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We hope you find this list of writing resources websites useful and interesting. They are guides to help you navigate the nebulous field of grammar and the imprecise language that is English.
There’s a new dictionary in town.
Test your vocabulary skills and track your progress; look up the meaning of those tough words and see examples of how to use them in a sentence; and read articles in the magazine about words on a new online dictionary. (You probably should bookmark this one.) Be careful though, it could become addictive!
http://www.vocabulary.com |
Classic Reference Sites
A sampling of new words from Webster’s 11th Edition
www.merriam-webster.com/info/new_words.htm
Welcome to The Chicago Manual of Style Online—the indispensable online reference for all who work with words
www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
Improving Your Writing
Our Tip of the Month Archives
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/egps/services/editorial/tips.shtm
These are 10 quick tips to improve your writing
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/quicktips.htm
“Helping you do things better”
www.quickanddirtytips.com/home/
Excellent writing resources and instructional material
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Resources in English as a second language
www.cln.org/subject_index.html
Fifty best blogs for grammar geeks
www.universityreviewsonline.com/2005/10/50-best-blogs-for-grammar-geeks.html
How to use a semicolon: A quick primer
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon
An excellent example of the need to proofread
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113006753_pf.html
All About Words
A fun site for those who love words, sponsored by Oxford Dictionaries http://www.savethewords.org/
H. L. Mencken’s 1919 book about changes Americans had made to the English Language
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_American_Language
Do you speak American? Discourse on the decline of grammar http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/correct/decline/
Please send us any interesting site you know of or run into that you would like to share.
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