1. 11 Rules of Writing
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| Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. |
| http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/ |
2. A Research Guide for Students
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| How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. |
| http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html |
3. A Word With You
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| A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases. |
| http://www.wordwithyou.com/ |
4. A.Word.ADay
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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. |
| http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html |
5. Acronym Finder
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| Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms. |
| http://www.AcronymFinder.com/ |
6. Adding Value to your Links
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| A bulleted guide to using links effectively in hypertext writing. |
| http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/value.html |
7. American English
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| Canadian-American/British translation. Notes on American English, British English, and Canadian English, in spelling and word choice. |
| http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html |
8. AmeriSpeak
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| "Expressions of our American ancestors." The colorful slang of Americans of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. |
| http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm |
9. APA Style
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| Official American Psychological Association site includes frequently asked questions, guidelines for electronic media citations and spelling and ordering information. |
| http://www.apastyle.org/ |
10. AskOxford.com
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| For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations. |
| http://www.askoxford.com/ |
11. Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918)
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| For use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. |
| http://www.bartleby.com/141/ |
14. Cliche
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| List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. |
| http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html |
15. Cliche Finder
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| Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches. |
| http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ |
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