Writing

Purdue Online Writing Lab
The Purdue OWL provides students from Purdue a chance to work with a writing tutor, and it allows anyone on the Internet a chance to find answers to their writing questions either from their library of writing resources or by sending a question to an OWL tutor.
 
Online Writery
This is another OWL specifically designed for undergraduate writing students. The site has on-line forums where writers can discuss their projects, and a submission form where writers can send in their works in progress for feedback from a member of the OWL staff.
 
Grammar Hotline Directory (1998)
While the OWLs will not answer grammar and proofreading questions, there are many services available that will. Many of these services are listed on the Grammar Hotline page, along with their mail and e-mail addresses, and FAX numbers.
 
Roget's Thesaurus
This version of Roget's Thesaurus on the Web was created by the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago. It searches for synonyms of words that users enter and shows related words grouped in concept categories.
 
Research-it!
This site brings a wide variety of reference tools together on one page. The site provides an easy and quick way to get connected to facts and definitions.
 
OneLook Dictionaries
The OneLook Dictionaries site is actually a promotional business site, but a useful search tool none the less. The site can search several dictionaries and glossaries with a single query, and present all of the results on the same page.
 
Sun Guide to Web Style
This guide is a concise introduction to Web design principles. Altough the guide is a bit dated now, most of the advice it contains is still useful.
 
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
The Yale Guide is a much more detailed introduction to Web design issues. It may be too advanced for beginners, but it is required reading for anyone serious about designing Web pages and using Web graphics effectively.
 
The Elements of Style
This site is Project Bartleby's on-line edition of William Strunk's, Elements of Style. This guide for writers promotes what its author calls "plain English style," still favored in many college English classes.
 


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