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.
Suite101: English Grammar and Style
Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
The Book of Cliches
A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
The Economist Style Guide
Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
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.
The Philosophy of Punctuation
Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
The Sports Cliche List
A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
The Tongue Untied
Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
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.
The Well Bred Sentence
This book offers an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation.
The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook
An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
The Word Centre
Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
The Word Nerds
A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do.
Top20Composition.com
Online directory for grammar, spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.
Tribe: Linguistics
Group for discussions of words and language.
Tribe: Word Freaks
Group for people who love discussing words and writing style.
Tribe: Words of Power
For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive learning.
Verbivore
Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
Word Fugitives
An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
Word Lab
A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
Word Quests
Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
Word Rogues
Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also contains active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites.
Wordelizer
Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick search of several word and language related sites.
Wordiness
A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.
Words, Words, and More Words
Discussions and articles concerning words.
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