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Style guides generally give guidance on language usage. Some style guides consider or focus on elements of graphic design, such as typography and white space. Website style guides often focus on visual or technical aspects.
A publishing company's or periodical's house style is the collection of conventions set out in its internal style guide, or manual of style.
"Style" in this context therefore does not refer to the writer's voice.
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Wonder - An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.
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11 Rules of Writing - Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
Meta Description: [ The 11 Rules of Writing site is a concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills. ]
A Research Guide for Students - How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.
Meta Description: [ How to write Bibliography or Works Cited using MLA style. Numerous examples, including Internet citations. Virtual Library consists of some of the most useful and best education websites arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification. ]
A.Word.ADay - The music and magic of words. This is the website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day.
Meta Description: [ The magic of words. ]
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AllInfoAbout: English Language - Lessons and information about everything related to English as it is used around the world.
Meta Description: [ Learn the beautiful English language on line with free beginning English lessons on vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and lots of sound files. ]
AskOxford.com - For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
Meta Description: [ Search the Compact Oxford English Dictionary online; get answers to questions on English, language, grammar, spelling, quotations, and usage; find out about OUP dictionaries; improve your writing skills; try our word games, crosswords, and puzzles; win books in our prize draw; learn French, Germa... ]
b Typography - The elements of typographic style applied to the web.
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.
Meta Description: [ Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style ]
Bartleby.com: The Columbia Guide to Standard American English - Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
Meta Description: [ The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 ]
Braintique: The Natural Way to Write - A process and system for helping people become better writers. The site includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.
Meta Description: [ The Natural Way to Write is a process and system for helping people become better writers ]
Cliche Finder - Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
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.
Meta Description: [ ClicheSite.com - The largest collection of clichés or cliches, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations. ]
Common Errors in English - Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
Correct Punctuation - A brief guide to correct English punctuation.
Meta Description: [ A brief guide to correct English punctuation. ]
Crazy Colour Writing Skills Handbook - Includes useful tips to help your spelling including homophones, words often misspelled, a dictionary search, an introduction to fingerspelling. Grammar, spelling and writing style guide.
Meta Description: [ An interesting article to help you at the office. ]
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Deadwood Phrases - Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z.
E-dition: Dictionary of Concise Writing - A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases.
Meta Description: [ Site map for E-dition: an online catalog for the e-books titles we published ]
Einfoweb: Punctuation and Grammar - Help on punctuation and another page on grammar.
Meta Description: [ Help on punctuation with rules, exercises, worksheets, lesson plans on apostrophe, colon, comma, dash, ellipse, exclamation point, hyphen, parentheses, period, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, and underlining for better writing ]
Ewriting - Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
Meta Description: [ Eediting and Ewriting - Helps writers write better phrases. Helps reader memory and understanding. Readers report they can read this style 2 or 3 times faster. Easy to read vertical writing style. Write better immediately. New method improves writing quickly. Help your readers. ]
Exploring English - An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.
Findaphrase.com - Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.
Meta Description: [ Free phrase database for journalists and copywriters - search for common phrases ]
Focusing on Words - Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
Meta Description: [ English vocabulary from Latin and Greek sources with prefixes, roots, and suffixes dictionary searches; to assist online learners of all ages ]
Frequently Asked Questions about English - Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
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Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
Meta Description: [ This free style guide can help answer your writing questions about abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, punctuation, spelling and word usage ]
Glossarist.com - A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
Meta Description: [ Searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects. ]
Good Grammar, Good Style - Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
Grammar Slammer - This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.
Meta Description: [ Online demo of Grammar Slammer--Answers for all your English Grammar questions online ]
Guide to Grammar and Style - The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Digital handouts on grammar and English usage. From subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and argumentative essays. You can submit questions about grammar and writing.
Meta Description: [ The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative ... ]
Guides for Better Science Writing - Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
Just Language - A casual and contemporary look at how we humans communicate with each other both at home and abroad.
Language Wrangler - Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style.
Lingo Factory - A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words.
Meta Description: [ This is a tribe meant as a cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are ]
Linguistic Phenomena/Devices - A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
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Macedon's Taberna: The Craft of Writing - Commentary on various technical aspects of writing: the nuts and bolts of narrative.
Modern Language Association - The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
Meta Description: [ Founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars, the Modern Language Association (MLA) promotes the study and teaching of language and literature. ]
NLRB Style Manual - A guide for legal writing in plain English.
Meta Description: [ A Guide for Legal Writing in Plain English ]
NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer - 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.
Meta Description: [ NoodleBib: The MLA and APA Bibliography Composer! ]
Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
Meta Description: [ A multidisciplinary department devoted to scientific and technical communication and the humanities. ]
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
Phrases Thesaurus - A generator of headlines and copy for journalists. Enter a word and the database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to that word.
Meta Description: [ The Phrase Thesaurus, a writer's resource for generating ideas ]
Plain English Campaign - An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
Meta Description: [ Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese. We fund ourselves through offering plain English editing, plain English training and the Crystal Mark Scheme. ]
Plain Language Action Network - Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
Meta Description: [ Resources ]
Pseudo Dictionary - The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.
Ralph's Manual of Style - A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph.
Meta Description: [ Ralph's -- The definitive guide to style, usage, and turnips. ]
Rhetorical Figures - From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
SecretariesUSA.com - Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms.
Slang City - Writing about American slang.
Meta Description: [ Check out this cool online guide to American slang, including explanations of popular songs and movies, bad words, body parts and more. Sign up for our free newsletter! ]
Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature - Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.
SoYouWanna Avoid Common Writing Errors - We compiled a list of the most common writing errors people tend to make. This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing. This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which you must stop doing.
Suite 101: Communications Skills - Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.
Meta Description: [ ,Good communication skills are vital for people in almost every occupation. This topic will cover both writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences, giving interesting presentations and overcoming l... ]
Suite101: English Grammar and Style - Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
Meta Description: [ ,(To assist those who are struggling with English grammar / writing style.) Although some folks stress over sentence structure and experience anxiety over apostrophes, I wear the rules of grammar like a second skin and am happy to help others! - dewey decimal 009428 ]
That's Right Words - Articles about grammar information and hints. New Zealand site. Errs on the side of correctness, not that of modern usage.
The Archive of Endangered, Special, or Fun Words - Writing about and classifying words and language.
The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
Meta Description: [ Phrases to say in times of trouble. Cliches for many situations. ]
The Economist Style Guide - Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - Popular, award-winning online writing guide. Authoritative help with research, style, structure, major citation styles, mechanics, and revision.
Meta Description: [ An easy-to-use, award-winning guide for writing better college essays, including help with style, structure, evidence (including citation styles and citing the Internet), and mechanics. ]
The Philosophy of Punctuation - Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
The Sports Cliche List - A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
Meta Description: [ A searchable collection of sports cliches, jargon, and lingo ]
The Tongue Untied - Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
Meta Description: [ Grammar for Journalists ]
The Visual Thesaurus - An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Meta Description: [ The Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations. The Visual Thesaurus was built using Thinkmap, a data-animation technology. ]
The Well Bred Sentence - This book offers an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation.
Meta Description: [ This book offers an intensive study of sentence construction and punctuation. ]
The Wonderful Writing Skills Unhandbook - An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
The Word Centre - Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
Meta Description: [ Plain English news, plain English services and plain English products from the Word Centre. Document editing and training in effective writing. ]
The Word Nerds - A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do.
Meta Description: [ A weekly podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do. ]
Top20Composition.com - Online directory for grammar, spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.
Meta Description: [ Best sites for Compositiion ]
Tribe: Linguistics - Group for discussions of words and language.
Meta Description: [ Anything and everything related to linguistics. Phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, animal language, language acquisition, historical linguistics, language change... ]
Tribe: Word Freaks - Group for people who love discussing words and writing style.
Meta Description: [ Words! Words are such wonderful things! Without them what would we be, but listless shells of uninspired, self-indulgent thought, unable to enlighten burden flatter insult ]
Tribe: Words of Power - For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive learning.
Meta Description: [ For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words ]
Verbage - If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.
Meta Description: [ Find the right verb for any situation. ]
Verbivore - Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
Word Fugitives - An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
Word Lab - A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
Meta Description: [ WordLab - The premier Internet resource for free, open-source naming, branding and identity content. ]
Word Quests - Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
Meta Description: [ A free online dictionary of English words from Latin and Greek word origins available for learning English words and etymologies with vocabulary definitions ]
Word Rogues - Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also contains active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites.
Meta Description: [ Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also contains active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites. ]
Wordelizer - Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick search of several word and language related sites.
Meta Description: [ Delve deeply into a word or subject. For word lovers! ]
Wordiness - A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.
Words, Words, and More Words - Discussions and articles concerning words.
Meta Description: [ Written words, spoken words, word games, old words, trendy words, debating words, negotiating words - we use words to communicate, connect, convince, change minds, entertain, to play, to work and more. Explore the world of words on the Internet. - dewey decimal 428.1 ]
WordWizard - Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
Meta Description: [ Ask about word origin - word and phrase origins and meanings ]
World Wide Words - Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.
Meta Description: [ World Wide Words. More than 1600 pages on the origins, history, evolution and idiosyncrasies of the English language worldwide. New words and words in the news are regularly featured. ]
Writer's Dreamtools - A series of useful tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block.
Meta Description: [ Larry Bellings collection of tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block. They include Historical Events by Day and Decade, Collection of Lists, Clichés and Catch Phrases, Slang Thesaurus, Humorous Quotations, and classic Internet humor. ]
Yale Style Manual - For the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.
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