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Writing Tutorials and Other Academic Resources

http://owl.english.purdue.edu
The website for the Writing Lab at Purdue University – many interactive tutorials, worksheets, and more.

http://englishplus.com/grammar --Grammar Slammer! 
This website provides a wide range of information on grammar and punctuation. Here you'll find everything from commas to capitalization to common mistakes.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors  --Common Errors in English. 
This guide lists several hundred errors as well as non-errors and commonly misspelled words. Compiled by Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University.

Writers' Resources

http://www.quintcareers.com/writing/business_writing.html
List of indispensable writing resources with direct links.

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 ed. Who said it? Find out here.
• The LOGOS Dictionary--Provides translations of words and phrases from 30 languages
• Rhyming dictionary what word rhymes with "purple"? Find out here.
• Roget's Thesaurus helps you find synonyms
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
• WWWebster Dictionary--On-line English Dictionary with thesaurus
• Dictionary.com helps you look up any English word
• Thesaurus.com helps you find synonyms

Online Texts

• The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia--A large collection of electronic versions of texts
• Project Bartleby--On-line texts
• Project Gutenberg--The premiere site for electronic texts
• Elements of Style by William Strunk--A classic text on grammar and composition

Research and Style Guides

• Literary Research Tools on the Internet
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (Columbia University Press)
• Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice Walker and Todd Taylor
• American Chemical Society Reference Guidelines
  

Resume-Writing

http://www.garywill.com/worksearch/resserv.htm
An expert provides guidance on developing your resume.

Literacy

http://www.literacyonline.org/
The site for Literacy.org: “research and innovation for a more literate world.”

Faculty Resources

http://wp.rutgers.edu/teachers/201/index.html

Rutgers' homepage for teaching resources.

http://wac.colostate.edu

The WAC Clearinghouse, "supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the curriculum."

http://www.wpacouncil.org

The site for the Council of Writing Program Administrators, a national association of college and university faculty with professional responsibilities for (or interest in) directing writing programs.

http://www.ncte.org

The site for the National Council of Teachers of English.

http://pubs.acs.org/books/references.shtml

POD Network Conferences

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

http://comppile.tamucc.edu/wiki/CompFAQs/Home

CompFAQ: offers many pedagogical and scholarly resources for writing instructors at all levels