- William Strunk, Jr.'s The Elements of Style
This Web site contains the section from Strunk's The Elements of Style titled "Elementary Rules of Usage."
- The Writing Center @ Iowa State University
This Web site, provided by Iowa State University's Writing Center, discusses the steps of the writing process through links to other major universities' resources.
- OWL Handouts: Complete Index by Topic
This Web site, provided by the Purdue Online Writing Lab, offers handouts relating to many different areas for writing improvement. Of interest are links to "Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres," "Sentence Construction," and "Exercises/Answer Keys."
- Grammar and Usage Guide
This Web site, sponsored by the Purdue Online Writing Lab, offers a guide for spelling, punctuation, and grammar. All materials can be downloaded for class handouts.
- Refdesk.com
This Web site calls itself "the single best source for facts on the Net."
- Dictionary.com
This Web site offers a wide range of reference tools, such as word-search feature in both dictionary and thesaurus modes; Roget's Thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms; "Word of the Day" entries; access to German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and other language dictionaries; translator for instant translation of Web pages and text; writing resources for grammar, usage; style guides and writing tips; online help for questions about words, grammar, and usage; and free software that works with both the dictionary and the thesaurus and allows users to look up words while working in almost any program.
- Merriman-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
This Web site contains the definitive online dictionary.
- Webopedia.com
This Web site provides a searchable index of technical terms and acronyms as well as what each stands for and an explanation about what they mean.
- Thesaurus.com
This Web site, which allows users to browse an alphabetical list of headwords and subjects, contains a translator for instant translation of web pages and text, writing resources for grammar and usage, style guides and writing tips and free software that allows users to look up words while working in almost any program.
- Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center
This Web site contains the definitive online dictionary and thesaurus.
- MLA
This Web site provides a guide for the MLA style format.
- APA
This Web site provides a guide for the APA style format.
- Columbia Online
This Web site provides a guide for "electronically-accessed sources" for both humanities-oriented formats (MLA and Chicago) and for scientific styles (APA and CBE).
- Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
This Web site, compiled and edited by Karla Tonella, a University of Iowa journalism student, offers an annotated collection of links to the best and most up-to-date citation guides that show how to properly cite resources from the Internet. It includes style guides for APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, BSE styles, as well as a description of how to cite references from Lexis/Nexis.
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