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Focusing on Words - Subscription-based site for vocabulary
development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English
words.
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11 Rules of Writing - Concise guide to some of the most
frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
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Acronym Finder - Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and
meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology,
government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
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WordWizard - Portal for word lovers. Learn about word
meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors.
Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
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William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style - Online
publication of Strunk's classic guide to the English language.
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Writing For Multimedia - Style guide for multimedia.
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Cliche Finder - Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
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Cliche - List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical
and literary notes on their use.
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The Slot - A regularly updated style guide and webzine for
copy editors by Bill Walsh.
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Help in discovering,
organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative,
and exploratory essays.
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Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - The
University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence
courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
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Wired Style - Notes on the emerging language of technology.
Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.
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Verbivore - Richard Lederer's page, with contact information
and a handful of his language-loving articles.
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American English - Canadian-American/British translation.
Notes on American English, British English, and Canadian English,
in spelling and word choice.
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Rhetorical Figures - From alliteration to zeugma, and
everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
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Word Fugitives - An interactive column by The Atlantic's
Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends
new words to fill them.
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A Word With You - A daily on-line column, featuring little
known facts about well known words and phrases.
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Wordiness - A list of words and phrases to purge from your
writing.
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Word Lab - A message board where you can request and
brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases,
slogans and slang.
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Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Style manual for
abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, punctuation,
spelling and word usage. [Update URL]
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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.
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The Tongue Untied - Grammar, punctuation and style for
journalists.
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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.
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Good Grammar, Good Style - Articles and answers to frequently
asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and
bibliography.
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KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide - Designed to help you
bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points
of style.
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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.
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Loquacious Language - A column (running for three years)
devoted to language (and mostly grammar)
by Michael Tseng.
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Guide to Grammar and Style - The information ranges from copy
editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information
about the writing craft.
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AmeriSpeak - "Expressions of our American ancestors." The
colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th
centuries.
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The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases,
euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by
occasion.
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The Word Centre - Consulting firm dedicated to training
businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional
editing services.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WordWatch - Digs up a word or phrase out of the Bank of
English and holds it up for inspection and comment.
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Grammar Slammer - This help file indexes style and usage,
capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common
mistakes and a grammar glossary.
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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.
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A Research Guide for Students - How to write research papers,
do presentations, and more. Virtual library of useful URLs
arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.
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Adding Value to your Links - A bulleted guide to using links
effectively in hypertext writing.
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Common Errors in English - Catalogue of writing or speaking
mistakes and easily confusible words, with corrections.
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Plain English Campaign - An independent group fighting for
plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook,
jargon and legalese.
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Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
- Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and
prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
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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.
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Top20Composition.com - Online directory for grammar, spelling,
puncuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading
resources.
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Dr. NAD's Prig Page. - Tests of usage, built interactively.
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Guides for Better Science Writing - Bibliography of style
manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides
for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and
mathematics.
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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.
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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.
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That's Right Words - Articles about grammar information and
hints. Australian site. Errs on the side of "correctness," not
that of modern usage.
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The Sports Cliche List - A large, searchable collection of
sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
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Deadwood Phrases - Prune the deadwood phrases from your
writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z.
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Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - A list of lesser-known features
in English writing. You know what most of these are, you just
didn't know what they were called. Hendiadys, holonyms, hypernyms,
and more.
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Frequently Asked Questions about English - Answers to common
questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
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Words, Words, and More Words - We use words to communicate, to
connect, to convince, to change minds, to entertain, to play, to
work and more. Explore the world of words on the Internet.
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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.
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Episodic Writing - Thomas Wolfe, episodic writing, and the
future of literary fiction beyond the book.
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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.
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CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder - An in-depth look at the words
we use from CBC News.
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Scribe.com - An ever increasing list of free hints and tips on
punctuation. Also, tips about page layout, html and software. Free
newsletter.
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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.
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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.
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Suite101: English Grammar and Style - Archive of articles
about English grammar and style.
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Logophilia - The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries.
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Exploring English - An online tutorial for the parts of speech
with style notes for the English Language.
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The Cool Word of the Day Page - From York University in
Toronto, Canada.
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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.
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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.
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The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - An interactive site
that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
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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.
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Linguistricks.com - About words and word usage.
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Pseudo Dictionary - The dictionary for words that wouldn't
make it into dictionaries.
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Verbage - If you are looking for just the right word, you may
find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.
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AskOxford.com - For questions on English grammar, spelling,
and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
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Language Wrangler - Provocative essays on word usage, writing
ideas and style.
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Glossarist.com - A searchable directory of thousands of
glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and
definitions on hundreds of subjects.
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World Wide Words - Explores some of the byways history,
quirks, curiosities and evolution of the English language. Columns
on a variety of subjects.
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Plain Language Action Network - Promoting clearer
communication between the public and governement. This site has
resources for writers to attain that goal.
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The Philosophy of Punctuation - Paul Robinson's classic essay
on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
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How to Write an Explication - Step-by-step directions to
writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
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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.
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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.
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Word Quests - Word lists that provide thematic units of
English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
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