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Site & Description Click on the Name below to read a brief description of the site. |
Location Click on the link below to go to the site. |
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| Research and Documentation Online | http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ | 5 |
| A Writer's Reference | http://dianahacker.com/writersref/ | 5 |
| The Grammar Handbook | http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammar_handbook.htm | 5 |
| The Online Grammar Handbook | http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/grammar/ | 5 |
| The Online Writing Center at Purdue | http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/ | 5 |
| http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/ | 5 | |
| 5 | ||
| U of Illinois Online Guide | http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm | 4 |
| Guide to Grammar and Style | http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html | 3 |
| Grammar Slammer |
http://englishplus.com/grammar/
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5 |
The
Write Source: According to The Write Source, they are "a development house of teachers and
writers who specialize in handbooks for students of English and writing at
elementary school, middle school, junior high, and high school levels." The
Write Source provides links to a selection of different handbooks for different
grade levels and writing abilities. Colorful and user-friendly!
Research and
Documentation Online: According to Research and Documentation Online, the
site offers "An extensive
annotated list of specialized sources for more than 25 disciplines. The
resources are organized by type—databases and indexes, Web sites, and reference
texts—under four main categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and
Sciences. Guidelines for documenting print and online sources. These guidelines
provide the most current advice available for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
Sample papers with annotations for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
A
Writer's Reference: by Diana Hacker is one of the most user-friendly sites
providing students with writing, research, and grammar exercises as well as
sample papers and links to various style manuals. Students can log into
the site, complete the exercises, and have the results emailed to their
teachers.
The
Grammar Handbook: This site is sponsored by the Writer's Workshop at the
University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign and contains examples and rules for
basic grammar and parts of speech. The site is easy to navigate, and is
solely focused on grammatical rules and illustrations.
The
Online Grammar Handbook: is filled with helpful links to other sites for
help with the writing process, grammar illustrations and explanations, research,
mechanics, and professional writing. Excellent source for supporting the
writing process, dealing with writer's block, anxiety, and just getting started.
The
Online Writing Center at Purdue offers grammar, spelling, and punctuation
help in addition to serving as an online writing center for students from Purdue
and elsewhere. This site has handouts which can be downloaded or printed
from the site and used in the classroom.
The
Guide to Grammar and Writing:
is a website that is beneficial for teachers and students alike. The scope of
this site ranges from word and sentence level issues to paragraph level issues
to the essay as a whole. It includes grammar helps, dictionaries, other online
resources, and quizzes to help students of all writing levels. The site is very
clever with links for specific categories of grammar.
Researchpaper.com:
is a handbook website from “Infonautics, Macmillan Publishing, and Purdue
University which offers writing and research aids, references, and examples.”
This site
discusses formatting in MLA, APA, and ASA.
University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Online Writing Guide:
is
supported by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This grammar
handbook “explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts
of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common
problems of usage.”
Resources
for Writers and Writing Instructors:
offers links to many diverse style guides. This is a valuable source for
teachers searching for a specific issue to discuss in the classroom. Also
included is a link to a handbook that discusses grading techniques for
instructors.
Guide
to Grammar and Style:
According to Jack Lynch, author of this online handbook, (available in hardback
as well,) the articles discussed include usage, style, and mechanics. Grammar
rules are explained and “subjective suggestions are made for making your writing
clearer.”
Grammar
Slammer: offers
assistance in all grammar problems. Grammar Slammer is a “help file that goes
beyond a grammar checker. Each link not only explains the grammar, but has
explicit examples. This site not only offers grammar help, but has downloads,
and speller slammer as well.
Copyright 2004 Pat Tyrer