Resources

We have collected a number of links to web resources that may help answer some of your writing questions and concerns.  Additionally, some sites are just fun to visit if you want to learn more about writing.  These sites are external to this web page.

General Writing Help

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is an "interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW."

The Teaching Resources Center Writing Project.  Andre Jones has put together a table of links to help writers through the writing process.

Writer's Resource Center "was created in 1993 to serve the needs of writers on the Internet." First created by John Hewitt, it later developed into a site offering advice from many writers. Contributors submit articles dealing with everything from professional writing concerns to simple ways to improve one's prose.

Style

Improving Your Writing Style from the university of North Carolina's writing center.

The King's English (1907 ed.)  Fowler's guide to style and usage.

Grammar

Common Errors in English a considerable list of commonly confounding errors in English.

Guide to Grammar and Style Lynch's style and grammar guide at Rutger University.

Guide to Grammar and Writing. Basic introduction to writing and grammar maintained by Charles Darling of Capital Community College. 

WebGrammar.com. A comprehensive collection of links and information about grammar and style. 

English as a Second Language

English as a Second Language Home Page currently maintained by Rong-Chong Li, offers many resources for multilingual speakers.  It includes audio and video lessons, as well as information about various cultures.

Citation Styles

American Psychological Association (APA) Official  /  Resource

Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Official  /  Resource

Columbia Guide to Online Style (COS) Official

Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Official  /  Resource (1) (2)

Modern Language Association (MLA) Official  /  Resource

Other Online Writing Labs (OWLs)

Sweet Briar's Academic Resource Center [links to Writing Centers] 

National Writing Centers Association Online Writing Centers [links to Writing Centers]

Community College of Denver

Online Writery at the University of Missouri-Columbia

Purdue University

Washington State

Dictionaries/Reference Works

The American Heritage Reference Collection offers the ability to search their dictionary, thesaurus, and usage manual.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 ed.)

Dictionary.com returns search results of definitions and etymologies in common dictionaries and offers thesaurus functions.

OED online at Pfau Library

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