BetterEditor.org,
designed for editors and writers, is a straightforward,
structured resource that includes a sizeable collection
of categorized links to useful editing and writing sites. If you find BetterEditor.org
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AskOxford.com - Style guide for questions on
English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of
words, names or quotations.
A.Word.ADay - The music
and magic of words. This is the style guide for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its
definition to the subscribers every day.
Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918)
- Style guide 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.
The Book of Cliches - A
style guide of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for
times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
Braintique: The Natural Way to Write
- Style guide for helping people become better writers.
The site includes exercises, examples, and information about
descriptive writing and metaphors.
Cliche - Style guide
for English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on
their use.
Cliche Finder - Style guide for special tool
word-searches 3,300 cliches.
Cliche Site - Style
guide for sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations.
Clichιs are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can
use the search function.
Common Errors in English - Style guide
for writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words,
with corrections.
E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing
- Style guide for word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of
Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy
phrases.
Grammar Slammer - Style
guide for capitalization,
abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and
a grammar glossary.
Guide to Grammar and Style
- Style guide for copy editing to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Style guide for grammar and English usage. From
subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises in
parallel structures and argumentative essays. You can submit
questions about grammar and writing.
Guides for Better Science Writing
- Style guide for for scientific research,
writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine,
chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
Illiterate Businesses - Style guide
for English-language business signs with
grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors. Includes a free
sign editing offer.
Language Wrangler - Style guide for word usage, writing ideas and style.
Phrases Thesaurus - Style guide for headlines and copy for journalists. Enter a word and the
database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to
that word.
Plain English at Work -
Style guide for using plain English and changing the corporate
style. Produced for Australia's Department of Education,
Training and Youth Affairs and the Australian National Training
Authority.
Plain
Language Action Network - Style guide
for clearer communication between the public and government. This
site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
Plain Language Center -
Style guide for evaluating plain and
target-appropriate language for business publications and
websites.
Pseudo Dictionary -
Style guide for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.
SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors
- Style guide for writing errors people
tend to make. This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing.
This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which
you must stop doing.
Suite 101: Workplace Communications
- Style guide for writing and speaking skills, with
emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating
with international and multicultural audiences.
Tribe:
Words of Power - Style guide for people who love
words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts
of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive
learning.
Urban Dictionary - Style guide for streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its
readers.
The Visual Thesaurus -
Style guide for sense relationships within the English
language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning,
creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Web
Typography - Style guide for typographic style applied to the web.
The
Word Centre - Style guide for training businesses to use plain English. Free
newsletter and professional editing services.
The
Word Detective - Style guide for answering readers' questions about words
and language. A very extensive column and word archive. Written
by Evan Morris.
Yale
Style Manual - For the design of Web
pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page
layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web
multimedia content.
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