Posted by: Catherine Morley
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Online Writing Guidelines

On the last Resourceful Friday I posted books to help those aiming to write better. This week covers sites on grammar, language usage, style guides, clichés, writing guides, punctuation, writing tips and suggestions. They are split into three loose groups - writing guides and tips, style guides, grammar and punctuation, and a catch all, msc.

Writing Guides and Tips

11 rules of writing

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Bartleby.com

Common Errors in English

Diagramming Sentences

OWL Handouts: Complete Index by Topic

Plain Language

Plain Language: Howto/Tools Guidelines

Plain Language: Howto/Tools Word suggestions

Plain Language: Howto/Tools Quick reference tips

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style

SUNY Geneseo Online Writing Guide

Tameri Guide for Writers

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

re: Writing

Sentence Sense: A Writer’s Guide, an online textbook in basic writing

U of Calgary: Basic Elements Of English

uw-madison writing center writer’s handbook

Write Away - Learn how to become a better writer

Writers Web

Writers’ Workshop Writing Tips

Writing Guides

Writing resources from Study Guides and Strategies

Writing Tips

Style Guides

APA Style Tips

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Colorado Uni Style Guide

NICS Web style guide

Times Online Style and Usage Guide

U of WA: Citation & Writing Guides

Grammar and Punctuation

Ain’t Grammar Fun: Words to the Wise

Clear English Grammar Resources

Doc Durden’s Guide to Good Grammar

Good Grammar, Good Style

Grammar Book: Grammar Rules, Punctuation and Capitalization, Rules for Writing Numbers

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Jack Hart: Prevent punctuation and grammar errors that hurt credibility

Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style

Online English Grammar

ProofReadNOW: Grammar rules

Punctuation Made Simple

Spark Notes: Online guide to grammar

The Armchair Grammarian

The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation

Writers’ Workshop: Grammar Handbook

Msc

Cliché site

Collective Nouns

Famous Quotes

Quote Reference

The Passivator

The Word Detective

Words: Woe and Wonder


If you have writing resources to suggest, go ahead and send them on over as I’d love to add them to my stash.

Until the next
Resourceful Friday,
cat

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