ONLINE RESOURCES FOR GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, USAGE, AND STYLE
Dictionary.com
a dictionary + links to resources about punctuation, grammar, and writing
style
Consult three guides in:
Miles, Thomas H. Critical Thinking and Writing for
Science and Technology. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
----- Grammar, Punctuation, and Other Conventions
----- Suggestions for Format and Readability
----- Revision, Readability, and Style
Review the Basics, with Professors Brady and Sweet
Documentation Style -- For Parenthetical Citations and the Works
Cited Page
MLA and APA Styles for
Documentation
Beyond MLA --
Documenting Electronic Sources
The APA/MLA Electronic Reference
Guide for Bibliographical Citations -- from the American Psychological
Association and the Modern Language Association, guides for citing electronic
sources
General Guides
Professor Brady's Homepage of Online Writing Help -- Practical materials for improving your writing, with valuable links to other sites.
Professor Brady's Review of the Basics of Grammar, Punctuation, and Style
Online Resources for Writers -- from Multimedia WebWatch, at the Library Journal
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. (1918) -- The best guide to classic American prose style. E. B. White, the famous American essayist and author of Charlotte's Web, used 'the little book' when he took Professor Strunk's course at Cornell in 1919. Most famous, perhaps, for its admonitions to "omit needless words" and "keep related words together."
The Allan K. Smith Writing Center at Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
The Virginia Tech Online Writing Lab
Dakota State University Online Writing Lab -- A total site for matters of writing. With links to all the other major online writing labs (OWLs), including those at
· Purdue
· The University of Missouri, and
· The University of Texas at Austin
Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
A Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch
The University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide -- Includes material on the writing process and the study of literature. Originally prepared for undergraduates. See its list of other Web sites about writing.
An Elementary Grammar, from The English Institute (France) -- Designed for students studying English as a second language.