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57 sites in Style Guides |
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A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
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The use and abuse of jargon. From The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
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The British newspaper's guide to word usage, grammar and punctuation, edited by David Marsh and Nikki Marshall. Includes 1928 edition in pdf format.
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Thousands of cliches. Fully searchable and interactive. Formerly Steve's Cliche List. Since 1995.
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A presentation of English words that are often confusing with definitions and context examples.
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The word lover's web site by Paul McFedries.
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A veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its readers.
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The elements of typographic style applied to the web.
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An unabashed rant weblog featuring English-language business signs with grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. Includes a free sign editing offer.
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A free online resource to improve your writing skills. Learn how to write, how to use words, how to write sentences, and how to communicate effectively.
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Writing about American slang.
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Writing about and classifying words and language.
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Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
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A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do.
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Group for discussions of words and language.
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Group for people who love discussing words and writing style.
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A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words.
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A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph.
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A brief guide to correct English punctuation.
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Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
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Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.
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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.
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Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.
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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.
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Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
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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.
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Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
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Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
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Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
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A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
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An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
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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.
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Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
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An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.
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Archived discussions and articles concerning words.
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Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
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Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
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Tests of usage, built interactively.
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An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
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Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
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A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases.
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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.
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Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
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A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
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Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
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The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. Includes a guide to MLA style.
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Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.
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A message board where you can request and brainstorm words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
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The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
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Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
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Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
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Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
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Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
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Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
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Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
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"A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices including an Introduction and a Self Test."
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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.
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