Style Manuals
- Diana Hacker's compleat
reference guide to MLA, APA and Chicago style citations.
- William Strunk's original version of the
Elements of Style
(later made famous by E. B. White) is available courtesy of the Bartleby
project.
- Garbl's
Style and Usage Links offers links to online style guides and manuals
managed by various organizations, businesses, publications and universities.
- Garbl's
Editorial Style Manual is a comprehensive style guide based on the
Associated Press Stylebook and other excellent reference books.
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Grammar Handbooks
- WebGrammar
is a site devoted to grammar.
- Plagued by a grammar question for which
you can't find an answer? Try one of the grammar hotlines listed in
the Grammar
Hotline Directory. Services are listed by state and include phone
and e-mail information.
- The
Apostrophe Protection Society is a good-natured site that promotes
proper use of the apostrophe.
- Garbl's
Grammar Grappler will answer your questions about grammar.
- iScribe
has a site devoted to grammar basics and definitions of grammatical
terms.
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Dictionaries
- Dictionary.com
allows you to search multiple dictionaries and references at the same
time.
- Dictionary.net
returns word, and phrase definitions from a variety of English dictionary
resources
- iTools
has links to a number of dictionaries, thesauruses, and other language
tools, including online translators.
- Merriam
Webster Dictionary
- LookWAYup
Dictionary/Thesaurus and Translation is a large online English dictionary
that tolerates small spelling errors (U.S. or international spelling),
shows definitions for multiple senses of the word, and for each sense
shows synonyms, related terms, and usage examples. It will also translate
words to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, or German or vice-versa.
- Online
Dictionaries
- A list of biograpical info at Biographical
Dictionary
- Roget's
Thesaurus
- The
Visual Thesaurus offers a visual way of exploring the relationships
between words.
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Editing
Resources
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
- Glossary
Agent is a growing, focused compilation of links to online monolingual,
bilingual, and multilingual glossaries in insurance and related fields
such as law and finance. Current topics include, among others, environmental
protection, finance, healthcare, information technology, insurance,
law, medicine, transportation, and weather. The site is useful to anyone
who needs to know the meaning of technical terms in a wide variety of
disciplines.
- Robert Harris has a searchable rhetorical
devices handbook and a glossary
of literary terms.
- Voice of
the Shuttle is a massive humanities database portal.
- For fun, test your knowledge of Editorial
Esoterica, brought to you by Andrea Sutcliffe and Editorial
Eye.
- Paul Brian's Common
Errors in English Site has an extraordinarily comprehensive list
of errors in English usage and advice for how to avoid them.
- The
Writer's Block is full of links to resources for writing, grammar,
style guides, research, and reference.
- Word
Surfing offers vocabulary learning strategies for students of all
age
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