Guide to Grammar and Writing Contains definitions, suggestions, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, and a way to submit queries regarding grammar and usage. An award-winning Website from Capital Community College in Hartford

Guide to Writing Research Papers Prepared by the Humanities Department at Capital Community College. Suggestions on research techniques and patterns of documentation based on the style recommended by the Modern Language Association. There is also an online research guide based on documentation patterns approved by the American Psychological Association.

Recommendations for Writing Papers about Literature Another handy and authoritative guide from Capital Community College in Hartford.

Online Dictionaries, Thesauri, Encyclopedias from the Capital Library

Writer's Web This site is maintained by the Writing Center at the University of Richmond. The material here on getting started with writing projects and on peer editing is especially helpful. Visit, also, the material in "Focusing & Connecting Ideas."

Lists of Grammar Lists This site provides lists of grammar items for use by ESL/EFL teachers. These lists have been prepared by ESL/EFL teachers to share with colleagues. The title of the Website doesn't begin to do justice to what you can discover here.

Traditional Grammar: An Interactive Book Don Hardy, Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, provides this excellent, thorough, and easy to use guide to traditional grammar.

Modern English Grammar Daniel Kies, Department of English, College of DuPage, maintains this complete and easy-to-navigate textbook.

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing From Michael Harvey at Washington College, a thorough, readable, and engaging online textbook.

The Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab (OWL) Contains on-line exercises and links to other resources for writing assistance. One of the best academic sites for writing help.

Best English Links on the Web part of "Languages on the Web," based in Italy, and especially useful for ESL students and teachers.

Proofreading Symbols and Abbreviations based on the MLA Handbook.

The Writers' Workshop From University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Several excellent handouts and other useful features make this one of the best of the university-based online writing centers.

JAC: The Journal of Advanced Composition From the University of South Florida. Past articles are archived and available online (somewhat tardily); current articles are not.

Vocabula Review Published on the third Tuesday of each month by Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and author of The Dictionary of Concise Writing and The Dimwit's Dictionary.

Salt Lake Community College Goes way beyond grammar handouts to MOOs and other interactive uses of the computer. Essays for teachers of writing, also.

Colgate University Writing Center Some good handouts and advice, taking students from beginning to ending of the writing process.

Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant A superb, nicely organized, and extremely helpful guide for Composition. By Chuck Guilford, an English Professor at Boise State University

Grammar and Style Guide Put together by Professor Jack Lynch of Rutgers University. Lots of good advice, easy to use (alphabetical listing, hyperlinked), extremely useful.

Elements of Style A hyperlinked version of the venerable style guide written by William Strunk (not the E.B. White-edited version). Maintained by the Bartleby Project at Columbia University.

University of Victoria (Canada) Writer's Guide A fully hyperlinked textbook for Composition! Includes sample essays of several types.

Allan K. Smith Writing Center at Trinity College Includes some hand-outs, resources for teachers as well as students

Cybercomp Using the resources of the Internet for English Composition

Online Technical Writing A completely online textbook prepared by David A. McMurrey, at Austin Community College (ACC) in Austin, Texas

Rensselaer Writing Center This online document is especially useful for students in technical writing courses.

An Online English Grammar From Edunet International, by Anthony Hughes.

Frequently Asked Questions about English Usage From the newsgroup alt.English.usage—searchable and thorough

The Dakota State University Online Writing Lab The Dakota State University Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides writing assistance to students and faculty on the DSU campus and to students in remote locations.

ESL Home Page Resources for students and teachers of English as a Second Language.

Writing the Argumentative Essay An extremely thorough resource, from Bill Daly at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University's English Department has created this guide to "the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric."

The Writing Center at Colorate State The Colorado State University Online Writing Center maintains this site. It covers matters like documentation, consideration of audience, writing and preparing for a speech, etc.

Analytical Writing for Science and Technology Dr. Tom Georges of the NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, has put together an extensive course in technical writing. Most of the text material is available online. Extensive yet easy to use and filled with great advice for all writers.

CONTENTS MAIN PAGE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS Technical Requirements Navigating Sentence Sense Using Applications Using a Word Processor ESL TIPS CHARTS AND TABLES Auxiliary Verbs Common Verb Contractions Use of Modal Auxiliaries The Four Forms of Regular Verbs Common Irregular Verbs Some Common Prepositions Verbs, Gerunds and Infinitive Completers Summary of Comma Use Uses of Reported Speech Clause Connectors Summary of Solutions for Run-ons Agreement With to do, to have & to be Pronouns Spelling Chart Correction Tally OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES SEARCH ENGINE