Stuart Barbier, Ph.D. Favorite and Helpful Links

General List of Online Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Jack Lynch’s listings
• 150 Resources to Help You Write Better, Faster, and More Persuasively

Online Writing Labs (OWLS)

An institution's OWL is designed to offer writing assistance, including individual consulting, to the institution's students. However, they often contain helpful information (reference, grammar, guides to writing certain types of papers, etc.) to whoever visits them, including links to other sources of help.

• Delta College
• Purdue University
• University of Wisconsin

Online Libraries

• Library of Congress
• Delta College Library:  public focus or student focus
• HathiTrust’s Digital Library
• Internet Archive’s Digital Library

Research/Reference Tools

• Delta College Library research tools
• Purdue University OWL research help
• Oxford Dictionaries
• Webster's Dictionary
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Dictionary.com
• Glossary of rhetorical terms with examples
• A list of resources related to the Rhetoric/Poetic split
• Google’s translation website

Guides to Grammar and Style

• Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style
• Strunk's Elements of Style
• Purdue University OWL
• Students looking for a good grammar instruction book beyond a handbook might consider The Great Grammar Book: Mastering Grammar Usage and the Essentials of Composition, 2^nd edition, by Marsha Sramek (Asheville: Arch Press, 2015; ISBN: 978-0-9841157-2-3). It provides exercises for practice and their answers. There is also a four-part TedEd Lesson series on punctuation that is helpful. Last, the Purdue Online Writing Lab has great online resources for improving grammar (grammar practice exercises) and punctuation (punctuation practice exercises).

Guides to Citation Styles

• Delta College Library’s Resources: MLA, APA, AMA
• Purdue University OWL Research and Citation Resources
• University of Wisconsin—Madison Citation Resources (includes Chicago, CSE, APSA, IEEE, and numbered references)

Miscellaneous

• How to tackle writer's block
• University of Calgary English Department's writing resources
• Newpages.com (a “news, information, and guides to literary magazines, independent publishers, creative writing programs, alternative periodicals, indie bookstores, writing contests, and more”)
• Views of my former garden
• Views of my current garden (via the Smithsonian Institution’s Achieves of American Gardens).

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