An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.

Focusing on Words

Digital handouts on grammar and English usage.Step-by-step directions to writing an explication . Good and bad examples provided. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.Writing about and classifying words and language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.

Wordelizer

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Cliche Finder

Findaphrase.com

Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style.An unabashed rant blog featuring English-language business signs with grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors . Lopez and derived from the science of `pataphysics as described by Alfred Jarry.

Plain Language Center

New Zealand site.

Tribe: Linguistics

Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.

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Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.The dictionary for words that wouldn`t make it into dictionaries.

Ralph`s Manual of Style

Writing about American slang.

Free newsletter and professional editing services.

Word Fugitives

Wordiness

A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.

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AskOxford .com

Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style .

LousyWriter.com

Sign up here.Articles about grammar information and hints.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

Popular, award-winning online writing guide.Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language.

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Frequently Asked Questions about English

Lingo Factory

This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.

The Tongue Untied

A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do.

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Word.For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage.List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use. Clich s are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.A look at word usage in popular culture . Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.

Pataphysics, Pataphors and Pataphorology

Articles and information on writing and evaluating plain and target-appropriate language for business publications and websites.

Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature

The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words

The Book of Cliches

Organized by occasion.Paul Robinson`s classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons , dashes.

Writer`s Dreamtools

Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization , navigation, and Web multimedia content.

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11 Rules of Writing

A process and system for helping people become better writers.Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.A list of lesser-known features in English writing.

Tribe: Words of Power

Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.

Word Lab

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A casual and contemporary look at how we humans communicate with each other both at home and abroad .The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing.

Pseudo Dictionary

For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy.A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names , titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.

Writing For Multimedia

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Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.How to write research papers, and do presentations.

A.Word.ADay

This is the website for the mailing list A.

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Guides for Better Science Writing

Macedon`s Taberna: The Craft of Writing

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The music and magic of words.

AllInfoAbout: English Language

CBC News: Words, Woe & Wonder

Help on punctuation and another page on grammar.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Illiterate Businesses

A guide for legal writing in plain English.

Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota

Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.

The Visual Thesaurus

Group for people who love discussing words and writing style. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.

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Lessons and information about everything related to English as it is used around the world . Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.

Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar

An extended metaphor that creates its own context.A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble.

Yale Style Manual

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A Research Guide for Students

Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

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Exploring English

Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions.

Plain Language Action Network

A guide to style, grammar, usage , and more by a guy named Ralph.

The Sports Cliche List

Verbivore

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Garbl`s Editorial Style Manual

You can submit questions about grammar and writing.A free online resource to improve your writing skills .From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors.Michael Butzgy`s style guide for multimedia .

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Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections .

Correct Punctuation

Crazy Colour Writing Skills Handbook

Grammar Slammer

This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary . Includes a free sign editing offer. The site includes a guide to MLA style.Archive of articles about English grammar and style.

Verbage

An interactive column by The Atlantic`s Barbara Wallraff.

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For use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases.

Good Grammar, Good Style

Language Wrangler

Plain English Campaign

An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication .

Suite 101: Communications Skills

Word Rogues

Tips on writing, English, and grammar.

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Day (AWAD) , which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day.

Dr. NAD`s Prig Page.

Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.A free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page, email it, or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft Word.

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Suite101: English Grammar and Style

The Word Centre

Online directory for grammar , spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here.Richard Lederer`s page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.

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NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer

This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing.Archived discussions and articles concerning words. Quick search of several word and language related sites.

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Cliche

Includes useful tips to help your spelling including homophones, words often misspelled, a dictionary search, an introduction to fingerspelling.Provides advice on abbreviations , capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.

Glossarist .com

Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.Promoting clearer communication between the public and government.

Rhetorical Figures

Slang City

SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors

The Well Bred Sentence

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A. Links and bibliography.Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. A very extensive column and word archive. Written by Evan Morris.

WordWizard

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Phrases Thesaurus

We compiled a list of the most common writing errors people tend to make.

That`s Right Words

The Philosophy of Punctuation

A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive learning. This site also contains active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites.

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Bartleby.com: Strunk`s Element of Style (1918)

Wilson`s handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.

Braintique: The Natural Way to Write

The site includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors .A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words.The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Help in discovering , organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.A.Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization , punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles , and business forms.Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.

The Economist Style Guide

This book offers an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation.

The Word Detective

The Word Nerds

If not, you can suggest your own. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.

World Wide Words

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Common Errors in English

Tests of usage, built interactively.A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.

Guide to Grammar and Style

Commentary on various technical aspects of writing: the nuts and bolts of narrative .

Modern Language Association

An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.The online version of the newspaper column answering readers` questions about words and language.

Top20Composition.com

Word Quests

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A science invented by P.

Suite101: Word Play

Group for discussions of words and language.Delve deeply into a word or subject.

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A brief guide to correct English punctuation. Grammar, spelling and writing style guide.Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words. From subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and argumentative essays.

How to Write an Explication

Learn how to write, how to use words, how to write sentences, and how to communicate effectively.

NLRB Style Manual

A generator of headlines and copy for journalists.Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder , contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers .

The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook

Portal for word lovers. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English.For the design of Web pages and Web sites.

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Clich s, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations.

E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing

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Linguistic Phenomena/Devices

Enter a word and the database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to that word. This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which you must stop doing. Errs on the side of "correctness ," not that of modern usage. Authoritative help with research, style, structure, major citation styles, mechanics, and revision.Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English .

Tribe: Word Freaks

A series of useful tools to enhance writers` and students` creativity, spark ideas and fight writer`s block.

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