use of apostrophes for omission and possession.
Grammar for Reading and Writing - An innovative review of grammatical principles essential to reading and writing and a discussion of the varied roles inference plays in understanding the written word.
Common Errors in English - An explanation of common English usage errors and how to avoid making them.
ACE Copyediting - A free monthly self-help writing guide for students of the English language who want to communicate more effectively. Guide covers grammar, punctuation, spelling, cliches, and jargon.
Webgrammar's Place - Tips, tutorials, and resources for writers, students, editors, educators, and web designers. Also, Webgrammar answers questions about American English grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and usage.
The Kings's English, 2nd ed. - Online publication of H.W. Fowler's "The King's English."
Serendipity: Common Errors - An examination of common errors that are becoming generally accepted as correct. A mini-course in English usage.
Reflexive Pronouns - Explanation of usage for reflexive pronouns: myself, himself, herself, themselves, and ourselves. Includes practice sentences and an answer key.
Sentence Diagrams - Diagrams of moderately long and complex sentences are accompanied by explanations for both beginners and experienced diagrammers.
Plain English Training - Online courses in plain English and grammar.
Basic Cozy Grammar Course - A light hearted approach to learning basic English grammar. Featuring 27 lessons contained on two videos with companion workbook/study guide.
Daily Grammar - Improve your writing with free daily e-mail grammar lessons.
English Grammar Tutor - An online grammar book for student editors.
Your Guide to English Prepositions - Software program designed to help users find/know the right preposition in 5 seconds.
"Get It Write" English Grammar and Usage Tips - The site offers a new tip about English grammar and usage every two weeks. Currently the archive contains thirty-four tips. People can subscribe to have the tips sent to their e-mail address free of charge.
Australia's Text Perfection - Offers a copy-editing/proofreading guide and services to polish academic, business and personal writing. Top ten errors explained.
Writers University: Grammar Guide - A collection of essays on appropiate grammar usage in fan fiction.
'Postrophe's Rule! - Archive of naive misuses of apostrophes in written English, with a discussion of likely sources of error and ongoing changes in style.
Focus on Usage and Grammar - This page, provided by The Writer's Place, discusses various problems and rules concerning English grammar, usage, and elements of style.
English 126 HyperTextBook - Modern English Grammar from the Daniel Kies and the College of DuPage.
English Grammar - Clear and practical help with English grammar, primarily directed toward people who are learning English as a second language.
Gallaudet Writer's Handbook - This site is an online version of the grammar and style handbook that was designed specifically to improve the writing skills of deaf and hard of hearing college students.
Grammar and Usage for the Non-Expert - Targeted, nontechnical articles on problems of grammar and usage that even good writers sometimes have trouble with.
Chicago Manual of Style FAQ - FAQ site designed to help CMS users eliminate ambiguities or misunderstandings found in the book itself.
Using English - A fully cross-referenced dictionary of gramatical terms to do with the English language containing more than 250 English grammar entries.
Grammar Gospel - General review of English grammar and style.
Tomato Nation: Sincerely Your's - Essay about incorrect grammar usage, with examples of common errors and advice as to how to avoid them.
Grammarphobia.com - Brought to you by Patricia T. O'Conner, author of "Woe Is I," and the writer Stewart Kellerman.
Fundamental Grammar - NIU English - A comprehensive page covering major word classes, punctuation guides, phrases, clauses and sentence structures accompanied by quizzes.
GrammarStation - Find lessons in English grammar. Topics include subject and verb agreement, proper use of pronouns, and modal verbs.
The Online Writing Project - Provides and organizes writing guides and grammar handouts created by writing centers and English Departments at American universities.
Einfoweb.com - Self-learn English grammar site has the seven parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, conjuctions, and prepositions.
Punctuation Made Simple - Discussion of several of the most useful punctuation marks: the colon, semicolon, comma, dash, and apostrophe.
What's the Plural of `Virus'? - A thorough investigation.
Grammar Help Page - Grammar help written by Ruth and her students and gleaned and linked from a variety of Web sites around the world.
Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks - They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places.
Word Police Academy - Word Police entrance exam, and how to make a grammar citation for crimes against the language.
English Grammar Clinic - An on-line grammar clinic from England. Administered by the Lydbury Centre. Bulletin boards and chat.
Grammar Now - Grammar and composition questions answered within two to three days. Proofreading and editing service are also offered.
The Grammar Lady Online - Mary Newton Bruder offers a one woman hotline and web site to answer quick grammar, punctuation, spelling, and other points about language - and sell her book.
The Grammar Doctor - This site offers tips and advice on grammar and usage. Users are invited to email the site for answers to grammar questions.
Allexperts Grammar Help - Volunteer experts answer your detailed one-on-one questions about grammar and usage for free. Get quick answers to your questions.
The Grammar Guru - Web site of syndicated columnist and author of The Grammatically Correct Handbook. Read columns, book chapters, find out how to order the book.
Grammar Sucks - Free, personalized answers to questions on grammar, language, usage, syntax. It also contains humorous looks at English grammar. Allows for paid work on documents.
Grammar Hotline Directory - Find phone numbers, e-mail addresses, web sites which you can contact for answers to short questions about writing.
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - The website provides an on-line resource for grammar and punctuation usage with lessons, quizzes, and an optional test to evaluate your understanding of the material.
Perry Mason and the Case of Pronouns - Learning the three cases of pronouns with three differnt quizzes with answers. Useful for all ages and different levels of education from elementary school to college.
English Grammar 101 - On-line tutorial English grammar instruction for alternative education settings, language arts classes, home schooling, adult study, and ESL courses.
Grammar and Style Notes - Miscellaneous notes for grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and usage suggestions the author teaches in class.
Pop-Up Grammar - Online English quizzes for grammar instruction site.
English Language Quizzes - From vocabulary to spelling and grammar, english-language quiz questions categorized.
Spell.Com - On-line word and word fragment lookup database. Also features general study aids.
Quiz Hub - Quiz to see how fast you can correctly spell ten randomly-generated misspelled words.
Clear Ink SpellWeb - An evolving experiment in sidesifting the web for useful information. In this case, it lets the web vote on alternative spellings (or web popularity) of words.

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