Writing Information

• UMD Library On-Line
• Writing Guide -- Sociology-Anthropology
• UMD Achievement Center

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Purdue Online Writing Lab

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers over 100 handouts on English writing skills. The collection could be called an online grammar book or a basic writing course. Categories covered include sentences, punctuation, parts of speech, spelling, methods of citing sources in research paper writing, English as a second language, and general writing concerns such as writers block, proofreading, non-sexist language, resume writing, business and professional writing, and coping with writing anxiety.

Writing Resource Center -- SUNY Empire State College

Writing Resource Center -- SUNY Cortland

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Writing Centers and Programs

• Dartmouth Writing Program

• KU Writing Center -- University of Kansas

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center

• Writing Resources -- Princeton Writing Center

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Other Useful Sources

• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
  
  
• Auto Comma (to insert commas in sentences) -- Doug Beeferman
  
  
• Basic Legal Citation -- Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell University's Law School
  
  
• Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Elecltronic Sources on the Internet -- Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
  
  
• BibMe -- bibliography maker
  
  
• Blog with free writing tips -- EnglishSoftware.org
  
  
• Business Writer's Free Library -- Authenticity Counseling Company: Free Management Library
  
  
• Chicago Manual of Style
  • The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (and not so FAQ)
    
    
• Citing Electronic or Internet Resources -- UMD S-A-C-H-Cl Writing Guide
  
  
• The Columbia Guide to Online Style -- Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor
  
  
• A Directory of Web Sites for Writers -- The New St. Martin's Handbook
  
  
• EasyBib
  
  
• Elements of Style -- William Strunk, Jr.
  
  
• English Composition: Writing for an Audience -- Annenberg Media
  
  
• The English Grammar Clinic -- Lydbury English Centre
  
  
• English grammar software and a blog with free writing tips -- EnglishSoftware.org

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• The King's English (2nd ed.) -- H. W. Fowler

  From Garrison Keilor's, The Writers Almanac for March 10, 2008

  ... Henry Watson Fowler [was] born in Tonbridge, Kent, England on March 10, 1858.

  He studied at Oxford and taught Latin, Greek, and English at a boy's school in northwest England for 17 years, then resigned and moved to the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, built himself a one room cottage, and began living like a hermit. Though he spent all his time writing essays and produced enough to fill two book-length manuscripts, he could not succeed in getting them published. He then came up with the idea to write "a sort of English composition manual, from the negative point of view, for journalists & amateur writers." Collaborating with his brother on the work for Oxford University Press, he wrote The King's English (1906), which begins:

  "Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid."

  The first chapter, entitled "Vocabulary," lays out the following principles:

  "Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance."

  The book was a success and he was commissioned to produce The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, which appeared in 1911. His biggest success, however, was A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), a collection of common mistakes in English that Fowler organized into categories, such as "Battered Ornaments," "Love of the Long Word," "Sturdy Indefensibles," "Swapping Horses," and "Unequal Yokefellows."

  T. S. Eliot said, "Every person who wishes to write ought to read A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ... for a quarter of an hour every night before going to bed."

• The Five Paragraph Essay
  
  
• Formula Follows the Evolution of Writing Styles -- NewScientist (01 May 2012)
  
  
• The Grammar and Punctuation Glossary -- University of Phoenix Online
  
  
• Grammar and Style Notes -- Jack Lynch
  
  
• Grammars On-Line -- Robert Beard, Bucknell University
  
  
• Guide to Grammar and Writing -- Charles Darling
  
  
• Internet Documentation Guide -- Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger
  
  
• The Internet TESL Journal
  
  
• Legal Writing Institute
  
  
• Manual of Style [Style guide] -- Wikipedia
  
  
• National Writing Project
  
  
• Netiquette Home Page -- Albion.com
  
  
• Netiquette -- Virginia Shea (Book published by Albion Books)
  
  
• Novel Ideas -- National Public Radio

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• Online Resources for Writers -- Amherst College
  
  
• OnlineWritery -- University of Missouri
  
  
• On-Line Writing Classes -- Bill Daly
  
  
• Only a Matter of Opinion -- ThinkQuest
  
  
• Other Writing Labs & Writing Centers on the WWWeb --OWL
  
  
• Paradigm-- Online Writing Assistant, Chuck Guilford
  
  
• The Phrase Finder
  
  
• The Reading Matrix
  
  
• Reporting, Writing & Editing -- Poynter Institute
  
  
• Resources for Writers -- George Mason University
  
  
• Style guide [Manual of style] -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Tools for Print Journalists -- Committee of Concerned Journalists
  
  
• Typography for Lawyers
  
  
• Undergraduate Writing Center -- University of Texas
  
  
• UsingEnglish.com
  
  
• University College Writing Workshop: Writing Handouts -- University of Toronto
  
  
• "Vancouver" style citations
  
  
• Webgrammar's Free Tips -- Judy Vorfeld
  
  
• Writing and Speaking -- findhow.com
  • Writing Process
    • Citing Sources
    • Editing
    • Grammar
    • Inspiration
    • Organization and Style
      
      
• The Writing Center -- Harvard University
  
  
• Writing Center Handouts -- The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
  
• Writing Argumentative Essay -- Online English Degree
  
  
• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students -- Penn State University
  
  
• Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students -- University of Vermont

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ESL / TOEFL

English as a Second Language
Teaching Of English as a Foreign Language

English can be a very funny language sometimes. And it can often be difficult to sort out some of the fine points. The OWL has some good hints on making sense of English as a Second Language—and good hints about English as one’s first language too. Have a look . . .


The Purdue Online Writing Lab
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>

ESL Students
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/5/25/>

Writing in North American Higher Education: A Primer for International Students
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/683/01/>

• ESL -- Wikipedia
• The Internet TESL Journal
• TOEFL -- Wikipedia
• ESL Cyber Listening Lab
• ESL Gold
• ESLPartyland
• ESL Resources -- Online English Degree
• Grammar Safari -- Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Learning English -- BBC
• The Reading Matrix
• University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute
• UsingEnglish.com