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Online Resources for Writers
Project Bartleby
Grammars, Dictionaries, and Other
Guides
Style and Usage
English as a Second Language
Writing Links
Project
Bartleby:
Columbia University's Project
Bartleby publishes classic works whose
copyrights have expired:
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Grammars, Dictionaries, and
Other Guides:
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Professor Darling publishes an excellent online Guide
to Grammar and Writing, complete
with quizzes.
He provides useful mini-courses on grammar
and mechanics. Miss Grammar's cousin — the
elderly, but vigorous, "Grammar" — resides
there too.
Rutgers professor, Jack Lynch, publishes a
handy
Grammar and Style Notes, based on his
classes.
The List
of
Dictionaries provides links to many online
dictionaries and word books,
including dual-language works (English-German, for
example) and non-English language books.
ROGET'S
Thesaurus Search Form,
an experimental program maintained by Mark Olsen
at the University of Chicago, lets you
"search the headwords or full text of Roget's
Thesaurus."
- Jeremy Smith's
British-American Dictionary documents
the truth of the adage that England and America are
two nations separated by a common language.
For another amusing illustration of this truth, see United
Kingdom English for the American Novice,
in which one learns that "American dinner" means
potluck.
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Style and Usage:
In case you missed this classic in school, here is George Orwell's 1946 essay on writing clearly: Politics and the English Language.
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Jonathan Price of the Communication Circle offers Tips to
tighten up your Web prose—and most other writing
too.
- The
Editorial Eye Index provides
a sampling of articles originally printed in the "Eye's" monthly
newsletter.
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English as a Second Language:
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Writing Links:
- Purdue University's Writing
Resources and Writing Labs on the Net provides
extensive information and numerous links.
- http://www.plainlanguage.gov:
"In 1995 a group of federal employees began
meeting to try to spread the use of plain language.
This group remains at the center of the movement
in the United States. Now called PLAIN—the
Plain Language Action and Information Network—we
created this website to help others learn about and
use plain language."
- http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/:
This "site provides free plain-language articles,
writing tutorials, Web links, news, networking opportunities,
and professional support."
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