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Style guides are used by writers to keep up with changes to the language. Also for improving their own use of the language (words, phrases and grammar) in their writing. Often newspapers put out a style guide for their writers and editors.

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• 11 Rules of Writing Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
• 11 Rules of Writing A concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
• A Research Guide for Students How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.
• A Word With You A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
• 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.
• Acronym Finder Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
• Acronym Finder Searchable database of 375,000+ acronyms and meanings, with over 90,000 military and government acronyms.
• Ask Oxford Word of the Day, Quote of the Week, and several word games. In addition, there is a question form to Ask the Experts and receive the Final Word on English language questions.
• AskOxford.com For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
• AskOxford.com For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage; to search a dictionary of words, names or quotations; for help with writing; for crosswords and puzzles.
• 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.
• Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
• Beverly Lucey: Language Wrangler Beverly Lucey's articles on education, marriage, society, consumers, politics, media, and language. Playful and serious work.
• Braintique: The Natural Way to Write A process and system for helping people become better writers. The site includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.
• CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.
• Cliche List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
• Cliche Finder Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
• Cliche Finder A searchable database of overused expressions, with a fun feature creating a random list.
• 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.
• Common Errors in English Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
• Common Errors in English A Washington State University's explanation of hundreds of common errors made by native speakers of English.
• Common Errors in English An explanation of common English usage errors and how to avoid making them.
• Common Errors in English Clear and concise explanation of the difference between correct and incorrect usage in American English spelling, grammar and idiom, with entertaining examples.
• Correct Punctuation A brief guide to correct English punctuation.
• Crazy Colour Writing Skills Handbook Includes useful tips to help your spelling including homophones, words often misspelled, a dictionary search, an introduction to fingerspelling. Grammar, spelling and writing style guide.
• Dan Kurland's Criticalreading.com Explains the fundamentals of critical reading and writing. Analyzing choices of content, language, and structure.
• Deadwood Phrases Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z.
• Deadwood Phrases A list of unnecessary expressions which can be replaced by single words, making sentences less convoluted.
• Dr. NAD's Prig Page. Tests of usage, built interactively.
• 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.
• Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar Help on punctuation and another page on grammar.
• Ewriting Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
• Exploring English An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.
• Findaphrase.com Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.
• Focusing on Words Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
• Focusing on Words An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
• Frequently Asked Questions about English Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
• Garbl's Editorial Style Manual Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
• Glossarist.com A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms Rhetorical figures that come with examples. From the Classics Department at the University of Kentucky.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 creativity. Writing exercises.
• 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.
• Literary Terms / Rhetorical Devices "A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices including an Introduction and a Self Test."
• 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.
• Modern Language Association (MLA) Nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study and teaching of language and literature. Includes bibliography, style guide, job board.
• NLRB Style Manual A guide for legal writing in plain English.
• 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.
• Phrases Thesaurus A resource for writers. Enter a single word and it will return a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way. In English.
• Plain English Campaign An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
• Plain English Campaign Dedicated to the destruction of gobbledygook, legalese, small print and bureaucratic language. Crystal Mark Award for good use of plain English.
• Plain English Campaign Working internationally to try to get public information written in plain English, instead of using gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. Includes examples, with annual awards for the worst offenders.
• Plain Language A guide to help writers avoid confusing language and long-windedness. Can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF.
• 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.
• Right Words A series of short articles about grammar and punctuation, with light hearted examples of common mistakes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL) An organization of people determined to resist the abuse and misuse of English in the news media and elsewhere.
• 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.
• 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.
• That's Right Words Articles about grammar information and hints. New Zealand site. Errs on the side of "correctness," not that of modern usage.
• 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 Economist Style Guide Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
• The Glossarist Searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
• The MLA Bibliography Composer Free service that simplifies the process of creating and editing MLA-style bibliographies.
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing Comprehensive but concise, practical and example-filled, award-winning guide to writing college essays. Free.
• 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 Sports Cliche List A searchable collection of cliches used by American teams, fans, coaches and commentators, with humorous comments and sound clips.
• 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.
• Verbage If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.
• Verbivore Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
• Wired Style Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.
• 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 Quests for Word Seekers Searchable dictionary of word origins, organized in cross-referenced thematic lists by Latin and/or Greek roots. English entries are also defined.
• 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.
• Wordlab Creating meaningful names from ordinary words.
• Words, Words, and More Words Discussions and articles concerning words.
• WordWizard Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
• World Wide Words 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.
• World Wide Words More than 1400 pages which explore the history, evolution, byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.
• World Wide Words Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
• Writer's Dreamtools A series of useful tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block.
• Writing For Multimedia Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
• Yale 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.
• Yale Web Style Guide A manual covering graphic and information design, page layout, graphics, site navigation, and multimedia content.

 

 

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