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| » Site title: The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words » Site description: Writing about and classifying words and language. |
| » Site title: AskOxford.com » Site description: For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations. |
| » Site title: A.Word.ADay » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918) » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English » Site description: Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references. |
| » Site title: The Book of Cliches » Site description: A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion. |
| » Site title: Braintique: The Natural Way to Write » Site description: A process and system for helping people become better writers. Includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors. |
| » Site title: CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder » Site description: An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News. |
| » Site title: Cliche » Site description: List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. |
| » Site title: Cliche Finder » Site description: Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches. |
| » Site title: Cliche Site » Site description: Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function. |
| » Site title: Cliche Web » Site description: Thousands of cliches. Fully searchable and interactive. Formerly Steve's Cliche List. Since 1995. |
| » Site title: Common Errors in English » Site description: Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections. |
| » Site title: Correct Punctuation » Site description: A brief guide to correct English punctuation. |
| » Site title: Dr. NAD's Prig Page. » Site description: Tests of usage, built interactively. |
| » Site title: Economist Style Guide » Site description: Based on the guide given to all journalists at The Economist. Includes quiz. |
| » Site title: The Economist Style Guide » Site description: Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist. |
| » Site title: E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing » Site description: A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases. |
| » Site title: Ewriting » Site description: Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions. |
| » Site title: Exploring English » Site description: An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language. |
| » Site title: Findaphrase.com » Site description: Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases. |
| » Site title: Focusing on Words » Site description: Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words. |
| » Site title: Frequently Asked Questions about English » Site description: Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation. |
| » Site title: Garbl's Editorial Style Manual » Site description: Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage. |
| » Site title: Glossarist.com » Site description: A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects. |
| » Site title: Good Grammar, Good Style » Site description: Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography. |
| » Site title: Grammar Slammer » Site description: This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary. |
| » Site title: Guardian Unlimited - Style Guide » Site description: The British newspaper's guide to word usage, grammar and punctuation, edited by David Marsh and Nikki Marshall. Includes 1928 edition in pdf format. |
| » Site title: Guide to Grammar and Style » Site description: The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft. |
| » Site title: Guide to Grammar and Writing » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Guides for Better Science Writing » Site description: Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics. |
| » Site title: How to Write an Explication » Site description: Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided. |
| » Site title: Illiterate Businesses » Site description: An unabashed rant weblog featuring English-language business signs with grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. Includes a free sign editing offer. |
| » Site title: Lingo Factory » Site description: A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words. |
| » Site title: LousyWriter.com » Site description: A free online resource to improve your writing skills. Learn how to write, how to use words, how to write sentences, and how to communicate effectively. |
| » Site title: Modern Language Association » Site description: The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. Includes a guide to MLA style. |
| » Site title: NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota » Site description: The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here. |
| » Site title: Paradigm Online Writing Assistant » Site description: Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays. |
| » Site title: Pataphysics, Pataphors and Pataphorology » Site description: An extended metaphor that creates its own context. A science invented by P.A. Lopez and derived from the science of 'pataphysics as described by Alfred Jarry. |
| » Site title: The Philosophy of Punctuation » Site description: Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes. |
| » Site title: Phrases Thesaurus » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Plain English at Work » Site description: Online guide to using plain English and changing the corporate style. Produced for Australia's Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs and the Australian National Training Authority. |
| » Site title: Plain English Campaign » Site description: An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. |
| » Site title: Plain Language Action Network » Site description: Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal. |
| » Site title: Pseudo Dictionary » Site description: The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries. |
| » Site title: Ralph's Manual of Style » Site description: A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph. |
| » Site title: Rhetorical Figures » Site description: From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here. |
| » Site title: 11 Rules of Writing » Site description: Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. |
| » Site title: SDSU Writing Rescource Crib » Site description: Offering tips and lively description on grammar, English, and writing. |
| » Site title: SecretariesUSA.com » Site description: Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms. |
| » Site title: Slang City » Site description: Writing about American slang. |
| » Site title: Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature » Site description: Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers. |
| » Site title: SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: The Sports Cliche List » Site description: A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon. |
| » Site title: Suite 101: Workplace Communications » Site description: Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences. |
| » Site title: Suite101: English Grammar » Site description: Archive of articles about English grammar and style. |
| » Site title: Suite101: Word Play » Site description: Archived discussions and articles concerning words. |
| » Site title: The Tongue Untied » Site description: Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists. |
| » Site title: Tribe: Linguistics » Site description: Group for discussions of words and language. |
| » Site title: Tribe: Word Freaks » Site description: Group for people who love discussing words and writing style. |
| » Site title: Tribe: Words of Power » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Urban Dictionary » Site description: A veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its readers. |
| » Site title: Verbage » Site description: If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own. |
| » Site title: Verbivore » Site description: Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles. |
| » Site title: The Visual Thesaurus » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Web Typography » Site description: The elements of typographic style applied to the web. |
| » Site title: The Well Bred Sentence » Site description: This book offers an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation. |
| » Site title: The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook » Site description: An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills. |
| » Site title: The Word Centre » Site description: Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services. |
| » Site title: The Word Detective » Site description: The online version of the newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. An extensive column and word archive. Written by Evan Morris. |
| » Site title: Word Files of Confusing English Words » Site description: A presentation of English words that are often confusing with definitions and context examples. |
| » Site title: Word Fugitives » Site description: An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them. |
| » Site title: Word Info » Site description: An English vocabulary dictionary with free searches of words from Latin and Greek sources. |
| » Site title: Word Lab » Site description: A message board where you can request and brainstorm words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang. |
| » Site title: The Word Nerds » Site description: A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do. |
| » Site title: Word News » Site description: Efforts have been made to provide some of the best thoughts, ancient and modern, that are particularly appealing for our time and to promote a greater appreciation for the English language. |
| » Site title: Word Quests » Site description: Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources. |
| » Site title: Word Rogues » Site description: Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also includes active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites. |
| » Site title: Word Spy » Site description: The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries. |
| » Site title: Wordelizer » Site description: Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick search of several word and language related sites. |
| » Site title: Wordiness » Site description: A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing. |
| » Site title: WordWizard » Site description: Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language. |
| » Site title: World Wide Words » Site description: 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. |
| » Site title: Writer's Dreamtools » Site description: A series of useful tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block. |
| » Site title: Writing For Multimedia » Site description: Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia. |
| » Site title: WritingDEN » Site description: Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills. |
| » Site title: Yale Style Manual » Site description: 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. |