Online Reference Materials:
1. Bartleby’s Reference Books Online includes links to dictionaries, thesauri, English usage books, books of quotations, and a variety of sources for specialized topics.

2. Cambridge Dictionaries Online includes links to American English dictionaries, French-English and English-French dictionaries, as well as Learners, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs dictionaries.

3. Merriam Webster Online includes a search box for dictionaries and thesauri.

4. Your Dictionary provides a dictionary search as well as an online translator.

5. Dictionary.com includes a dictionary, thesauri, language resources, and an online translator.

6. One Look Dictionary allows you to browse several dictionaries.

7. Thesaurus.com is a link to Roget’s Thesaurus, which also provides links to language resources, dictionary.com, and an online translator.

8. Biographical Dictionary contains references to over 28,000 individuals.

Online Style Manuals:
1. Noodle Tools: an interactive site that will place bibliographical information in proper MLA and APA format.

2. Purdue University provides an online formatting guide and examples of proper MLA style.

3. USM libraries provide an easy to read, but not extremely searchable guide to formatting MLA citations.

4. Capital Community College Library offers a comprehensive list of MLA citations.

5. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides a wonderfully organized and easily searchable guide to MLA citations.

6. The Homepage for APA style.

7. Purdue University’s guide to using APA style.

8. Capital Community College’s guide to writing research papers in APA format.

9. The University of Washington’s writing center is dedicated to psychology and APA format.

10. University of Southern Mississippi’s guide to Turabian style citations.

11. The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s writing lab offers style guides for formatting Chicago/Turabian-style papers.

12. Garbl’s Style and Usage provides link to online style manuals.

13. Strunk and White’s Elements of Style Online.

Grammar Guides:
1. Hyper Grammar is a helpful an easily-searchable site provided by the University of Ottawwa’s Writing Lab.

2. Capital Community College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing is a fun site that allows the viewer to ask grammar question, quiz grammar skills, and browse through indexes. This is a great place to direct students for help.

3. Paul Brian’s Common Errors in English offers a list of “errors in English usage and how to avoid them.”

4. Purdue University’s Handouts offer advice on general writing concerns, punctuation, spelling and capitalization, parts of speech, sentence construction, etc. In any case, this is a great place to have all of you grammar/writing questions answered.

5. Grammar Bytes is a site dedicated to providing grammar quizzes, tips, definitions, and rules.

6. Online Grammar exercises.

7. “WebGrammar is a site devoted to grammar.”

8. Grammar Help offers a lengthy list of grammar help pages and interactive exercises.

9. Garbl’s Grammar Grappler allows you to ask grammar questions and have them answered through email.

10. Ask Oxford, produced by the editors of the OED, answers questions about grammar and usage.

General Writing Concerns:

1. Purdue University handouts on all stages of the writing process, from planning to revising.

2. Bemidji State’s Proofreading guide offers a long list of resources and tips of proofreading your work.

3. The Writing Center of California State, Northridge, provides a reference desk containing strategies for writing timed essays and academic essays, understanding the writing process, and writing about literature.

4. The Cleveland State University Writing Center offers links and tips for the writing process, from invention to proofreading and documentation.

5. Colorado State University’s guide to the writing process.

6. Temple University’s Writing Center provides many handouts on general writing strategies and tips including writing arguments and thesis statements and revising.

Business Writing:
1. The University of Central Florida offers several helpful links about general business writing, resumes, cover letters, letters, and memos.

2. Purdue University provides an extensive list of handouts covering all aspects of business and professional writing.

Writing in the Sciences:
1. The University of Central Florida’s Writing Center provides links for biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering lab reports.

2. Virginia Tech’s site, Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists offers exercises in grammar, punctuation, usage, and style as well as links to other helpful websites.

3. The University of Washington’s Psychology Writing Center provides links to handouts and tips about writing in psychology.

English as a Second Language:
1. Purdue University’s extensive list of handouts for ESL students.

2. Dave’s ESL Café. Links to over 3000 resources for ESL students and teachers.

3. Ohio University ESL provides links specific to Ohio University students, but also general ESL students and teachers.

4. The English Channel is a site dedicated to ESL resources and offers writing, reading, speaking, and grammar activities.

5. This English as a Second Language site provides links to internet resources for ESL students.

6. English Grammar Links for ESL Students contains reference materials, exercises, and quizzes.

7. Selected links for ESL and EFL Students offers an extensive list of helpful ESL links.

Writing about Literature:
1. Dr. James Livingston’s Homepage: Links to, mainly, Shakespeare and Elizabethan sites, but also contains general literature links.

2. Literary Resources on the Net provided by Jack Lynch.

3. Purdue University’s writing about literature site.

4. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s Writing Center offers a lengthy handout on tips for writing about literature.

5. LITWEB, an Online Companion to the Norton Introduction to Literature provides advice on writing about specific genres, approaching a text critically, paraphrasing and quoting the text, and brainstorming and drafting papers.