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100 Words That All High School Graduates And Their Parents Should Know - "The quality of a person's vocabulary has a direct effect on his or her success in college and in the workplace. In response to parents' misgivings over the quality of their children's education, the editors of The American Heritage College Dictionary have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend each high school graduate should know."
150 Business Jargon Fixes - "This guide is meant to serve as a quick fix for business writers looking for powerful alternatives to the tired phrases that drain all the life out of their content."
A Rulebook for Arguments, by Anthony Weston - "This book begins by discussing fairly simple arguments and moves to argumentative essay at the end."
American Heritage Book of English Usage - A powerful, practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English usage that will help you make intelligent decisions when communicating in speech or writing. Site presents sound guidelines and specific controversies in grammar, style, and word choice.
Antagonyms - words that have opposite meanings (e.g., "bad" can mean bad or good depending on usage).
APA: How to Cite Online Sources - "How to Cite Online Sources in APA"
AskOxford.com - Free English language reference site from Oxford University Press. The site has a range of resources including dictionaries, a thesaurus, word games and writing guides as well as the opportunity to put any language related question not answered by the site to OUP's resident language experts.
Basic Guide to Essay Writing - a step-by-step guide to writing a basic essay. Includes links to other on-line essay resources.
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, The
Character Counter - A tool to count Words, whitespace, paragraphs: lines, letters, and numbers in your text.
Citation Styles
Cliche Finder - Site has a list of 3,300 cliches, and can be searched by keyword.
Colorado State University Online Writing Lab
Common Errors in English - Simply and entertainingly explains a number of common spelling and usage errors in English.
Confusing Words - Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.
Daily Grammar - improve your writing with free daily e-mail grammar lessons.
Darling's Guide to Grammar - prepared by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling for his English courses at Capital Community-Technical College.
Deep English - "Our mission is to get you passionate about using English to communicate and understand real, meaningful ideas."
Dictionary of Affixes - "This dictionary contains more than 1,250 entries, illustrated by some 10,000 examples, all defined and explained."
English Literature Notes - It is our endeavour to accomplish the difficult yet satisfying task of creating English Literature notes at no cost for the students of higher classes.
editing market - A website platform which lets scholars, PhD and Master's candidate compare prices of various editing services/editors and order online.
Elements of Style, The - William Strunk, Jr.
English as a Second Language
- Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students
- english-at-home.com - Learn English grammar, vocabulary, speaking skills and more. For English as a Second Language students.
- Internet TESL Journal - The Internet TESL Journal - Teachers of English as a Second Language
- Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students - The Internet TESL Journal; a very large number of quizzes.
- English Vocabulary Test - In this test you get 100 letter sequences, some of which are existing English words (American spelling) and some of which are made-up nonwords. Indicate for each letter sequence whether it is a word you know or not by pressing the F or J key.
English Server, The - "The EServer is a digital humanities venture, founded in 1990 and based in the College of LAS at Iowa State U, where writers, editors and scholars publish over 35,000 works, free."
English Words - "An online resource to improve your writing"
Farlex Grammar Book, The - "Welcome to the online home of The Farlex Grammar Book, your complete guide to the English language!"
Focusing on Words - This advanced English-language site is here as a guide by your side so you can experience the wonder of words and the English language.
Foreign Words and Phrases
Free English Grammar and Tests
Gender-free Pronoun FAQs - Discusses politically correct alternatives to gendered pronouns.
Grammar and Style Notes - by Jack Lynch.
Grammar Bytes - explanations, handouts for students and teachers, and interactive exercises.
GrammarCheck - "Now you can grammar and spell check any text or document online. Simply copy and paste your text onto our website to proofread, review, and correct it."
Grammar Guides: Australian Help - "Australian Help is an independent learning centre pleased to partner with the Australian Government Department of Education and Training to help Australian students with their homework assignments."
Grammar and Language Courses - This site by yourDictionary.com provides links to online grammars and language courses along with links to lesson plans and other resources for learning the languages.
Grammar Slammer Online - online English grammar help. Includes letter writing, confusing words, and easy search engine.
Grammarly - A tool for checking grammar, and suggesting improvements as you type.
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing.
Heteronyms - words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently (e.g., wind or lead).
How to Write Well - "How to Write Well - Solving your writing problems since 1998"
HyperGrammar - Structured and detailed course on literary stylistics produced by the University of Ottawa.
HyperTextBook - Modern English Grammar.
Indispensable Writing Resources - You'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites.
Jargon Buster - If you're confused by conjugation and puzzled by the postpositive then this service by Oxford Dictionaries called 'jargon buster' should help you cut through the technical terms and grab hold of grammar, literary terms, and other such bamboozlement.
King's English - HW Fowler's classic reference guide to vocabulary, syntax, punctuation, grammar, and style.
Latin Phrases, Quotes, Mottos, and Maxims
Learnarize - "Learning another language can be a rewarding, enriching venture for anyone, and often entails such benefits as an increased understanding and appreciation of the relevant culture, a sense of satisfaction, and in some cases benefits to one’s career goals and status."
MLA Handbook - "The only authoritative Web site devoted to MLA style, the new MLA Style Center is the official, free online companion to the new 8th edition of the 'MLA Handbook', forthcoming April 2016."
Modern English Grammar - "Hypertextbook" covering English clauses, phrases, word structure, grammatical style, punctuation and even the Ebonics debate.
OWL: Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - site offers a guide to writing essays and term papers. Modules include choosing a topic, organizing your writing, editing your writing, documenting your research, and writing various kinds of papers: informal, thesis, exploratory, argumentative.
Phrase Finder - Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you'll probably find something here to interest you.
Plagiarismcheck.org - A plagiarism checking tool
Punctuation - Brief discussion of the concept of punctuation, and a complete guide to the functions of punctuation marks.
Robert's Rules of Order
Slot, The: A Spot for Copy Editors- part style manual, part pet-peeve collection, The Slot is one copy editor's look at how to use, and how not to use, the English language.
Trinity College Writing Center - "The writing center provides help with all kinds of writing, from the first critiques assigned in first-year seminars to senior theses and admissions essays for graduate and professional schools."
Word Counter (1) - "Check word count, keyword count, and word frequency with our free online counter. You'll get a complete breakdown of all keywords that you've used in your text, so you can improve your copy to avoid SEO issues. You can also embed it on your blog or website for free."
Word Counter (2) - "Word Counter can do more than just count words and characters. It can improve word choice and writing style, and, optionally, help you to detect grammar mistakes and plagiarism."
Word Detective, The - the online version of Evan Morris's syndicated column.
Word Wizard
The World's Famous Orations, William Jennings Bryan, Editor-in-Chief - Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through these 281 masterpieces by 213 rhetoricians. Selected under the supervision of the greatest orator of his time, these brief persuasive addresses form both a window into history's turning points as well as a timeless collection for any reference shelf.
Write a Writing - "Provides writing help for technical, academic, creative or corporate level writing."
Writing Explained: Grammar Made Easy - "A free online writing class that provides writing examples, sentences, and style advice according to AP and Chicago Styles."
Writing For Results - "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Writing for Results does just that for briefing notes and briefing books."

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