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Focusing on Words
Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
http://www.wordfocus.com/

11 Rules of Writing
Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/

Acronym Finder
Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
http://www.AcronymFinder.com/

WordWizard
Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
http://www.wordwizard.com/

Bartleby.com: Strunk's Element of Style (1918)
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.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/


Cliche Finder
Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

Cliche
List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
http://www.angelfire.com/nd/danscorpio/word3.html

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
http://www.powa.org/

Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/

Wired Style
Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/

Verbivore
Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
http://pw1.netcom.com/%7erlederer/index.htm

American English
Canadian-American/British translation. Notes on American English, British English, and Canadian English, in spelling and word choice.
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html

Rhetorical Figures
From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

Word Fugitives
An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fugitives/index.htm

A Word With You
A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
http://www.wordwithyou.com/

Word Lab
A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
http://www.wordlab.com/

Cliche Site
Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.
http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp

The Tongue Untied
Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/

Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
http://www.mla.org




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