Links related to usage, writing, and research  

The following are only a few of the many Internet sites that students--or anyone--might find useful in finding usage and other kinds of writing help.  A note of warning: while all of these sites are in at least some ways useful, some of them might offer information that conflicts slightly with the usage manual your instructor has required for your class.  Remember that, unless stated otherwise, your class usage manual (A Writer's Reference or The Harbrace College Handbook) is and will remain the standard for your composition course.  Please report any dead links.   

Academic and other usage sites and OWLs (online writing labs)

Companion site for A Writer's Reference 6th ed. (Hacker)
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
University of Missouri Online Writery
Strunk's The Elements of Style  (Beware: some material on this site is out of date)
Junket Studies 11 Rules of Writing
Grammar Bytes! Interactive Grammar Review

English as Second Language (ESL)
Rong-Chang Li's ESL site
EFLWEB links

Spelling help
Spelling links from google.com search

Information on using the Internet and evaluating sites
American Library Association (not just for kids!)
Resources at learnthenet.com
New Mexico St. Univ. Library Evaluation Criteria for WWW sites
Ithaca College Library Guide to Critical Thinking (about the web)

Reference
Arkansas State University library
Amazon.com (commercial site, but valuable for reference)
Merriam-Webster Online
Britannica.com
Glossary of Poetic [and Rhetorical] Terms

Lit links
Poets.org
Perseus (antiquity to English Renaissance)
The Internet Classics Archive
The Internet Public Library (over 16,000 books online)
Representative Poetry Online


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