"Grammar for Communicators"
  A handbook on grammar, punctuation and word 
 usage for communication majors. by Tom Clanin
  Rich Text Format version   Adobe Acrobat version

 General References

 Copy Editing Resources

 Interactive grammar lessons

 On-line style books

The difference between the right word and almost-right word is like the difference between a lion's roar and a kitten's mew (with apologies to Mark Twain). Actually, the lion is yawning; it was another lazy day on the Masai Mara in Kenya.

American Copy Editors Society links to several newsroom-related Web sites as well as includes copy editors’ critiques of their own copy desks: http://copydesk.org/

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Encyclopeadia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/

Grammar and Style Notes: www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Grammar/

Infoplease, online dictionary, internet encyclopedia and almanac reference: www.crl.com:80/~jshenry/rig.html

Online Dictionaries: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Statistics Every Writer Should Know: http://www.nilesonline.com/stats

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammarmenu.htm 

Webster’s Revised (1913) Unabridged Dictionary. A little dated ("computer" is defined as "one who computes"), but many words haven’t changed their meanings over time http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html

World Wide Web Virtual Library: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html#USA

WWWebster Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Copy Editors Resoures

Copyediting-l mail list: Style FAQ http://www.rt66.com/~telp/sfindex.htm To subscribe to Copyediting-l: send message to listproc@cornell.edu; in the body of the message write: SUBSCRIBE COPYEDITING-L YOURCOMPTERNAME

Copy Editor is for people who take their words seriously: http://www.copyeditor.com

Copy editors’ group http://www.li.net/~pambo/

Crusty Old Slot Man’s Copy-Editing Peeve Page. http://access.digex.net/~bwalsh/editing.html (bwalsh@access.digex.net)

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Web site includes the group's Stylebook Supplement, which has for  terms relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. http://www.nlgja.org/pubs/style.html

HyperGrammar: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html

Capital Community College in Hartford, Conn.: http://go.to/grammar

Atlanta Journal Constitution Stylebook http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/intranets/ajc/STYLBOOK.HTM

"Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. This is the original 1918 edition. http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Stylebook http://starbulletin.com/sbstyle/index.html

National Public Radio Ethics and Style Guidebook http://www.npr.org/inside/styleguide/stylmain.htm

The Slot style guide http://www.theslot.com/contents.html#start Set up by Washington Post slot editor Bill Walsh.

Wired Style. This style book created by Wired magazine is considered by many as the language arbiter of the Digital Age. http://www.hotwired.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/toc/index.html