Assignments

Policies

Resources

     Dictionaries

          WWWebster Dictionary - contains dictionary and thesaurus

          Oxford English Dictionary

         Your Dictionary.Com - accesses over 260 foreign language dictionaries and  specialty dictionaries in more than 85 subject areas, such as law, finance, medicine, linguistics, rhetoric

         OneLook Dictionaries - contains many kinds of dictionaries; a good place to look up phrasal verbs, for example

     Usage Guides and Style Sheets

          The American Heritage Book of English Usage - a practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English, including grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups, and scientific forms

          Commonly Confused Words

          Common Errors in English

          Electronic Citation Styles

          Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style 

     Grammar and Punctuation

        Capital Community College Grammar Site

          English Language Teaching Webliography

          Online Writing Center at Purdue University

     Other

         Roget's Internet Thesaurus

         Lycos Zone - includes definitions, synonyms, antonyms, rhyming words

         Silva Rhetoricae - a beginner's guide through the forest of rhetoric.

        Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, 10th edition.

       Richard Lederer's Verbivore Website - a good list of Tools of the Trade, in addition to links to language sites on the Internet with a sense of humor.

      Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, 1950-1988

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