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The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceAn Elementary Grammar
A project of the English Institute. Get the basics of English grammar, from word order to Modal Auxiliary Verbs.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceBartleby: English Usage, Style & Composition
"the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web..." This site includes a full text reference works on English usage, style and composition (formerly Project Bartleby). Special interest: American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage and The Elements of Style.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceCCC: Guide to Grammar and Writing
Based at Capital Community-Technical College and authored by Professor Charles Darling, this first rate resource is organized into: Sentence Level, Paragraph Level, Essay Level, Grammar Logs (grammar questions and answers), Anomalous Anonymies (real examples of grammar faux pas) and more.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceGarbl's Writing Resources On line
A well rounded collection of links to: On-Line Writing Experts, Grammar Guides, Style and Usage, Words, Reference Sources, and Word Play.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceA Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
This excellent resource was designed as an aid to writing technique, and is a joint project of Robert Harris, Professor of English at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, California and Ross Scaife, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky. Click on the pull down menus to select the desired topic and click the Retrieve button.

Guide to Grammar and Style
This award winning site is from Jack Lynch of the English department at Rutgers University. Access information on grammar by clicking on the letters of the alphabet. Lynch also lists books for further reading and includes some related web sites.

MCC: The New Guide to Writing Research Papers
From Monroe Community College. Designed for writers and researchers who are using either print or electronic resources and need to document those resources.

MCMurry: Links for Copy Editors
This site has links to online dictionaries, style manuals, grammar and style resources and more. 

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceOWL: Handouts
Part of the larger OWL (On-line Writing Lab), a project of the Purdue University Writing Lab, this portion of the site has links to online handouts created for the writing lab at Purdue. Special interest: General Writing Concerns, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, Professional Writing, Writing a Research Paper.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceThe UVic Hypertext Writer's Guide
This site based at the University of Victoria, Canada, is an excellent resource for the writing process. It includes information on: Essays, Paragraphs, Sentences, Words, Sources, Literary Terms (Alphabetically or by Category), Summaries, Logic, Grammar and Marking Symbols.

Web Sites Related to Editing
Developed by a professional copy editor with experience at Time magazine and The Washington Post, this site is a valuable tool for editing and style.

Writing and Editing Help
This is a resource document originally designed to help journalism students. It contains a wide array of links that all English students and writers will find useful, including information on banned books and alternative dictionaries.

The Writing Center: e-handouts
Based at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and authored by Craig Waddell. Get handouts on citation styles, styles of writing and types of writing.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceWriter's Workshop: Grammar Handbook
Based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This resource explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage. 

Yahoo! Grammar, Usage, and Style
Get links to grammar, citation, plagiarism sites and more.

Yahoo! Writing
Categories of writing sites that range from grammar and usage to contests.

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