Style Guides Writers Resources

Style Guides Writers Resources

Style Guides

Style guides are used by writers to keep up with changes to the language. Also for improving their own use of the language (words, phrases and grammar) in their writing. Often newspapers put out a style guide for their writers and editors.

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- Bimonthly publication, SPELL/Binder, contains articles on grammar, usage, word origins, and other subjects of interest to language lovers.
- From York University in Toronto, Canada.
- Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
- Paul Robinson's classic essay on periods, commas, semicolons, dashes.
- A generator of headlines and copy for journalists. Enter a word and the database is searched to provide a list of phrases related to that word.
- Easy to learn electronic writing style that will speed up email and online chatroom discussions.
- Richard Lederer's page, with contact information and a handful of his language-loving articles.
- List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
- Includes useful tips to help your spelling including homophones, words often misspelled, a dictionary search, an introduction to fingerspelling. Grammar, spelling and writing style guide.
- This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.
- An interactive site that uses the writing process to teach writing skills.
- Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
- Archive of articles about English grammar and style.
- A list of words and phrases to purge from your writing.
- Catalogue of writing or speaking mistakes and easily confusable words, with corrections.
- Prune the deadwood phrases from your writing. Site lists the worst from A to Z.
- The music and magic of words. This is the website for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day.
- The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
- This book offers an intensive course in sentence construction and punctuation.
- Reference for the home and corporate office, including capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence structure, forms of address, abbreviations, letter styles, and business forms.
- Free phrase database to help journalists, copywriters and content editors search common phrases.
- Group for discussions of words and language.
- A large, searchable collection of sports cliches, lingo, and jargon.
- A daily on-line column, featuring little known facts about well known words and phrases.
- A free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page, email it, or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft Word.
- Digital handouts on grammar and English usage. From subject-verb agreement and use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and argumentative essays. You can submit questions about grammar and writing.
- For questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage. Search a dictionary of words, names or quotations.
- The dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries.
- Answers to common questions about usage, style, grammar and punctuation.
- 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.
- Promoting clearer communication between the public and government. This site has resources for writers to attain that goal.
- If you are looking for just the right word, you may find it here. If not, you can suggest your own.
- Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
- For the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.
- A look at word usage in popular culture. The Dictionary of Concision is a complete manual of several thousand wordy phrases.
- Explains the fundamentals of critical reading and writing. Analyzing choices of content, language, and structure.
- A list of lesser-known features in English writing. Hendiadys, holonyms, and hypernyms.
- The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
- An exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
- Writing toys, games, and gizmo to inspire your creativity. Writing exercises.
- Tips on writing, English, and grammar. This site also contains active community college English syllabii and links to other writing, grammar sites.
- Articles and answers to frequently asked questions about grammar, mechanics, and style. Links and bibliography.
- Online directory for grammar, spelling, punctuation, research, creative writing, and proofreading resources.
- Explores the history, evolution byways, quirks, and curiosities of the English language. New and recent words and phrases are often featured, as are books on aspects of English. A weekly newsletter is sent by e-mail and RSS.
- A process and system for helping people become better writers. The site includes exercises, examples, and information about descriptive writing and metaphors.
- Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
- Step-by-step directions to writing an explication. Good and bad examples provided.
- Discussions and articles concerning words.
- Popular, award-winning online writing guide. Authoritative help with research, style, structure, major citation styles, mechanics, and revision.
- Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
- How to write research papers, and do presentations. Virtual library of links arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification.
- A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble. Organized by occasion.
- Group for people who love discussing words and writing style.
- Notes on the emerging language of technology. Reference and discussion tool. Last updated 1997.
- For people who love words, use them, feel them in their mouths as flavorful bursts of energy. This is the tribe for fun with words and receptive learning.
- An independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.
- Word lists that provide thematic units of English words derived from Latin and Greek sources.
- An interactive column by The Atlantic's Barbara Wallraff. Discovers needs in our language and recommends new words to fill them.
- Commentary on various technical aspects of writing: the nuts and bolts of narrative.
- An online tutorial for the parts of speech with style notes for the English Language.
- A searchable directory of thousands of glossaries and topical dictionaries containing terms and definitions on hundreds of subjects.
- Archive of articles covering writing and speaking skills, with emphasis on clear communication, basic design, communicating with international and multicultural audiences.
- Guide based on the style book given to all journalists at The Economist.
- Tests of usage, built interactively.
- A cooperative effort to coin useable terms and then trick people into using them regularly as though they are real words.
- From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
- Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
- Grammar, punctuation and style for journalists.
- Designed to help you bulletproof your writing. Extensive, alphabetical index of points of style.
- Help on punctuation and another page on grammar.
- Kenneth G. Wilson's handbook includes descriptive and prescriptive examples with hyperlinked cross-references.
- A series of useful tools to enhance writers' and students' creativity, spark ideas and fight writer's block.
- Provocative essays on word usage, writing ideas and style.
- A guide for legal writing in plain English.
- Consulting firm dedicated to training businesses to use plain English. Free newsletter and professional editing services.
- Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
- We compiled a list of the most common writing errors people tend to make. This is not a primer on grammar or essay-writing. This is a checklist of things which you might well do and which you must stop doing.
- The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
- Clichés, sayings or phrases listed with definitions and explanations. Clichés are organized by subject and alphabetically and you can use the search function.
- Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
- Delve deeply into a word or subject. Quick search of several word and language related sites.
- Articles about grammar information and hints. New Zealand site. Errs on the side of "correctness," not that of modern usage.
- An in-depth look at the words we use from CBC News.
- Provides advice on abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, plurals, possessives, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
- A guide to style, grammar, usage, and more by a guy named Ralph.
- A message board where you can request and brainstorm unique words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang.
- A brief guide to correct English punctuation.

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