World Wide Words
(Michael Quinion) — An extensive site "devoted to the English
language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution." Always
interesting.
Schiel & Denver
Book Publishing Services Provider for UK and EU Markets
English Usage, Style,
& Composition — A collection of reference works at
Bartleby.com, including American Heritage, Strunk &
White, Fowler's King's English, and other indispensable
public-domain works. Worth a bookmark.
Grammar
Resources on the Web — the University of Chicago Writing
Program provides annotated links to useful Web sites on grammar and
style. Eminently sensible.
EnglishForums.com
-- Discussion groups on English grammar, usage, and style.
Guardian Style
Guide -- A thorough guide to the house style of The
Guardian. American users should note that it's a British
publication; all users should note that it settles their own house
style, and doesn't pretend to rule on the language as a whole.
Writing Better:
A Handbook for Amherst Students (Susan Snively, Amherst
College) — A practical collection of writing advice, both specific
and general. Plenty of examples. [Added 10 Sept.
1999]
Learn
to Write (Brian Dana Akers) — Brief, opinionated reviews of
some major guides to writing.
Writing
Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students (Michael Alley,
Virginia Tech; Leslie Crowley, Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign; and Christene Moore, Univ. of Texas at Austin) —
Useful and practical advice for writers in technical fields.
Guide to
Grammar and Writing (Capital Community Technical College) — A
good collection of advice, including information on diagramming
sentences, easily confused words, rules for spelling, punctuation,
and so on.
WordNet: A
Lexical Database for English (Princeton) — "An on-line lexical
reference system whose design is inspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each
representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations
link the synonym sets."
Essays on the Craft of
Dramatic Writing (Bill Johnson) — A collection of short
original pieces on writing, especially screenplays. Focuses on
plot, characters, that sort of thing.
Technical Writing
(Ronald B. Standler) — A well written collection of useful tips for
technical writers. Bear in mind, though, that some guidelines apply
only to technical writing.
On
Close Spacing between Words and Sentences (Mark Wainwright,
Cambridge) — Informed commentary on spacing after punctuation.
Note, though, it refers only to typeset material;
Wainwright's advice doesn't necessarily apply to typescripts.
RhetNet: A
Dialogic Publishing (Ad)venture (Missouri) — "RhetNet is a
concerted effort to see what publishing on the net might be in its
'natural' form. Without leaving our print heritage behind entirely,
we want to adapt to the net rather than only adapting net
publishing to print-based convention."
Copyright Law
(Ronald B. Standler) — A helpful, informal overview of American
copyright law.
Plagiarism in Colleges
in USA (Ronald B. Standler) — A very useful essay on
plagiarism, including the ethical and legal questions, with plenty
of guidelines for students.
WriteBusiness.com —
Mostly a commercial site, but includes a good collection of free
resources, including tips on copyright, MS preparation, and the
writing business.
The
Vocabula Review — An electronic journal on usage. Tends to be
conservative, but not mindlessly so; still, perhaps too splenetic
for many. A regular feature, "Grumbling about Grammar," suggests
the tone a little too well.
The Nuts and Bolts
of College Writing (Michael Harvey) -- A helpful guide to
writing papers, with advice on thesis construction, use of
evidence, style, and mechanics.
CompPile (Rich
Haswell) -- "An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary
composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing." A large and
impressive bibliography of sources.
Plagiarism
(Sharon Stoerger) -- A huge collection of information on
plagiarism, copyrights, intellectual freedom, term paper mills, and
so on. Nearly comprehensive.
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