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Style & Grammar Guides |
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Chorus - Exploring New Media in the Arts & Humanities |
Homepage ("software reviews, original research, bibliographies, annotated link collections and Shockwave demonstrations" on the use of new media in the humanities; this is the reopened version of the site originally founded by Todd Blayone) |
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Electronic Research (includes info on bibliographical management programs) (John Norman, Ohio State U. / Chorus) |
Information Management (Sean Fosmire / Chorus) |
Frequently Asked Questions about English (extensive archive of postings to alt.usage.english by John Lawler, Linguistics, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
Grammar and Style Notes (excellent hypertext guide to writing) (Jack Lynch, Rutgers U.) |
The Grammar and Writing Page: A Guide to Grammar and Writing (includes computer-graded quizzes) (Charles Darling, Capital Community-Technical C., Hartford, Connecticut) |
A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation (Humanities Dept. & the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library, Capital Community-Technical C., Hartford, Connecticut) |
A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Assoc. (Patricia S. Burgess / Humanities Dept. & the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library, Capital Community-Technical C., Hartford, Connecticut) |
Guide to Citing Government Information Sources (Montana State U.) |
A Guide to Doing the Research Paper (Paul Brians, Washington State U.) |
Jargon File 3.0.0 - The Ultimate Index (remarkable hypertext glossary of slang, jargon, and techspeak) (Chris Blum) |
Keith Ivey's English Usage Page |
List of Homophones |
Mindy McAdams, "Magazine Copy Editing" (course; includes links to resources) |
MIT Handbook on Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems |
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NASA Research Publishing and Printing Branch |
Homepage (guides to writing style, technical editing, and document preparation) |
Capitalization |
Punctuation (nice little hypertext guide to the rules of punctuation, with examples) |
North Carolina State U. Online Writing Lab: Grammar Hotline (English Dept. faculty with professional editing experience answer questions by e-mail about specific writing problems and provide help with the structure of individual sentences) |
On-Line English Grammar (full-featured grammar handbook) (Anthony Hughes, Edunet International) |
William Strunk, The Elements of Style (1918) (Bartleby Library) |
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Style Guides Relating To Online Publications Or References |
Bibliographical Management and Note-Taking (Willard McCarty / Chorus) |
Citation Style for Internet Sources (Mark Wainwright) |
Electronic Research (includes info on bibliographical management programs) (John Norman, Ohio State U. / Chorus) |
Andrew Harnack & Gene Kleppinger (Eastern Kentucky U.), |
Style Sheet (MLA-Style Guidelines and Models for Documenting Internet Sources) |
Homepage |
E-mail messages |
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Sites |
Linkage Data (works linked from another site) |
Listserv messages |
Newsgroup (USENET) messages |
Synchronous Communications |
Telnet Sites |
World Wide Web (WWW) Sites |
MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Assoc.) |
Janice R. Walker, (U. South Florida), MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing) |
Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style ("Proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications"; revision 1.1) (NYU Psychology Dept.) |
U. Illinois Writing Center's Handbook (gopher guidebook on bibliographical style and grammar) |
U. Victoria English Dept.'s Writer's Guide (excellent hypertext guide to the form and style of critical-essay writing; includes glossary of literary and rhetorical terms) |
A Web of On-Line Grammars ("on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web [including] . . . reference grammars, learning grammars, and historical grammars") (Robert Beard, Bucknell U.) |
World Wide Words (Michael Quinion's Language Pages) (short articles and commentary on "turns of phrase," "topical words," "weird words," etc. on a changing daily or weekly basis; also includes notes and articles on usage, phonetics, the English language) |
Your Guide to Prepositions (for-sale program Windows 3.x and Windows 95; "helps you find the right preposition instantly") (Charles Prieur & Elizabeth Champion-Speyer) |
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