Style Guides

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Style Guides

• The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words - Style guide for classifying words and language.
• 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.
• Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English - Kenneth G. Wilson's style guide includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
• 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.
• CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder - An in-depth style guide for the words we use from CBC News.
• 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. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.
• Cliche Web - Style guide for cliches. Fully searchable and interactive. Formerly Steve's Cliche List. Since 1995.
• Common Errors in English - Style guide for writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
• Consulting First, Inc.'s Dictionary - Style guide for translation and spelling.
• Correct Punctuation - Style guide for correct English punctuation.
• Dr. NAD's Prig Page. - Style guide for usage, built interactively.
• The Economist Style Guide - Style guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
• 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.
• Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar - Style guide for punctuation and another page on grammar.
• Ewriting - Style guide for electronic writing that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
• Exploring English - Style guide for parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.
• Findaphrase.com - Style guide for journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.
• Focusing on Words - Style guide for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
• Frequently Asked Questions about English - Style guide for usage and punctuation.
• Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Style guide for abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
• Glossarist.com - Style guide for terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
• Good Grammar, Good Style - Style guide for mechanics.
• 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.
• How to Write an Explication - Style guide for writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
• 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.
• Lingo Factory - Style guide for lingo.
• Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - Style guide for lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
• LousyWriter.com - Style guide for writing skills. Learn how to write, how to use words, how to write sentences, and how to communicate effectively.
• Modern Language Association - Style guide for MLA.
• NLRB Style Manual - Style guide for legal writing in plain English.
• NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer - Style guide for MLA-style bibliographies.
• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - Style guide for help with research, structure, citations, mechanics, and revision.
• Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - Style guide for rhetoric.
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Style guide for editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
• Pataphysics, Pataphors and Pataphorology - Style guide for extended metaphors. A science invented by P.A. Lopez and derived from the science of pataphysics as described by Alfred Jarry.
• The Philosophy of Punctuation - Style guide for periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
• 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 English Campaign - Style guide for plain English in public communication.
• 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.
• Ralph's Manual of Style - Style guide for grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph.
• Rhetorical Figures - Style guide for figures of speech.
• 11 Rules of Writing - Style guide for some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
• SecretariesUSA.com - Style guide for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms.
• Slang City - Style guide for American slang.
• Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - Style guide for grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.
• 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.
• The Sports Cliche List - Style guide for sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
• Suite 101: Workplace Communications - Style guide for writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.
• Suite101: English Grammar - Style guide for English grammar.
• Suite101: Word Play - Style guide for words.
• The Tongue Untied - Style guide for journalists.
• Top20Composition.com - Style guide for spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.
• Tribe: Linguistics - Style guide for words and language.
• Tribe: Word Freaks - Style guide for words and writing style.
• 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 Well Bred Sentence - Style guide for sentence construction and punctuation.
• The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - Style guide for teaching writing skills.
• 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.
• Word Files of Confusing English Words - A presentation of English words that are often confusing with definitions and context examples.
• 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.