Grammar Links
After wading through hundreds of websites related to writing, I’ve chosen my top 6. I’ve divided the websites into two categories: 1) Useful websites for students; and 2) useful and/or interesting websites for instructors.
For Students
- OWL: Handouts: Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
The OWL at Purdue offers online writing, research, and MLA and APA style advice. This part of the site covers grammar, spelling, and punctuation with handouts and exercises in printer-friendly HTML and Adobe PDF formats. Interactive PowerPoint presentations are available on a variety of topics.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
Organized in an index-style format, this website is useful for students who have some familiarity with the terminology related to grammar, punctuation, and writing. If, for instance, an instructor has identified that a student has problems with fragments, then the student can click on the link to fragments from the index homepage. Over 150 interactive quizzes are available to help students test their comprehension.
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Paradigm is an online writer’s guide and handbook, interactive and distributed freely over the Internet. Useful for all levels of writers, this website helps students understand the process of writing.
- Literacy Online Education: Handouts
LEO provides online handouts about a variety of topics but does not offer online tutoring. Personally, I think this is the best online resource for students. The simple and straightforward format allows students to scroll down a list of jargon-free headings/links, such as
"I want to improve the way my writing sounds."
This link, which takes them to thirteen other links related to sentence structure, does not require a student to know that"style"
is the issue with which they need help.
For Instructors
- The Writer’s Block
The Writer’s Block links to more than 80 reviewed web sites on grammar, style manuals, dictionaries, thesauri, and other online reference works, online writing labs, and other interesting sites dealing with words and writing. A word of caution: the sheer volume of information here may send your head spinning.
- Elements of Style: Rules of Usage & Composition
Link to the online source of Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, the classic definitive guide to style in composition.