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NOW AVAILABLE: My edition of Johnson's Dictionary (Levenger Press) Guide to Grammar and Style By Jack Lynch Last revised 3 August 2001. Note: I've been working on a new guide that might help some readers of this one, called Getting an A on an English Paper. It's far from finished, but it may still be useful. Jump directly to: Contents a b c d e f g h i j l m n o p q r s t u v w Links I've also ...

Discovering What to Write. This online guide offers help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing your writing--of special interest to English composition students and instructors.

Common Errors in English Go to list of errors. What is an error in English The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this ...

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CITATION STYLE FOR RESEARCH PAPERS APA Turabian MLA Chicago AMA Which should you use Ask each of your teachers which style they want you to use. If they have no preference, you can use any or follow these guidelines: APA: psychology, education, and other social sciences. MLA: literature, arts, and humanities. AMA: medicine, health, and biological sciences. Turabian: designed for college ...

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Spellweb is an evolving experiment in sidesifting the web for useful information. In this case, it lets the web vote on alternative spellings (or web popularity) of words.

The 11 Rules of Writing site is a concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills.

Updated 7/28/2000! You've ''seen'' them. Maybe on a sign at the ''grocery'' store, maybe in an ad in your ''local'' newspaper. Even in a ''memo'' that circulated throughout your company. They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places. Such as...

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VirtualSalt A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices Robert A. Harris Version Date: June 10, 2002 This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing. Note: This book was written in 1980, with some changes since. The devices presented are not in ...

The University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide Welcome Welcome to the University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide. Originally prepared for students in the English Department at the University of Victoria, the Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature. We're pleased to make its hypertext version available to writers and students of literature ...

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Join a conversation on Word Police and Word Court in Atlantic Unbound's reader forum, Post & Riposte. Read recent Word Court columns from The Atlantic Monthly, and browse the Word Fugitives archive, in The Court Record. Previous Word Police Exam: Meaning Detectives (A-M) (June 7, 2000) Go to the Word Police exam index. June 21, 2000 Current entrance exam: Meaning Detectives (N-Z) The Word Police ...

Learning the spelling rule about doubling the final consonant when adding suffixes to English words. Children's songs as a teaching aid. Spelling practice. ...

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CITATION GUIDES Last Updated on June 8, 2000 Web Sources Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information (Li and Crane) MLA and APA styles for books and chapters, journal and newspaper articles, discussion lists and e-mail Includes web and CD-ROM Excludes government documents Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications (U.Memphis) Extensive guide to citing paper, microform, and ...

The Parts of Speech Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show ...

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The Punctuation Project Home Page Directors: Nigel Hall and Anne Robinson School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University 799, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester M20 2RR United Kingdom Tel: (+44) 161 247 2069. . . Fax: (+44) 161 247 6392. . . Email: N.Hall@mmu.ac.uk Contents Project Background Project Personnel Project Activities Bibliographies Articles, chapters and books about ...

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Fave collective nouns An amalgamation of metallurgists An army of caterpillars A bale of turtles A band of men A barren of mules A bevy of beauties A bevy of roebucks A bloat of hippopotamoi A bouquet of pheasants A brood of hens A building of rooks A business of ferrets A cast of hawks A cete of badgers A charm of finches A cloud of theoretical meteorologists A clowder of cats A clutch of eggs ...

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