
Grammar and Style
The Elements of Style (Strunk, W. Jr.)
The Guardian and Observer Style Guide
Guide to Grammar and Style (Lynch, J.)
Guide to Grammar & Writing (Darling, C.)
The Internet Grammar of English (University College London)
Modern English Grammar (Kies, D.)
Vocabulary and Usage
Affixes: the Building Blocks of English (Quinion, M.)
Cliché Finder — Over 3,300 clichés indexed (Friedman, M.)
Common Errors in English Usage (Brians, P.)
How to Write in Plain English (Plain English Campaign)
The King's English, 2nd Edtion (Fowler, H.W.)
World Wide Words (Quinion, M.)
Linguistics
An Introduction to the Study of Speech (Sapir, E.)
Glossary of Linguistic Terms (SIL International)
The Influence of Phonesthesia on the English Language (Schisler, B.)
Linguist List — International Linguistics Community Online
Linguistics Resources (SIL International)
Reading Skills
CriticalReading.com (Kurland, D.)
DMOZtools.net: Kids and Teens > Reading
Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension (Duke, N. & Pearson, P.)
On the Art of Reading (Quiller-Couch, A.)
Handwriting and Penmanship
Adult Literacy Materials for Reading and Handwriting (Power, T.)
DonnaYoung.org: YoungMinds Free Printable Handwriting Lessons
EnchantedLearning.com: Writing Letters and Numbers
Copy Editing and Proofreading
Copyeditors' Knowledge Database (O'Moore-Klopf, K.)
DMOZtools.net: Writers' Resources > Copy Editing
The Editing and Rewriting Process (Darling, C.)
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Testy Copy Editors (Blanchard, P.)
Creative and Story Writing
AbsoluteWrite.com — Informational website for writers of all levels (Stone, M.)
The Balance Careers: Fiction Writing
DMOZtools.net: Writers' Resources > Fiction
How to Write a Novel in 100 Days (Coyne, J.)
Learner.org: Literature — What Makes a Good Short Story?
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Creative Writing
ThoughtCo.com: Teaching Writing to Beginning ESL Students (Beare, K.)
Essay and Academic Writing
DMOZtools.net: Writers' Resources > Non-Fiction
How to Write Clearly (European Commission)
A Hypertext Writing Guide (Plonsky, M.)
If I were a Carpenter: The Tools of the Writer (Clark, R.P.)
KU Writing Guides (University of Kansas Writing Center)
On the Art of Writing (Quiller-Couch, A.)
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Academic Writing
Research and Citation Resources
The Writer's Handbook (University of Wisconsin Writing Center)
Writer's Web (University of Richmond Writing Center)
Letter Writing
CondolenceLetters.net: Condolence Letter Templates]
EnglishClub.com: Sample Business Letters
Notes and Shorter Letters (Post, E.)
E-mail Composition
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email (Sherwood, K.)
Telephoning
AudioEnglish.org: Telephone English
EnglishClub.com: Telephone English
ThoughtCo.com: Important Phrases for English Telephone Conversations (Beare, K.)
Résumés and Job Interviews
eRésumés and Résumé Writing Services: Resume Topics
Five Tips for Better Resume Writing (Messmer, M.)
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Job Search Writing
Presentations and Public Speaking
EnglishClub.com: Presentations in English
MySpeechClass.com: Public Speaking Speech Topics and Ideas
Proverbs and Quotations
Collections of Quotations at Bartleby.com
DMOZtools.net: Reference > Quotations
Familiar Quotations (Bartlett, J.)
ManyThings.org: Commonly Used Proverbs (Kelly, C. & L.)
The Quotations Page (Moncur, M.)
English Language History
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English — From A.D. 1150-1580 (Mayhew, A. & Skeat, W.)
The Early History of Indo-European Languages (Gamkrelidze, T. & Ivanov, V.)
Ethnologue.com: English — A Language of the United Kingdom
Etymonline.com — Online Etymology Dictionary
The Historical Grammar of the Old English Language (Babaev, C.)
History of the English Language (Duncan, E.)
History of the English Language (University of Toronto)
Omniglot — The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages (Ager, S.)
The Origin and History of the English Language (KryssTal)
English and American Literary History
The American Novel (Van Doren, C.)
A Brief History of English Literature (Moore, A.)