| Grammar and Usage Links Many
schools, colleges and organizations have developed web sites devoted to grammar and
usage. While some of these sites have been incorporated into various pages of our
sites (indicated by and asterisk),others could not be integrated. Still,
we see these sites as very useful to freshamn writers, either with easy to understand
grammar and writing information, interactive exercises, or both. |
Big
Dog's Grammar, an extremely useful site, assists users through basics of grammar and
usage.
Mary Ellen Guffey's Communication@Work
is a very useful collection of interactive reviews of grammar and usage.
Georgia State University's English Grammar on the Web assitance
is aimed at ESL students and lacks some of the glitter of other sites, but delves deeply
into areas of writing other Centers fail to.
University of Victoria
gives a highly hypertexted online writing center, which considers many areas of writing.
It is one of the best I have viewed.
Focusing on Words
considers vocabulary from the perspective of its Latin and Greek heritage, but requires a
subcription for most of its information. It does explain other problem areas, such
as redunadancies.
Donna Garners' Pronoun
Packet actually is part of a site aimed at secondary education, but gives a complete
pronoun listing.
Copy Editing for
Magazines, by Mindy McAdams, mostly gives information about her course offering, but
includes an interactive spelling test.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary search screen
allows users to find definitions of words.
Roget's Internet Thesaurus
search screen allows users to find alternative words of similar meaning.
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute's Writing Center gives information on some areas of writing lacking in most
online Writing Centers.
Capital
Community College offers a well-thought out grammar and usage area, with clear
explanations and some interactivity.
Capital Community College's
guide to MLA gives a user-friendly reference to documentation. |
Department of Recreation and
Leisure Studies, Student Writing Guide is a complete online handbook with defitions
and explanations of most areas of writing.
Englishtown is a unique site in
the form of a virtual community.
The Grammar Bluebook promotes a a
hard cover copy of the book, but freely offers clear definitions and interactivity for
basics in grammar and usage.
University of Calgary
offers areas in "Parts of Speech," "Sentence elements,"
"Punctuation," "Word Use," and other usage concerns, with some
interactivity.
While not truly interactive, Paradigm is a very good
handbook and writing assitant.
Dave's ESL Cafe contains
many areas useful both to English as a Second Language students and all student writers.
Written primarily for ESL students, CNN
Newsroom & Worldview for ESL takes an interactive approach to vocabulary, using CNN news copy.
The interface is not immediately easy, citing a large number of news stories to link to,
but with a little patience, the site can be very rewarding. An area in grammar is also available.
Also primarily for ESL, Aardvark'd
EFL Resources various exercises in grammar and voculary, primarily for ESL, but useful
to freshman writers.
Yet another site for ESL but useful to all writers, English International offers
interactive grammar and usage help.
Yes, one more site primarily for ESL writers, Ruth Vilmi's Web World offers good help
despite a less than easy interface.
Garbl's Writing Resources Online
gives extensive links to many grammar, usage and style sites. |
