Basic Prose Style and Mechanics: Craig Waddell's very concise and well-written guide to style, with a companion guide to some common considerations of punctuation and mechanics. Draws especially on Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, and Joseph Williams, Style: Ten Lessons
in Clarity & Grace. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Sylva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric: Gideon Burton's guide to classical and Renaissance rhetoric. Extensive treatment of rhetorical terms and approaches, although without much depth in the examples. (Brigham Young U.)
The Elements of Style: The first edition (1918) of William Strunk's classic guide to good writing. (Bartleby)
Guide to Grammar and Style: Jack Lynch's extensive handbook on grammatical and stylistic considerations. Arranged alphabetically. Not as compact or as easy to use as Waddell's guide, but covers a lot of ground. (Rutgers U.)
Indispensable Writing Resources: An extensive and well-selected collection of links to writing-related websites. Includes online writing labs and grammar help, as well as subject-specific resources for journalism, writing about literature, scientific/technical writing, etc. (Stetson U.)
NWCA Links
to Writing Center Handouts: A huge indexed collection of links to handouts
on every aspect of the writing process. A superb collection, but a little
unwieldy to use for casual reference. (National Writing Center Association.)
Paradigm
Online Writing Assistant: An impressively designed
hypertext guide to the writing process. Especially good on style and sentence
combining. Grammatical help is useful but does not try to be exhaustive.
Includes an e-mail discussion list, a chat room, and a question-and-answer
area. (Boise State U.)
Iowa
State U.'s OWL: Handouts A very extensive group of handouts collected
from across the web and covering all aspects of the writing process. Virtually
an on-line writing textbook. Also, see their "Q&A" section
for a quick look at commonly asked questions.
Hypertext
Writer's Guide: A comprehensive online textbook, including
a good treatment of style, as well as sections on grammar, organization,
etc. (U. of Victoria)
Documentation
The Writing Center Guide to Documenting Sources:
A comprehensive guide to documentation in the Modern Language
Association, American Psychological Association, and American Chemical
Society styles. (Skidmore College)
Bibliography Styles Handbook:
A comprehensive guide to documentation in the Modern Language
Association and American Psychological Association styles. (University of
Illinois/Urbana-Champaign)
Columbia Guide to Online Style: Janice Walker's excellent guide to documentation for the rapidly changing area of electronic sources. (Columbia U. Press)
General Reference Resources
Martindale's Reference Desk: An eclectic and very extensive collection of links to information on the Internet--everything from medicine to local weather to the CIA's statistics on Montenegro.
Virtual Reference Desk: A clearinghouse for access to all sorts of information--from government statistics to reference books to how to buy a house.
Argus Clearinghouse: Links to
on-line resources in a very wide variety of subject areas.
The English Server: A host of resources for work in English studies and related fields. (Carnegie-Mellon U.)
Merriam-Webster: The on-line version
of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, as well
as other materials from Merriam-Webster.
OneLook Dictionaries: A limited
area search engine (LASE) which enables you to look up words in over a
hundred on-line dictionaries at once. Includes technical and professional
dictionaries as well as general ones.
Encyclopedia.com: A free online encyclopedia. Very short articles, but useful for quick reference. (Electric Library)
Encarta Online: The free version of Microsoft Encarta. 16,000 abridged entries and a world atlas. (Microsoft Corp.)
Early Modern Literary Studies: An online refereed journal, concerned primarily with Renaissance and seventeenth-century English literature. (For convenience, this link is to the non-frames version of the site; a frames version is also available.)
Luminarium: A collection of medieval and early modern English literary texts. Also offers collections of essays and articles on Middle English, Renaissance, and Seventeenth Century literature. Includes some student essays.
Electronic Antiquity: Includes articles and dialogue on classical studies. A gopher site, rather than a web page.
RhetNet: An online journal on rhetoric and composition. Focuses on computers and writing. Departs fairly sharply from the usual print-based models of scholarship.
Enculturation: Subtitled "A Journal for Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture." A cultural studies journal covering subjects ranging from rap music to seventeenth-century poetry.
Postmodern Culture: Online journal of cultural studies. Focuses on contemporary culture.
Writing for the World: Keith Dorwick's site for the publication of student writing. Well worth a look, to see what other students are writing about, and how they are approaching their writing. Also a good place to publish your own writing from this class. (U. of Illinois/Chicago)
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Hunter, Dept. of English
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Last updated 9/27/99
