| | - General Resources:
- Alt.usage.english newsgroup
- World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) — An extensive site "devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution." Always interesting.
- 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.
- Rhetoric:
- Style Guides (more or less comprehensive):
- Strunk, The Elements of Style (1918 edition) (Bartleby)
- H. W. Fowler, The King's English (Bartleby)
- MHRA's Home Page (Cambridge)
- Papers: Expectations, Guidelines, Advice, and Grading (Jeannine DeLombard and Dan White, Univ. of Toronto) — Eminently reasonable and extremely helpful advice for writers of college-level English papers.
- 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.
- Jim's Word/Writer's Links — The Electric Eclectic — A huge collection of writing-related links, with brief annotations.
- Grammar:
- Pages on Specific Topics:
- Dictionaries and Lexicography:
- Hypertext Webster Interface (CMU) — A common interface allows you to search several public-domain dictionaries on-line.
- The Alternative Dictionaries — A collaborative international dictionary of slang and non-standard usage.
- 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."
- LOGOS Dictionary
- Technical Writing:
- 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.
- Literary Terms:
- Writers' Groups:
- Writing World #0151; A free, biweekly newsletter for writers, by the editor of the now defunct Inklings.
- General Essays on Style:
- Mechanics:
- Miscellaneous Observations:
- Publication:
- 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 and Plagiary:
- Copyediting:
- Writing Programs and Centers:
- Research:
- Inkspot: Resources for Writers
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Writers House
- The Reporters Network
- Writing Assessment Services
- The Writers' Conference
- Writer's Connection
- RhetNet: Net/Texts
- Writers Write: Internet Writing Journal
- Common Errors in English (Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Robin's Nest Writer's Help
- Warnings and Cautions for Writers — A useful set of pointers for newcomers to the business of writing.
- SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the Southa Asian Diaspora — Style tips, especially for journalists, on South Asian matters.
- 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.
- SUNY Geneseo Online Writing Guide (Paul Schacht and Celia Easton) — A useful collection of advice.
- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
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