Web+Resources

=List of Web Resources=

[|Ultimate Style: The Rules Of Writing] The web’s ultimate guide to grammar provides a database of topics and an easy-to-search A-Z list of common questions.

[|Grammar Girl] Mignon Fogarty’s quick and dirty tips for better writing. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules.

[|Better Writing Skills] This site contains 26 short articles with writing tips about ampersands, punctuation, character spacing, apostrophes, semicolons and commas, difference between i.e. and e.g. etc.

[|The Guide to Grammar and Writing] An older, yet very useful site that will help you to improve your writing on word & sentence level, paragraph level and also essay & research paper level.

[|Writer’s Block] A compact resource with over 20 articles that cover abbreviations, capitalization, numbers, punctuation, word usage and writing styles.

[|Paradigm Online Writing Assistant] This site contains some useful articles that explain common grammar mistakes, basic punctuation, basic sentence concepts etc. Worth visiting and reading. The Learning Centre contains similar articles, but with more examples.

[|Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style] These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage put by Jack Lynch, an Associate Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, for his classes.

[|English Style Guide] This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist. The site contains various hints on how to use metaphors, punctuation, figures, hyphens etc. Brief and precise.

[|40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation] “Purdue University maintains an [|online writing lab] and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.”

[|Common Errors in English] A collection of common errors in English, with detailed explanations and descriptions of each error.

[|AskOxford: Better Writing] A very useful reference for classic errors and helpful hints with a terrible site navigation.

[|learning lab / writing skills] This site offers over 20 .pdf-documents with main rules and common mistakes related to summarising, paraphrasing, referencing, sentences, paragraphs, linking words and business writing. Handy.

[|Using English] UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.

[|Online Writing Courses] Free courses are a great way to improve your writing skills. The courses shown here focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing.