• College Writing Centers 
• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) -- Choose "Complete Handouts Index" to access 130 handouts covering grammar, punctuation, the writing process, academic writing, professional writing, and English as a second language. 
• Rensselaer Writing Center -- Click on "Virtual Writing Center," then "Writing in the Workplace" for links to guidelines and examples for preparing such items as business letters, memoranda, and proposals. 
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center -- Click on "Writer's Handbook" for links to help with grammar, punctuation, and style. 
• Dictionaries
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online -- This site includes links to: Cambridge Dictionary of American English (1999), Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs (1997), and Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms (1998). 
• Merriam-Webster Online -- This site includes links to the Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus. 
• Documentation of Internet Sources 
• Columbia Online Style -- This is a guide to a documentation style that is more streamlined than MLA's. Choose "Basic CGOS Style." 
• Online! Citation Styles -- Based upon the print text by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger, this site provides examples for citing and documenting a variety of online resources including e-mail messages, real-time communications, newsgroup messages, and World Wide Web sites. 
• Style Sheets for Citing Internet and Electronic Sources -- Developed by the University of California, Berkeley Library, includes entries for MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE (Council of Biology Editors), and Turabian styles.
• Grammar and Style Guides 
• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. -- This is the original (1918 ed.) Strunk guide, now in hypertext format via Bartleby.Com. Includes listings of words commonly misspelled and misused. 
• Guide to Grammar and Style -- This guide was written by Jack Lynch, an English professor at Rutgers University. Check the detailed table of contents to find advice on grammar, punctuation, and frequently misused words. 
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices -- This guide for advanced writers was created by Robert Harris, a former English professor. It contains an alphabetical list of rhetorical devices to make writing more creative and powerful. Each entry contains an explanation and examples. 
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant -- This site contains a detailed guide to academic writing. It covers the writing process and various kinds of essays. The editing section has a lot of information on grammar, mechanics, and sentence style. 

Writing Resources:  Print
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• Aaron, Jane E. The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2002. 
• Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. (N.B.: 6th ed. to be released in 5/03.) 
• Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual. 3d ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. 
• Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. 
• Strunk, William Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. 
• Troyka, Lynn Quitman. Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers. 6th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2002. 
• Williams, Joseph M. Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.