Links for Writers
Style Guides for Citing Sources
Handbooks, dictionaries, style guides, grammar handbooks
Help in writing for international students
Interesting resources
Good reading
Bookstores
Just for fun
Style Guides for Citing Sources
- Style Manuals/Citation Guides - A good list of resources compiled by Schaffer Library.
- MLA Style. Citing Sources from the World Wide Web - The Modern Language Association style handbook and manual are the most prominent sources for guidelines on academic writing in the humanities. This site contains the only MLA-authorized guidelines for citing Internet resources. The guidelines include fourteen items to consider in a citation and several examples. From the MLA home page, go to MLA Style to Frequently Asked Questions.
Handbooks, dictionaries, style guides, grammar handbooks
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. Chuck Guilford, author of Beginning College Writing, has created a well-designed how-to write manual for the web.
- Ask Miss Grammar. If you can't find the answer to a grammar question, ask Miss Grammar or consult articles on various topics.
- Purdue On-Line Writing Lab - Dozens of hand-outs to help with writing problems
- Elements of Style by Strunk - The book all your professors seem to recommend.
- Bartlett's Quotations
- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
- Grammar & Style Notes by Jack Lynch - A long file with alphabetized notes
- The King's English by (H. W. Fowler) - An older, authoritative--& authoritarian--work.
- The Craft of Scientific Writing
- How To Say It: English Usage and Citation Guide - Best Information on the Net (BIOTN), chosen by librarians at
O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University - Dictionaries and Language Resources - One of Schaffer Library's list of useful websites. Excellent. Includes foreign language dictionaries and fonts.
- Indispensable Writing Resources. An annotated list of useful writing resources.
- ESL Site, Dave's ESL Cafe
- The ESL Independent Study Lab, Lewis and Clark
Interesting resources for writers
- The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
- A Word a Day home page
- Martindale's "The Reference Desk" (amazing collection of links)
Visit our web site devoted to study strategies and academic coaching.
Good reading
- Great Books Index - List of Titles
- Challenged and Banned Books
Bookstores
Just for fun
- Word Play - I love this site. Links to anagrams, clichÈs, crossword generator, Klingon language, puns, Sniglets, an automatic complaint letter Generator, a thesis title generator, and much more, most of it wonderfully useless.
- Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - Worst possible opening sentences of yet-to-be-written novels.
- AFU & Urban Legends Archives
- The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce