The Writer’s Reference List: The List of Sites You Absolutely Positively Need to Save

It’s the Internet, so I shouldn’t be surprised when I find an excellent list of reference/style/grammar sites for writers on a design blog.

Still, I’ve been looking for a chance to mention the Designers Who Blog site for ages. Despite the title, they also concern themselves with photography, advertising, writing, etc.

Stop by and kick the tires.

As for the list of links below, it’s a real grab bag. But it includes some hugely useful stuff.

Bookmark it, tag it, copy it – just make sure you’ve got it.

11 rules of writing

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Ain’t Grammar Fun: Words to the Wise

APA Style Tips

Bartleby.com

Bartleby.com: The Elements of Style

Bartleby.com: The Kings English

Bartleby.com: The American Heritage® Book of English Usage

Chicago Manual of Style Online

Chicago Manual of Style – Q&A

Clear English Grammar Resources

Cliché site

Colorado Uni Style Guide

Collective Nouns

Common Errors in English

Daily Grammar Tips

Doc Durden’s Guide to Good Grammar

Edit-Work.com Web Style Guide

English-Zone.Com: Grammar, writing, idioms …

Famous Quotes

Good Grammar, Good Style

Grammar Book: Grammer Rules, Punctuation and Capitalization, Rules for Writing Numbers

Grammar Bytes

inspired2write

Improving Writing Skills – Effective Writing & Written Communication

Jack Hart: Prevent punctuation and grammar errors that hurt credibility

Judy Vorfeld: Web Grammar

Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style

NICS Web style guide

Online English Grammar

OWL Handouts: Complete Index by Topic

ProofReadNOW: Grammar rules

Punctuation Made Simple

Quote Reference

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Spark Notes: Online guide to grammar

SUNY Geneseo Online Writing Guide

Tameri Guide for Writers

The Armchair Grammarian

The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

The Skeptic’s Dictionary

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Online Writing Lab

Times Online Style and Usage Guide

re: Writing

University of Calgary: Basic Elements Of English

University of Washington: Reference Tools – Citation & Writing Guides

uw-madison writing center writer’s handbook

Visual Thesaurus

Wordspy

Words: Woe and Wonder

Write Away – Learn how to become a better writer

Writers University

Writers Web

Writers’ Workshop: Grammar Handbook

Writers’ Workshop Writing Tips

Writing Guides

Writing resources from Study Guides and Strategies

Writing Tips

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Comments 8

  1. cat wrote:

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for the mention! Tomorrow will feature online dictionaries, the second post covered writing books (that I’ve found useful for someone at my stage in the craft). Monday is my deadline for getting to it for real – wish me luck.

    Posted 05 Jan 2007 at 8:49 pm   (Quote)
  2. Tom Chandler wrote:

    Good luck! Compiling long lists of links is work work work….

    Posted 06 Jan 2007 at 7:44 am   (Quote)
  3. Meredith Eisenberg wrote:

    Thank you for this! One of my New Year’s resolutions is to sharpen my editing skills. I’m finding I was very spoiled working for a government agency where multiple people read my work and fixed any typos. This list can only help me on my quest for tight writing with no errors.

    Posted 06 Jan 2007 at 12:33 pm   (Quote)
  4. Tom Chandler wrote:

    Thank the Designers Who Blog folks – who put the list together. Amazing how a few bits worth of links contain more power than shelves full of reference books.

    Posted 06 Jan 2007 at 1:35 pm   (Quote)
  5. Brian Clark wrote:

    Bookmarked at Delicious.

    Posted 07 Jan 2007 at 7:59 am   (Quote)
  6. David Airey wrote:

    Copywriting should be a compulsory subject in pretty much every modern discipline.

    I’ll hopefully have the chance to sift through the links sooner rather than later.

    All the best for 2007.

    Posted 08 Jan 2007 at 3:55 am   (Quote)
  7. Michael Stelzner wrote:

    Ow. Processor overload. Shutting down now…

    Good stuff

    Posted 09 Jan 2007 at 6:44 am   (Quote)
  8. Brad Shorr wrote:

    What a fantastic list! Thanks for putting it together.

    Posted 10 Jan 2007 at 2:55 pm   (Quote)

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