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Style and Grammar resources

Questions about grammar or style? Check these resources

A list of online style and grammar resources. Please let me know if you find any broken links.
Guide to Grammar and Style
This online guide is the work of Jack Lynch, an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers. Of the guide, Lynch says "These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes. Nothing here is carved in stone, and many comments are matters of personal preference - feel free to psychoanalyze me by examining my particular hangups and bĂȘtes noires."
The Economist Style Guide
A style guide for writers at The Economist.
The Elements of Style, First Edition
This is the original, 1918, edition William Strunk's oft-cited The Elements of Style. It's old, but there's still good advice here.

Writing and Language Blogs

Blogs focussing on writing and language

Writing Tools
A blog associated with Roy Peter Clark's book Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer.

Reference Shelf

Online dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, etc.

The Free Dictionary
English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
Online Etymology Dictionary
"A map of the wheel-ruts of modern English."
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
Describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

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  • cooltattoos Oct 22, 2006 @ 9:35 am | delete
    thanks, this is a good resource on writing.

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