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  • Common Errors in English - Common Errors in English is concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.
  • English Grammar FAQ - Questions and answers about English usage and grammar from a linguistics professor.
  • Guide to Grammar and Style - These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University . The entries here are of two types: specific articles on usage, and more general articles on style.
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing - Includes definitions of sentence parts, rules for comma usage and other punctuation marks, plurals and possessives, spelling, nouns and modifiers, words and phrases to avoid, capitalization, spelling and abbreviations, and a lot more.
  • The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - A very thorough site on how to improve your writing.
  • On-Line Writing Lab (OWL): Handouts for Students and Teachers - More than 100 documents on writing skills in categories such as: planning to write, English as a second language, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research and documenting sources, and business writing.
  • Wordsmyth: the Education Directory-Thesaurus - Wordsmyth is an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities. Both the Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus and the Wordsmyth web site reflect the philosophy that word meanings are not simply equations that one can get right or get wrong, but rather grow out of and depend on specific uses and contexts.
  • WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary - An online rhyming dictionary that matches beginning or end rhymes.
  • Writers Write - Information for professional and aspiring writers, including a daily news update section, job postings, and numerous resources relating to writing and publishing online.
Revised  July 21, 2009
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