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Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
www.wordfocus.com
Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
www.junketstudies.com
Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
www.wordwizard.com
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.
www.bartleby.com
Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
home.earthlink.net
Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
www.westegg.com
List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
www.angelfire.com
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
www.powa.org
Online Classes in Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
www.rhetoric.umn.edu
From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
www.uky.edu
An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
www.theatlantic.com
A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
www.wordlab.com
Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.
www.clichesite.com
Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
grammar.uoregon.edu
The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
www.mla.org