A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Long words, beautiful words, misspelled words and other odditites. By Jeff Miller of Gulf High School, New Port Ritchey, Fla.

A+ Research and Writing Links
For students, from the Internet Public Library.

AJR writing aids
A few links to sites with tools for writing and editing, from American Journalism Review magazine.

American Slanguages
From Denver to Dublin, pick a city and learn the local lingo.

APA Reference Style
Tightening up your citations. Comprehensive.

Cliché Finder
This might or might not be a good thing.

Columbia Journalism Review Language Corner
By Evan Jenkins, consulting editor of Columbia Journalism Review. Some offenses are obviously more heinous than others, but most are things frequently done wrong that are worth doing right. The outlets where they have appeared will remain anonymous, because the point of the exercise is not to say "Gotcha!" The point (to put it modestly) is to help make the world a better-written place.

Computer Currents Online Dictionary
What is a magneto-optical disk? Here's a searchable computer dictionary, also with browsable lists of HTML tags, emoticons, file types and Internet domain suffixes.

Familiar Quotations (John Bartlett, 1901)
The original, one of many great books online at Bartleby.

Gerald Grow's home page
Resources for teachers, especially journalism educators and other teachers of writing. Links to sites on improvement and evaluation of teaching.

Human Languages Page
Directs you to linguistic resources, dictionaries and language lessons. Site is also searchable.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
Advice on Web design from a leading consultant and author on usability. Check out the archive of favorite articles.

Journalist's Primer
A new interactive training tool on CD-ROM for journalism students and professionals who need a refresher on the rules of grammar, punctuation and style. Includes an hour-long review/exam. Cost is $79 per newsroom. A project of the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation. See the demo.

Mailing Lists for Writers
Mostly for writers of literature.

National Conference of Editorial Writers
Contests, fellowships, discussion, and H.L. Mencken's advice for editorial writers when he addressed the first convention, "Don't let him sit in the office and become a professor."

National Society of Newspaper Columnists
Contests, Hall of Fame, and Ernie Pyle. Also, scholarships, discussion and moral support.

News Watch style guide
A word watching guide for terms about racial and ethnic minorities. From the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism of the San Francisco State University Journalism Department.

On-Line English Grammar
Is it "less than" or "fewer than"?

Oxford English Dictionary
The greatest dictionary in any language is now on the Web, but at a price: $550 for an individual subscription, $750 for an institution. But the word of the day is free. And institutions can sign up for a 30-day free trial. Each entry gives a thorough history of the word's meanings.

Quotation Search
Start with a word, find a quote in famous collections or in Dave Barry columns, or Deep Thoughts...

Teaching Writing
Links to guides for classroom teachers.

The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr., 1918)
The classic. You must know the rules to break them.

The King's English (H.G. Fowler, 1908)
A classic.

University Writing Centers
Writers' groups, resources, local courses.

Word Choice from American Heritage
Is it "compare with" or "compare to"? "Continual" or "continuous"? Here are the opinions of the American Heritage language panel.

Word Counter
Analyze speeches, corporate documents or a news article. This tool counts the frequency of words in a document.

WordSmyth
"The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus," with more than 50,000 words defined. Links to synonyms.

Worldwide Freelance Writer
Writer's guidelines for freelance writing in many countries, as well as advice, writing software, etc.

Writers Guild of America
Represents writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries. Offers script registration and other services, and an online mentor service and FAQ on screenwriting.

Writers' Associations
Communities of writers.

Writing Courses and Workshops
Online, offline and distance learning courses listed. By Debbie Ridpath Ohi.