- General Resources:
- Photoshop Tutorials – Free Fonts – Free Photoshop tutorials, free fonts, QuarkXPress, Desktop Publishing and many other graphics tutorials are offered at Mike’s Sketchpad.
- Dreamweaver Training London – Dreamweaver courses London or on-site training anywhere in the UK. Three Dreamweaver course levels: Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced. Learn to use Dreamweaver in your office or ours.
- World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) — An extensive site “devoted to the English language – its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution.” Always interesting.
- English Usage, Style, & Composition — A collection of reference works at Bartleby.com, including American Heritage, Strunk & White, Fowler’s King’s English, and other indispensable public-domain works. Worth a bookmark.
- Grammar Resources on the Web — the University of Chicago Writing Program provides annotated links to useful Web sites on grammar and style. Eminently sensible.
- EnglishForums.com — Discussion groups on English grammar, usage, and style.
- Rhetoric:
- The Rhetoric Server (Berkeley)
- Chiasmus.com (Mardy Grothe) — A deliciously eccentric site on the joys of chiasmus.
- Sylva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (Gideon Burton, Brigham Young) — A superb guide to classical rhetoric, with definitions of many rhetorical terms.
- Style Guides:
- Strunk, The Elements of Style (1918 edition) (Bartleby)
- H. W. Fowler, The King’s English (Bartleby)
- Guardian Style Guide — A thorough guide to the house style of The Guardian. American users should note that it’s a British publication; all users should note that it settles their own house style, and doesn’t pretend to rule on the language as a whole.
- Papers: Expectations, Guidelines, Advice, and Grading (Jeannine DeLombard and Dan White, Univ. of Toronto) — Eminently reasonable and extremely helpful advice for writers of college-level English papers.
- Learn to Write (Brian Dana Akers) — Brief, opinionated reviews of some major guides to writing.
- Grammar:
- On-Line English Grammar (mostly for non-native speakers)
- HyperGrammar
- Pages on Specific Topics:
- Dictionaries and Lexicography:
- WordNet: A Lexical Database for English (Princeton) — “An on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.”
- LOGOS Dictionary
- Writing various genres:
- Drama:
- Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing (Bill Johnson) — A collection of short original pieces on writing, especially screenplays. Focuses on plot, characters, that sort of thing.
- Poetry:
- A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry (Harry Rusche, Emory) — Defines just a handful of terms, but in some depth, with useful examples.
- Children’s Literature:
- Technical Writing:
- Technical Writing (Ronald B. Standler) — A well written collection of useful tips for technical writers. Bear in mind, though, that some guidelines apply only to technical writing.
- Drama:
- Literary Terms:
- English Grammar — Glossary of Terms (UsingEnglish.com) — An extensive set of very brief definitions of terms from grammar and rhetoric.
- Writers’ Groups:
- Writing World #0151; A free, biweekly newsletter for writers, by the editor of the now defunct Inklings.
- General Essays on Style:
- Anti-Pedantry Page — A polemical page demonstrating the use of the singular “their” in Jane Austen and elsewhere.
- Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- Garbl’s Fat-Free-Writing Links (Gary B. Larson) — A wonderful set of links on ways to cut down on wordiness.
- Mechanics:
- “It’s” vs. “Its” (Gary Shapiro)
- Bibliography and Citation:
- Miscellaneous Observations:
- The Word Detective (Evan Morris) — A “column answering readers’ questions about words and language.”
- The Word Wizard
- Copyright:
- Copyright Clearance Center Online
- The Copyright Website
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
- Copyright Law (Ronald B. Standler) — A helpful, informal overview of American copyright law.
- Plagiarism in Colleges in USA (Ronald B. Standler) — A very useful essay on plagiarism, including the ethical and legal questions, with plenty of guidelines for students.
- Copyediting:
- Editors Ink — A guide to copyediting, valuable for both professional editors and novice writers.
- Writing Programs and Centers:
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) — One of the best on-line writing centers, with the most extensive links. Highly recommended.
- U. Victoria English Dept.’s Writer’s Guide — Includes advice on mechanics, logic, literary terms, documentation, and other writing topics.
- The Writer’s Center
- WriteBusiness.com — Mostly a commercial site, but includes a good collection of free resources, including tips on copyright, MS preparation, and the writing business.
- Inkspot: Resources for Writers
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Writers House
- Writing Assessment Services
- Fiction Writer’s Connection
- RhetNet: Net/Texts
- Writers Write: Internet Writing Journal
- Garbl’s Writing Resources On Line — Extensive and annotated collection of links to writing resources on the Web.
- PEN Oakland Resource for Writers
- Common Errors in English (Paul Brians, Washington State Univ.)
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- Garbl’s Editorial Style Manual — A useful collection of tips on grammar, spelling, usage, and mechanics.
- The Vocabula Review — An electronic journal on usage. Tends to be conservative, but not mindlessly so; still, perhaps too splenetic for many. A regular feature, “Grumbling about Grammar,” suggests the tone a little too well.
- SUNY Geneseo Online Writing Guide (Paul Schacht and Celia Easton) — A useful collection of advice.
- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- CompPile (Rich Haswell) — “An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing.” A large and impressive bibliography of sources.
- Everyone Who’s Anyone in Trade Publishing — A searchable guide to agents, editors, and publishers in the US, UK and Canada.
- Plagiarism (Sharon Stoerger) — A huge collection of information on plagiarism, copyrights, intellectual freedom, term paper mills, and so on. Nearly comprehensive.