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A Research Guide for Students: How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.- www.aresearchguide.com/index.html |
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A Word With You: A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.- www.wordwithyou.com/ |
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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.- www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html |
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Adding Value to your Links: A bulleted guide to using links effectively in hypertext writing.- www.robotwisdom.com/web/value.html |
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AmeriSpeak: "Expressions of our American ancestors." The colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.- www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm |
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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.- www.apastyle.org/ |
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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.- www.bartleby.com/141/ |
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CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder: An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.- cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/ |
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cbc.ca- www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/ |
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Cliche: List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.- www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html |
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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.- www.clichesite.com/index.asp |
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critical-reading.com- www.critical-reading.com/ |
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Dr. NAD's Prig Page.: Tests of usage, built interactively.- www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/5229/p_.htm |
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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.- www.e-dition.net/dictionary.html |
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Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar: Help on punctuation and another page on grammar.- www.einfoweb.com/punctuation/ |
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Exploring English: An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.- www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/ |
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Findaphrase.com: Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.- www.findaphrase.com/ |
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Frequently Asked Questions about English: Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.- www.alexcommunications.com/faq.htm |
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Garbl's Editorial Style Manual: Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.- garbl.home.comcast.net/stylemanual/ |
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Good Grammar, Good Style: Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.- www.protrainco.com/info/grammar.htm |
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Grammar Slammer: This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.- englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm |
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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.- andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ |
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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.- webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm |
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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.- www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html |
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KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide: Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style.- www.kanten.com/styleguide/frames1.html |
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Language Wrangler: Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style.- www.languagewrangler.com/ |
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Linguistic Phenomena/Devices: A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.- www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html |
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Logophilia: The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries.- www.logophilia.com/logophilia.html |
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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.- members.aol.com/MacedonPg/writing.htm |
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nutsandboltsguide.com- www.nutsandboltsguide.com/ |
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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.- www.rhetoric.umn.edu/ |
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.- www.powa.org/ |
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Plain Language Action Network: Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.- www.plainlanguage.gov/ |
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Pseudo Dictionary: The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.- www.pseudodictionary.com/index.php |
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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.- www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/wrerrors/wrerrors.html |
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The Book of Cliches: A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.- utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/ |
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The Cool Word of the Day Page: From York University in Toronto, Canada.- www.edu.yorku.ca/~wotd/ |
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The Economist's Style Guide: Entertaining and instructive in-house guide to writing and usage.- www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/index.cfm |
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The Philosophy of Punctuation: Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.- www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/721833.html |
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The Tongue Untied: Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.- grammar.uoregon.edu/ |
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The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook: An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.- www.wonderfulwritingskillsunhandbook.com/ |
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top20composition.com- www.top20composition.com/ |
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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.- www.oceansiderevolution.com/verbage |
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Verbivore: Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.- pw1.netcom.com/%7erlederer/index.htm |
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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.- kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/ht/writing.html |
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Wired Style: Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.- hotwired.wired.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/ |
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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.- www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/index.htm |
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Wordiness: A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.- web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html |
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wordquests.info- www.wordquests.info/ |
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Words, Words, and More Words: Discussions and articles concerning words.- www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/words |
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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.- www.wordwizard.com/ |
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Writing For Multimedia: Style guide for multimedia.- home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/contents.htm |
