These guides are designed to point you to library resources (i.e. books, articles, and statistical sources) and quality websites for your research.
Business English Online is an excellent metapage with links to sites on writing, reading, and industry vocabularies.
A portal for language products with more than 1800 dictionaries in 250 languages. The featured English dictionary is the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. You can read your chosen word's definition, function, date of origin, and hyperlinked synonyms. You can also search through the specialty dictionaries on topics ranging from accounting to publishing.
A special section devoted to Professional Writing. Here, you will find handouts on different types of business communication, including resumés, employment letters and documents, academic applications, general business writing issues, letters, memos, and reports (all including samples and models).
Covers common problems in writing. You also have an option to submit a grammar or usage question. Take a look at the interactive quizzes if you require more help with grammar.
Lists hyperlinked synonyms for each word you choose divided into the parts of speech.
The Paradigm Online Writing Assistant provides guided exercises to writing different types of essays (exploratory, argumentative, etc.)
Offers a comprehensive overview of punctuation rules. Examples of correct and incorrect usage for each type of punctuation are provided along with additional exercises.
The University of Illinois Writers Workshop has writing tips, as well as the annotated lists of internet resources for technical writing, ESL and more.
Offers you guidance on essay writing. In the Writer's Toolbox, you can learn about different parts of the essay and topics related to the essay. In many cases, student writing samples along with instructor comments are included. The Writers’ Workbench allows you to submit short samples of your work for feedback from online writing tutors. Note: You may find the Writer's Toolbox useful when you are working on Unit 6: Writing Effective Essays.
The original and still relevant book, The Elements of Style, written by William Strunk, Jr., in 1918 and later revised by E.B. White (author of the ever-popular children's classic, Charlotte's Web), is provided online, with concise rules of usage and composition and lists of many commonly misused and misspelled words.
To help you avoid using too many clichés in your writing, check the Cliché Finder site, which indexes over 3,300 clichés. It also explains what a cliché is.
Provides over 130 printer-friendly instructional handouts organized into the areas of general writing concerns, English as a second language, grammar, spelling and punctuation, research/documenting sources, and professional writing.
These additional exercises correspond to the sections in your handbook exercises and use the same categories (e.g., grammatical sentences) and codes (e.g., G1-1). While some of the questions are repeats of those in your book, there are a number of new questions as well. Work through these exercises if you think you need some extra practice. This site uses Macromedia Shockwave.