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Grammar
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www.bartleby.com/64
Described as a "practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English", this site provides excellent advise and guidance on matters of grammar, style, word choice, and usage. |
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www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t27&subject=s8
Published by Oxford University Press and available via Oxford Reference Online. Edited by T. F. Hoad this dictionary includes over 17,000 entries. "Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology contains a wealth of information about the English language and its history. Find out where the words 'bungalow' and 'assassin' came from, what 'nice' meant in the Middle Ages and much more."
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www.bartleby.com/141
This is the classic text on clear and plain writing, now somewhat dated but still very practical. |
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www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/grammar_handbook/grammar_handbook.htm
Sponsored by the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this site provides a comprehensive manual of standard English grammar and usage. |
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www.bartleby.com/116/index.html
Not your standard guide to modern American English, but full of useful advice nonetheless. |
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www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t26&subject=s8
Published by Oxford University Press and available via Oxford Reference Online. Edited by Bryan A. Garner. "In this book of crisp, precise and often witty pronouncements on modern American English, Bryan Garner decisively answers these and hundreds of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on a host of evidence to support his
judgments, citing thousands of examples - good, bad, and ugly - from sources such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek.
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www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t30&subject=s8
Published by Oxford University Press and available via Oxford Reference Online. Edited by Robert Allen. "This Pocket edition is based primarily on Robert W. Burchfield's renowned The New Fowler's Modern English Usage. Robert Allen has taken all the key elements from the best-selling parent work, rewriting entries to present the arguments and recommendations in a more accessible and digestible form, and has added completely new topics such as American English, new words, and gender-neutrality. Clear guidance on grammar, usage, syntax, and style for English is provided."
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www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
This page maintains links with online grammar pages and lessons of as many languages as can be found on the Web. It includes all types of grammars: reference grammars, language lessons, and historical grammars, so long as they represent creditable and substantial language learning tools. |
WWW Research
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www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm
This site is an online workshop on WWW search engines and strategies for effective retrieval. Devote some effort to this site, claims the author, "if you hope to take advantage of the resources offered by the Web without spending many fruitless hours flailing about, and eventually drowning, in a sea of irrelevant information." This is sound advice. |
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www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
This tutorial represents the substance of the two-part Internet workshops offered all year by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The workshop offers a progression from beginning information to advanced searching. The emphasis is on the use of Web organization and analysis done by others, rather than strictly on keyword searching using the major search engines--an approach dictated, say the authors, by the sheer size and uneven quality of the Internet. |
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www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Even after you have found information on the Web, the question remains: Is it reliable? This is a much more difficult problem to solve than it is for most printed resources, which have already gone through some kind of evaluation just to get published (and selected by a library). Start here to learn some techniques of assessing the quality of Web information. |
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http://library.albany.edu/internet
This site offers tutorials and search tips on both basic and advanced Internet searching, along with tips on how to evaluate the quality of a Web page. |
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www.searchenginewatch.com
This site offers a current-awareness service on all of the major search engines, along with reviews, ratings, and tests. There is a section on Web searching tips. |
Links
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http://leo.stcloudstate.edu
There is help on this site for just about every writing problem students experience in college, from organizing papers to getting right the use of apostrophe. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu
This site is the online resource collection for the Purdue University Writing Lab. There is much here, however, applicable to any writing or Web research situation, including links to other writing lab sites. |
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http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html
Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide
Originally prepared for students in the English Department at the University of Victoria, this guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature. All aspects of writing, documentation, grammar, and style are discussed. |
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www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html
This page maintains links with online grammar pages and lessons of as many languages as can be found on the Web. It includes all types of grammars: reference grammars, language lessons, and historical grammars, so long as they represent creditable and substantial language learning tools. |
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