• On-line Handbooks, Style Guides, Grammars & Rhetorics
• Student Handouts & Activity Sheets
• ESL Resources & Handouts
• Documenting Sources & Managing Citations
• Dictionaries, Thesauri & Other Reference Works
• OWLs: On-line Writing Labs
• Writing about Literature
  
  

• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Prof. Charles Darling, Capital Community-Technical College): An extremely useful grammar and writing on-line handbook. You'll find advice and guidance on just about any writing or grammar issue that you can imagine here, from guidance on writing research papers to strategies for attributing sources, thereby avoiding plagiarism, to self-paced quizzes to test your mastery of the conventions of written English.
• An Elementary Grammar (The English Institute): A brief grammar of the English Language.
• A Usage Database (U. of Wisconsin): A listing of useful editing & revision suggestions.
• Avoiding Errors when Writing (U of Wisconsin): A gopher database with suggestions on how to avoid predication, agreement and syntactic errors.
• The Editorial Eye: A Compendium of Publication Standards & Practices.
• The English Grammar Clinic (Lynbury English Centre): You have questions. They have answers.
• Grammar & Style Notes (John Lynch): A miscellany of grammar explanations, comments and suggestions.
• On-Line English Grammar (Anthony Hughes, Digital Education Network):A style and grammar guide with a great deal of information on the mechanics and conventions of the English Language.

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• Handouts Database (UW-Madison): A gopher database with materials covering peer editing, academic writing, epistolary writing, style guides and documentation guides.
• OWL Handouts by Document Title or Category (Purdue U): An exceptional source of advice, information and suggestions for improving your reading, writing , editing and learning skills from the Purdue On-line Writing Lab. Definitely a site you'll want to visit over and over again.

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• ESL Information on the Web (College Writing Programs, UCB): Resources links to ESL & TOEFL materials for students and teachers.

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• Citing Electronic Materials with the New MLA Guidelines (Michael Salda, U of Southern Mississippi): A bibliographic template and citation style guide consistent with MLA standards.

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• Hypertext Webster Interface (Carnegie Mellon U): Can't find your copy of Webster's Dictionary? Jump over to CMU's nifty look-up form for painless lexical querying.
• OneLook Dictionaries: Need to look something up? Try OneLook's compendium of dictionaries with over 150 dictionaries indexed and accessible through simple-to-use forms.
• Merriam-Webster WWWebster Dictionary: If you're suffering from that on-the-tip-of-tongue syndrome run a dictionary or thesaurus search from this site for an antidote.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 Version): An oldie, but a goodie. Looking for an old chestnut to nestle into your prose visit this site for "passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources."

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• On-line Writing Labs & Writing Centers (Purdue U): An alphabetical listing of OWL resources complied by the Purdue OWL.
• Writing Centers Online (National Writing Centers Assoc.): The most comprehensive alphabetical listing of Writing Centers, the Who's Who of OWLs.

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• Reading and Writing about Literature (Joi Chevalier & Robby Sulcer): A guided tour of the composition process from "close reading" to "thesis formulation."
• Writing Argumentative Essays (Bill Daly): A comprehensive guide to writing argumentative essays in the academic environment. You won't want to miss visiting this site!
• Quoting From a Literary Text (U of Wisconsin): Suggestions on how to use source materials effectively in your own writing from the UW-Madison Writing Lab.
• Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche, Emory U.)
• How to Critique Fiction (Victory Crayne): A checklist of issues and questions on many aspects of fiction writing.
• Literature & Writing Resources on the WWW (ITP, UC-Berkeley): A page of resources links.
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms (U of Kentucky): A comprehensive listing of rhetorical tropes, figures and terms. What makes this site indispensable reading is the generous sampling of examples.

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