Good Grammar, Good Style
Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
Grammar Slammer
This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.
Guide to Grammar and Style
The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
Guides for Better Science Writing
Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
How to Write an Explication
Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide
Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style.
Language is a Virus
Writing toys, games, and gizmo to inspire your creativity. Writing exercises.
Language Wrangler
Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style.
Lingo Factory
A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words.
Linguistic Phenomena/Devices
A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
Macedon's Taberna: The Craft of Writing
Commentary on various technical aspects of writing: the nuts and bolts of narrative.
Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
NLRB Style Manual
A guide for legal writing in plain English.
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.
Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
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.
Plain English Campaign
An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
Plain Language Action Network
Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
Pseudo Dictionary
The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.
Ralph's Manual of Style
A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph.
Rhetorical Figures
From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
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.
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.
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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