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Top20Composition.com Top20Composition.com: Online directory for grammar, spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources. (Style Guides) http://www.top20composition.com NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer 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. (Style Guides) http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/ E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing 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. (Style Guides) http://www.e-dition.net/dictionary.html Wordiness Wordiness: A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing. (Style Guides) http://web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html Phrases Thesaurus 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. (Style Guides) http://www.phrasefinder.co.uk Suite101: English Grammar and Style Suite101: English Grammar and Style: Archive of articles about English grammar and style. (Style Guides) http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/english_grammar_style Dan Kurland's Criticalreading.com 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. (Style Guides) http://www.critical-reading.com Word Quests Word Quests: Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources. (Style Guides) http://www.wordquests.info Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English: Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references. (Style Guides) http://www.bartleby.com/68/ CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder: An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News. (Style Guides) http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/ Word Fugitives Word Fugitives: An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them. (Style Guides) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/index.htm The Economist's Style Guide The Economist's Style Guide: Entertaining and instructive in-house guide to writing and usage. (Style Guides) http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/index.cfm Glossarist.com Glossarist.com: A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects. (Style Guides) http://www.glossarist.com/ AskOxford.com AskOxford.com: For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations. (Style Guides) http://www.askoxford.com/ Good Grammar, Good Style Good Grammar, Good Style: Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography. (Style Guides) http://www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm Yale Style Manual Yale 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. (Style Guides) http://www.webstyleguide.com/ A Research Guide for Students A Research Guide for Students: How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. (Style Guides) http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html Cliche Site 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. (Style Guides) http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp Word Lab Word Lab: A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang. (Style Guides) http://www.wordlab.com/ The Visual Thesaurus The Visual Thesaurus: An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations. (Style Guides) http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html How to Write an Explication How to Write an Explication: Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided. (Style Guides) http://www.geocities.com/lrampey/2131/explicate.htm Writing For Multimedia Writing For Multimedia: Style guide for multimedia. (Style Guides) http://home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/contents.htm Common Errors in English Common Errors in English: Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections. (Style Guides) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ Focusing on Words Focusing on Words: Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words. (Style Guides) http://www.wordfocus.com/ Dr. NAD's Prig Page. Dr. NAD's Prig Page.: Tests of usage, built interactively. (Style Guides) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5229/p_.htm Pseudo Dictionary Pseudo Dictionary: The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries. (Style Guides) http://www.pseudodictionary.com/index.php Exploring English Exploring English: An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language. (Style Guides) http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/ NLRB Style Manual NLRB Style Manual: A guide for legal writing in plain English. (Style Guides) http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/legal/manuals/stylemanual.asp Guides for Better Science Writing Guides for Better Science Writing: Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics. (Style Guides) http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html Frequently Asked Questions about English Frequently Asked Questions about English: Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation. (Style Guides) http://www.alexcommunications.com/faq.htm Adding Value to your Links Adding Value to your Links: A bulleted guide to using links effectively in hypertext writing. (Style Guides) http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/value.html APA Style APA Style: Official American Psychological Association site includes frequently asked questions, guidelines for electronic media citations and spelling and ordering information. (Style Guides) http://www.apastyle.org/ The Tongue Untied The Tongue Untied: Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists. (Style Guides) http://grammar.uoregon.edu/ Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature 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. (Style Guides) http://www.mindspring.com/~spellorg/ Words, Words, and More Words Words, Words, and More Words: Discussions and articles concerning words. (Style Guides) http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/words Macedon's Taberna: The Craft of Writing 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. (Style Guides) http://members.aol.com/MacedonPg/writing.htm Wired Style Wired Style: Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997. (Style Guides) http://hotwired.wired.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/ SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors 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. (Style Guides) http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/wrerrors/wrerrors.html Cliche Finder Cliche Finder: Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches. (Style Guides) http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays. (Style Guides) http://www.powa.org/ A.Word.ADay 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. (Style Guides) http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html The Book of Cliches The Book of Cliches: A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion. (Style Guides) http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/ Linguistic Phenomena/Devices Linguistic Phenomena/Devices: A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms. (Style Guides) http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html World Wide Words World Wide Words: Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS. (Style Guides) http://www.worldwidewords.org/ Suite 101: Communications Skills 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. (Style Guides) http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/communications_skills Modern Language Association Modern Language Association: The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style. (Style Guides) http://www.mla.org KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide: Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style. (Style Guides) http://www.kanten.com/styleguide/frames1.html Acronym Finder Acronym Finder: Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms. (Style Guides) http://www.AcronymFinder.com/ Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918) 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. (Style Guides) http://www.bartleby.com/141/ American English American English: Canadian-American/British translation. Notes on American English, British English, and Canadian English, in spelling and word choice. (Style Guides) http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html Cliche Cliche: List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. (Style Guides) http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota: The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here. (Style Guides) http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/ The Word Centre The Word Centre: Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services. (Style Guides) http://www.wordcentre.co.uk Grammar Slammer Grammar Slammer: This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary. (Style Guides) http://englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm That's Right Words That's Right Words: Articles about grammar information and hints. New Zealand site. Errs on the side of "correctness," not that of modern usage. (Style Guides) http://www.rightwords.co.nz/backnews.html Language Wrangler Language Wrangler: Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style. (Style Guides) http://www.languagewrangler.com/ Plain English Campaign Plain English Campaign: An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. (Style Guides) http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/ The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook: An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills. (Style Guides) http://www.wonderfulwritingskillsunhandbook.com/ Verbivore Verbivore: Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles. (Style Guides) http://pw1.netcom.com/%7erlederer/index.htm AmeriSpeak AmeriSpeak: "Expressions of our American ancestors." The colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. (Style Guides) http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm Guide to Grammar and Writing 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. (Style Guides) http://webster.commnet.edu/hp/pages/darling/original.htm Rhetorical Figures Rhetorical Figures: From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here. (Style Guides) http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html Findaphrase.com Findaphrase.com: Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases. (Style Guides) http://www.findaphrase.com/ The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing 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. (Style Guides) http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com Garbl's Editorial Style Manual Garbl's Editorial Style Manual: Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage. (Style Guides) http://garbl.home.comcast.net/stylemanual/ The Sports Cliche List The Sports Cliche List: A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon. (Style Guides) http://www.sportscliche.com A Word With You A Word With You: A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases. (Style Guides) http://www.wordwithyou.com/ The Cool Word of the Day Page The Cool Word of the Day Page: From York University in Toronto, Canada. (Style Guides) http://www.edu.yorku.ca/~wotd/ The Philosophy of Punctuation The Philosophy of Punctuation: Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes. (Style Guides) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/721833.html WordWizard WordWizard: Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language. (Style Guides) http://www.wordwizard.com/ Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar: Help on punctuation and another page on grammar. (Style Guides) http://www.einfoweb.com/punctuation/ What is Good Hypertext Writing? 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. (Style Guides) http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/ht/writing.html Deadwood Phrases Deadwood Phrases: Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z. (Style Guides) http://www.pnl.gov/ag/usage/deadwood.html 11 Rules of Writing 11 Rules of Writing: Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. (Style Guides) http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/ Guide to Grammar and Style Guide to Grammar and Style: The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft. (Style Guides) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ Logophilia Logophilia: The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries. (Style Guides) http://www.logophilia.com/logophilia.html SecretariesUSA.com SecretariesUSA.com: Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms. (Style Guides) http://secretariesUSA.com Plain Language Action Network Plain Language Action Network: Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal. (Style Guides) http://www.plainlanguage.gov/ Verbage Verbage: If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own. (Style Guides) http://www.oceansiderevolution.com/verbage