Helpful Web Sites for Writers and Teachers of Writing

The best dictionary site, covering many languages:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Information on citing electronic information in APA, MLA, and Chicago format from Bedford/St. Martin's On-line Reference Guide to to Using Internet Sources: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

OSU Writing Center Online contains handouts on many writing problems and links to online writing resources:
http://cwl.oregonstate.edu/

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) contains:

• Handouts on writing concerns, ESL, grammar, spelling, punctuation, research, resumes, and more
• Downloadable Powerpoint Presentations on APA Format, MLA Format, Research and the Internet, the Writing Process, Organizing Writing, Conquering the Comma, Sentence Clarity and Combining, and more
• Links to other online writing labs (OWLs) and internet resources
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle, by Alan Liu et al. at UC Santa Barbara, is a comprehensive website for humanities research: http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Helpful grammar, usage, and style sites:

The Writer¹s Handbook, University of Wisconsin, with many student helps including an Editing Checklist explaining common errors and a Proofreading Handout:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/ Punctuation Made Simple by Gary Olson
http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/

Grammar Toolkit, a glossary of grammar terms (Am Heritage Book of English Usage) http://www.bartleby.com/64/10.html

Parallelism, Passive Voice, Wordiness, Redundancy (Am Heritage Book of English Usage) http://www.bartleby.com/64/2.html

Science terms: Distinctions, Restrictions, and Confusions (Am Heritage Book of English Usage)
http://www.bartleby.com/64/4.html