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• Wordelizer - Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick arts search of several word and language related sites.
• Findaphrase.com - Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and style guides content editors search common phrases.
• Illiterate Businesses - An unabashed rant weblog featuring English-language business signs writers resources with style guides grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. Includes a writers resources free sign style guides editing offer.
• Focusing on Words - Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek style guides roots of English words.
• 11 Rules of Writing - Concise guide to some of the most frequently writers resources violated writers resources rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
• Word Lab - A message board where you can request and arts brainstorm words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, arts slogans and slang.
• Good Grammar, Good Style - Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
• Exploring English - An online tutorial for the parts of speech arts with style arts notes for the English Language.
• The Word Centre - Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
• Word Fugitives - An interactive column by The Atlantic\\'s Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
• Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, writers resources possessives, writers resources punctuation, spelling and word usage.
• Correct Punctuation - A brief guide to correct English punctuation.
• Verbivore - Richard Lederer\\'s page, with contact information and a writers resources handful of his language-loving articles.
• Cliche Finder - Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
• Glossarist.com - A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and style guides topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds style guides of subjects.
• Braintique: The Natural Way to Write - A process and system for helping people become better writers. Includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.
• Wordiness - A list of words and phrases to purge writers resources from your writing.
• Lingo Factory - A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and writers resources then arts trick people into using them regularly as writers resources though they arts are real words.
• Guardian Unlimited - Style Guide - The British newspaper\\'s guide to word usage, grammar style guides and punctuation, edited by David Marsh and Nikki style guides Marshall. Includes 1928 edition in pdf format.
• The Tongue Untied - Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
• Macedon's Taberna: The Craft of Writing - Commentary on various technical aspects of writing: the nuts and bolts of narrative.
• SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors - We compiled a list of the most common arts writing errors people tend to make. This is arts not a primer on grammar or essay-writing. This arts is a checklist of things which you might arts well do and which you must stop doing.
• Urban Dictionary - A veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and arts defined by style guides its readers.
• CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder - An in-depth look at the words we use style guides from CBC News.
• Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918) - For use in English courses in which the practice of style guides composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims style guides to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain style guides English style.
• Tribe: Word Freaks - Group for people who love discussing words and style guides writing style.
• 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 Language Action Network - Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
• Slang City - Writing about American slang.
• Cliche - List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical arts and literary writers resources notes on their use.
• World Wide Words - Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the writers resources English language. New and recent words and phrases are often writers resources featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly writers resources newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.
• Writing For Multimedia - Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
• Pataphysics, Pataphors and Pataphorology - 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.
• A.Word.ADay - The music and magic of words. This is style guides the arts website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), style guides which sends arts a vocabulary word and its definition style guides to the subscribers arts every day.
• WritingDEN - Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills.
• The Well Bred Sentence - Online book offering an intensive course in sentence construction and writers resources punctuation.
• Word Quests - Word lists that provide thematic units of English style guides words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
• How to Write an Explication - Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good style guides and bad examples provided.
• 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.
• Ewriting - Easy to learn electronic writing style that will writers resources speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
• Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English - Kenneth G. Wilson\\'s handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive writers resources examples style guides with hyperlinked cross-references.
• Grammar Slammer - This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, arts abbreviations, punctuation, arts letter writing, common mistakes and a arts grammar glossary.
• Word Spy - The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries.
• 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.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - Digital handouts on grammar and English usage. From writers resources subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises writers resources in parallel structures and argumentative essays. You can writers resources submit questions about grammar and writing.
• English Guides - A guide to English grammar. Also links to writers resources punctuation, style guides spelling, vocabulary, and writing guides.
• The Visual Thesaurus - An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By style guides clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating style guides a spatial map of linguistic associations.
• Writer's Dreamtools - A series of useful tools to enhance writers\\' and students\\' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer\'s block.
• Suite 101: Workplace Communications - Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.
• Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - The University of Minnesota offers a number of arts Internet correspondence arts courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
• LousyWriter.com - A free online resource to improve your writing writers resources skills. writers resources Learn how to write, how to use writers resources words, how writers resources to write sentences, and how to writers resources communicate effectively.
• SecretariesUSA.com - Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, arts spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, arts and business forms.
• Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, arts holonyms, and hypernyms.
• Word Files of Confusing English Words - A presentation of English words that are often writers resources confusing with definitions and context examples.
• Ralph's Manual of Style - A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more arts by a guy named Ralph.
• Tribe: Linguistics - Group for discussions of words and language.
• AskOxford.com - For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. writers resources Search arts a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
• Cliche Site - Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. style guides Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can style guides use the search function.
• The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales arts for times writers resources of trouble. Organized by occasion.
• Rhetorical Figures - From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, arts all the figures of speech are here.
• Guides for Better Science Writing - Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, arts and presentation. style guides Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, arts geology, and mathematics.
• Economist Style Guide - Based on the guide given to all journalists at The writers resources Economist. Includes quiz.
• Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, arts word origins, and other subjects of interest to arts language lovers.
• The Sports Cliche List - A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
• Yale Style Manual - For the design of Web pages and Web writers resources sites. style guides Covers graphic and information design, page layout, writers resources Web graphics, style guides site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia writers resources content.
• Suite101: English Grammar - Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
• Suite101: Word Play - Archived discussions and articles concerning words.
• Pseudo Dictionary - The dictionary for words that wouldn\\'t make it style guides into arts dictionaries.
• SDSU Writing Resource Crib - Offering tips and lively description on grammar, English, and writing.
• Guide to Grammar and Style - The information ranges from copy editing to elements style guides of style guides style to discussions. Practical information about the style guides writing craft.
• Dr. NAD's Prig Page. - Tests of usage, built interactively.
• The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words - Writing about and classifying words and language.
• Tribe: Words of Power - For people who love words, use them, feel arts them in writers resources their mouths as flavorful bursts of arts energy. This is the writers resources tribe for fun with arts words and receptive learning.
• The Word Detective - The online version of the newspaper column answering readers\\' questions about words and language. An extensive column and word archive. Written by Evan Morris.
• Plain English Campaign - An independent group fighting for plain English in writers resources public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
• Jargon Finder - The use and abuse of jargon. From The arts Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
• Modern Language Association - The Modern Language Association is the official guide style guides to non-fiction writing. Includes a guide to MLA style guides style.
• Word Rogues - Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site style guides also includes active community college English syllabii and style guides links to other writing, grammar sites.
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, arts thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
• WordWizard - Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, arts slang, quotations, writers resources insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers arts a round trip across writers resources the English language.
• Common Errors in English - Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, arts with corrections.
• Web Typography - The elements of typographic style applied to the arts web.
• Cliche Web - Thousands of cliches. Fully searchable and interactive. Formerly style guides Steve\'s Cliche List. Since 1995.
• The Word Nerds - A weekly podcast about words, language, and why writers resources we say the things we do.
• The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
• The Economist Style Guide - Guide based on the style book given style guides to all journalists at The Economist.
• Word News - Efforts have been made to provide some of arts the best thoughts, ancient and modern, that are arts particularly appealing for our time and to promote arts a greater appreciation for the English language.
• Frequently Asked Questions about English - Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
• The Philosophy of Punctuation - Paul Robinson\'s classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, arts dashes.

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