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50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire them. Only with experience, you can enter the realm of effective, always-in-demand writers.
Of course, effective writing requires a good command of the language in which you write or want to write. Once you have that command, you need to learn some tips and tricks so that you can have an edge over others in this hard-to-succeed world of writers. There are some gifted writers, granted. But gifted writers also need to polish their skills frequently in order to stay ahead of competition and earn their livelihood.
We collected over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. You will find copywriting blogs, dictionaries, references, teaching classes, articles, tools as well as related articles from other blogs. Something is missing? Please let us know in the comments to this post!
[Offtopic: by the way, do you know the Smashing Network has its own Smashing Network RSS Feed? Only excerpts are displayed in the feed.]
1. Grammar, Punctuation & Co.
Ultimate Style: The Rules Of Writing
The web’s ultimate guide to grammar provides a database of topics and an easy-to-search A-Z list of common questions (via)
Use English Punctuation Correctly
A quick and useful crash course in English punctuation.
HyperGrammar
An extensive electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa’s Writing Centre.
Grammar Girl
Mignon Fogarty’s quick and dirty tips for better writing. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules.
Better Writing Skills
This site contains 26 short articles with writing tips about ampersands, punctuation, character spacing, apostrophes, semicolons and commas, difference between i.e. and e.g. etc.
The Guide to Grammar and Writing
An older, yet very useful site that will help you to improve your writing on word & sentence level, paragraph level and also essay & research paper level.
Writer’s Block
A compact resource with over 20 articles that cover abbreviations, capitalization, numbers, punctuation, word usage and writing styles.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This site contains some useful articles that explain common grammar mistakes, basic punctuation, basic sentence concepts etc. Worth visiting and reading. The Learning Centre contains similar articles, but with more examples.
Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style
These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage put by Jack Lynch, an Associate Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, for his classes.
English Style Guide
This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist. The site contains various hints on how to use metaphors, punctuation, figures, hyphens etc. Brief and precise.
Technical Writing
An extensive guidance on grammar and style for technical writing.
40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
“Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.”
2. Common mistakes and problems
Common Errors in English
A collection of common errors in English, with detailed explanations and descriptions of each error.
AskOxford: Better Writing
A very useful reference for classic errors and helpful hints with a terrible site navigation.
Dr. Grammar’s Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common grammar questions related to English grammar, with examples and additional explanations.
English Grammar FAQ
A list of common English language problems and how to solve them. This list was compiled through an extensive archive of postings to alt.usage.english by John Lawler, Linguistics, U. Michigan, Ann Arbor.
3. General Writing Skills
Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest offers information on writing better and getting published. The site also includes community forums, blogs and huge lists of resources for writers (via)
Infoplease: General Writing Skills
Various articles that aim to teach students how to write better.
The Elements of Style
A freely available online version of the book “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk, Jr., the classic reference book.
Poynter Writing Tools
A blog dedicated to writers and journalists. Poynter also provides Fifty Writing Tools: Quick List, a collection of podcasts related to writing.
learning lab / writing skills
This site offers over 20 .pdf-documents with main rules and common mistakes related to summarising, paraphrasing, referencing, sentences, paragraphs, linking words and business writing. Handy.
Using English
UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.
Online Writing Courses
Free courses are a great way to improve your writing skills. The courses shown here focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing.
4. Practical Guides To Better Writing Skills
Copywriting 101: An Introduction to Copywriting
This tutorial is designed to get you up and running with the basics of writing great copy in ten easy lessons. Afterwards, you’ll get recommendations for professional copywriting training, plus links to tutorials on SEO copywriting and writing killer headlines.
A Guide to Writing Well
“This guide was mainly distilled from On Writing Well by William Zinsser and The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Other sources are listed in the bibliography. My memory being stubborn and lazy, I compiled this so I could easily refresh myself on writing well. I hope it will also be helpful to others.”
Online Copywriting 101: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet
The ultimate cheat sheet with various Web copy resources that copywriters can use to lean the best writing tips and ideas. More copywriting cheat sheets.
Headlines and Trigger Words
- 50 Trigger Words and Phrases for Powerful Multimedia Content
- 21 Traffic Triggers for Social Media Marketing
- How To Write Magnetic Headlines (and even more headlines)
- Passive Voice Is Redeemed For Web Headings
- 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang
- Landing Page Tutorials and Case Studies
- Copywriting for e-Commerce
Common mistakes and errors
- 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Website Copy
- Six Common Punctuation Errors that Bedevil Bloggers
Writing tips from experts
- 10 Writing Tips from the Masters
- George Orwell’s tips on better writing
- Stephen King’s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer
- Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well
- Writing hacks (hacks for writing) by Scott Berkun
Practical tips
- What Is Good Content?
- 10 Steps Toward Better Writing
- A Guide To Becoming A Better Writer: 15 Practical Tips
- 10 simple things you can do to improve your writing
- 7 Can’t-Miss Ways To Kick-Start The Writing Habit
- 10 Writing Tips for Web Designers
- Activate Your Verbs
- How to Write Faster, Better, and Easier
- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing
- How to Write Persuasive Links
- A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer: 15 Practical Tips
- 21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content
5. Copywriting Blogs
CopyBlogger
Now that blogging has become the smartest strategy for growing an authoritative web site, it’s your copywriting skills that will set you apart and help you succeed. And this is where Copyblogger comes into play. Brian Clark’s popular blog covers useful copywriting tips, guidelines and ideas.
Write to Done
Leo Babuta’s blog about the craft and the art of writing. The blog covers many topics: journalism, blog writing, freelance writing, fiction, non-fiction, getting a book deal, the business of writing, the habit of writing. Updated twice weekly.
Problogger
Darren Rowse’s blog helps bloggers to add income streams to their blogs – among other things, Darren also has hundreds of useful articles related to copy writing.
Men with Pens
A regularly updated blog with useful tips for writers, freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Time to Write
Jurgen Wolff’s tips, ideas, inspirations for writers and would-be writers and other creative people.
Daily Writing Posts
“Whether you are an attorney, manager, student or blogger, writing skills are essential for your success. Considering the rise of the information age, they are even more important, as people are surrounded by e-mails, wikis, social networks and so on.
“It can be difficult to hone one’s writing skills within this fast paced environment. Daily Writing Tips is a blog where you will find simple yet effective tips to improve your writing.”
CopyWriting
“Copywriting website is jam-packed with useful information, articles, resources and services geared to show you how to write mouth-watering, profit-generating copy. Copy that changes minds and dramatically boosts your results. So come right in… you’re going to like what you see! It has copywriting courses, tools, articles and much more.”
Dumb Little Man: Writing
Jay White provides a handful of tips that may increase your productivity and improve your skills. You’ll find many tips and ideas for better writing in his archive category “Writing”.
The Copywriter Underground
A copywriting blog by the freelance writer Tom Chandler.
Lifehack: Writing
This collection of resources includes links to 30 posts on Lifehack that may help you to improve your writing skills.
6. Tools
OneLook Dictionary Search
More than 13,5 million words in more than 1024 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook search engine. You can find, define, and translate words all at one site.
Definr
A fast, suggest-as-you-type dictionary which you can add to your Firefox search box or use in bookmarklet form (see this post) (via Lifehacker).
Visuwords
Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Merriam Webster: Visual Dictionary
The Visual Dictionary Online is an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach. From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. What’s more, the Visual Dictionary Online helps you learn English in a visual and accessible way.
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.
Online Spell Checker
Free online spell checker that provides you with quick and accurate results for texts in 28 languages (German, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese etc.). An alternative tool: Spelljax.
GNU Aspell
GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language.
WordWeb
A one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include definitions and synonyms, proper nouns, 150 000 root words and 120 000 synonym sets.
write rhymes
As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it.
Verbix
This English conjugator will help you to determine how to use verbs in the proper tense.
Wordcounter
Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use this to see what words you overuse or maybe just to find some keywords from a document. Text Statistics Generator is an alternative tool: it gives you a quick analysis of number of word occurrences.
Advanced Text Analyzer (requires registration)
This free tool analyzes texts, calculating the number of words, lexical density, words per sentence, character per word and the readability of the text as well as word analysis, phrase analysis and graded analysis. Useful! Alternative tool.
Graviax Grammar Checker
Grammar rules (XML files containing regular expressions) and grammar checker. Currently only for the English language, although it could be extended. Unit tests are built into the rules. Might form the basis of a grammar checker for OpenOffice.
txt2tags
Txt2tags is a document generator. It reads a text file with minimal markup as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the formats HTML, LaTeX, MediaWiki, Google Code Wiki, DokuWiki, Plain text and more.
Markdown
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Requires Perl 5.6.0 or later.
7. Further Resources
50 Useful Open Source Resources For Writers and Writing Majors
And if you’re a writing major, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work? Here’s a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better.
English Forums
If you have a question related to English Grammar, join these forums to get advice from others who know the language better or can provide you with some related information.
The Ultimate Writing Productivity Resource
A round-up of applications, services, resources, tools, posts and communities for writers and bloggers who want to improve their writing skills.
100 Useful Web Tools for Writers
100 useful Web tools that will help you with your career, your sanity and your creativity whenever your write. More useful round-ups.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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June 28th, 2009 8:13 amThank you! Good work!
- 3June 28th, 2009 8:16 am
Cool, Informative but Bore post.. :D
- 4June 28th, 2009 8:16 am
Man this one is choc full of info. It’s going to take a while to fully digest it all.
- 5June 28th, 2009 8:17 am
very useful for those of us who are not native english speakers
- 6June 28th, 2009 8:25 am
Wordweb is the best one for me…its so easy to use..
nice post! - 7June 28th, 2009 8:31 am
Very good compilation about web writing and writing in general!
- 8June 28th, 2009 8:47 am
Nice resources…. i also use Wordweb for my personal checks.
Dkumar M.
@instantshift.com - 9June 28th, 2009 9:20 am
Very nice guys, I would come again to read it more and more .
- 10June 28th, 2009 9:58 am
brilliant, I do need to work my english a bit more :P
- 11June 28th, 2009 10:06 am
This is fantastic, thanks for this post. Does anyone know of a writing course/lessons that is specific to writing online?
-Thanks again - 12June 28th, 2009 12:39 pm
This really is an amazing post. Just launched my blog today and will find so many of these articles useful. Thanks Smashing Mag.
- 13June 28th, 2009 12:43 pm
Thank you for addressing the most lacking skill on the Web today. This is a great collection of resources. However, it’s important to acknowledge that all the resources in the world mean nothing unless people are MOTIVATED to use them. If you are motivated, good for you! If you’re a motivated non-native English speaker, I salute you!
If you’re part of the non-motivated lower-case generation, here’s a news flash. Once you have a blog or website, that makes you a journalist. As a journalist, if you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” or “its” and “it’s,” either get busy and learn or hire a real writer to edit your copy! I can hear it now: “whoa dude, r u saying i shud like hire a writer? like pay money??” Well, look at it this way. If you are willing to put out crap on your site or your blog (or just as bad, if you don’t even know it’s crap), how are you any different from the company that designs its own junky logo because it doesn’t know any better or is too cheap to pay a professional?
- 14June 28th, 2009 1:03 pm
Great collection.
Does anyone know how to get some cool list for German-Writing?Thanks! :-)
- 15June 28th, 2009 1:09 pm
Fabulous post! This one is getting bookmarked, as I know that I will be coming back to it again and again. Not enough just for one read. You did a great job of compiling all this information for us. Thank you.
- 16June 28th, 2009 1:35 pm
Awesome post & great resources! You left off Fuel Your Writing, an invaluable resource! http://fuelyourwriting.com
Cheers! :) - 17June 28th, 2009 1:48 pm
This is an excellent list – web designers and developers, nowadays, have to be able to write good copy. This is also useful – I feel like I end up writing reports, proposals, and documentation a lot more than in the past.
- 18June 28th, 2009 2:48 pm
I couldn’t even guess at how much time this post will save me! I will definitely pass it on to the readers and mailing list members of my site for newbies, too.
- 19June 28th, 2009 6:13 pm
Wow… what an amazing resource. Way more info than i ever got in skool, hahaha :)
- 20June 28th, 2009 6:41 pm
Wow, exactly what I need right now.
- 21June 28th, 2009 6:59 pm
I was looking for new wordpress themes and stumbled upon this site and thought I would share my personal site–unenlightenedenglish.com.
It’s a mix of Grammar Girl, with academic advice, business writing, personal writing, etc. I launched it April 1st, so it doesn’t have the notoriety that several of these sites have, but I hope to get it up there! Thanks ahead of time!
- 22June 28th, 2009 8:48 pm
Great post ! I was looking for this !!!
- 23June 28th, 2009 9:04 pm
I’m waiting for the guy who all ways shows up in the comments of posts like this and says something like: “This is a waste of time evry designer nows dat content dont even matter!!! its the design, of the site thAt matter… lame!”
haha! Great post by the way!
- 24June 28th, 2009 10:24 pm
You left out WhiteSmoke, probably the most popular writing software.
- 25June 28th, 2009 10:29 pm
great! thank you…
- 26June 28th, 2009 11:06 pm
Wow!! What a smashing post….well I am a writer and was searching for these tools and resources. Thank you so much for this. You made my day Smashing Mag!
I can add the following links
- 27June 28th, 2009 11:06 pm
Thanks a lot for all your efforts in publishing this article!!
Cheers!
R.K :) - 28June 28th, 2009 11:33 pm
Someone asked about “writing online courses”? wtf? writing is writing !! Take a notebook, a pen, and start to write.
You NEVER learn to write reading “How To’s”. You must dedicate a lot of hours each day, read real books of real writers and, of course, be creative and self-critic. How could you learn to be creative or self-critic? It’s a pity, but if you are, you are. If not … :/ you aren’t. Creativity, and self-critic, can be trained, but it can’t be learned. Not creative people will be angry with this, but …
John G: “It’s going to take a while to fully digest it all” … A while? years! Did you go to school? Your words looks like an automatic comment, as many other like “good post”, “thanks for share” or “great” …
Thanks for your effort, Smashing Magazine. But as a experienced teacher, I’m sure that replacing the school tasks with recipes is a very big error. Talk about tools (software) to write would be appreciated by someone who likes to install all the stuff they read about, but that other stuff … I’m also sure that the real problem of the actual web is that everybody speak about everything, even if they haven’t any experience on it, trying to replace the logical path of learning and knowledge. Despite of the people comments I KNOW they won’t read about grammar more that 10 minutes (or 10 seconds) because they only look for tricks, recipes and the way of do things easy and fast. All those people who are really interested on writing will only read this post, and after that, they will try to forget, because they KNOW where to clear up their doubts.
Greetings.
- 29June 28th, 2009 11:41 pm
Thanks for such an awesome, consolidated resource! Not something I expected to find on Smashing Magazine, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless. I will definitely be making use of at least a few of these links.
@u-named
Maybe you should spend a little time reading through some of these resources; might help your grammar, spelling, etc. out a little bit. - 30June 28th, 2009 11:45 pm
Thanks for the great resources. Quite helpful!
-Mahesh.
- 31June 29th, 2009 12:16 am
I am missing the Firefox dictionaries.
- 32June 29th, 2009 12:32 am
@#13 David, “you speak my mind.”
- 33June 29th, 2009 1:25 am
A good resource, but it is sad that most grown adults need to be taught elementary grammar and punctuation skills. Parents and teachers are obviously not doing their job well enough for articles like this to be published.
- 34June 29th, 2009 1:57 am
Matt (#28): I only speak about some paragraphs/links of the post and about some comments. I said “Talk about tools (software) to write would be appreciated …” And I repeat the same if somebody think that something different than a pen and a notebook is better for writing. I see only a few low level dictionaries (maybe for lazy people) and tons of links about tips, hints, tricks and hacks. Obviously, SM gives what people wants (and I said thanks to them in my last paragraph).
Of course, I always visit a great part of the sites listed before I write. But learning about how to write SMS texts isn’t very healthy for the language; “hacks for writing” sounds pathetic (does Hemingway, Unamuno, Victor Hugo or Pessoa use it? I think there must be mucho more than 5 or 10 trivial tips). Don’t you think so?
I’m not angry with SM. Oh, my God! They publish good stuff and I encourage to stay here. I critizice the “always easy” way of thinking, the quick (but false) tricks to do complex tasks (as writing) and the shortest (and deceitful) solutions that people use to require. All of this is MY own opinion and excuse me if somebody is upset with it.
Thanks.
- 35June 29th, 2009 2:01 am
David (#13), as ArcherTC wrote, “you speak my mind”.
- 36June 29th, 2009 2:23 am
{{{T H A N K S!!!!}}} …. superb resource….
- 37June 29th, 2009 2:55 am
Wow!! Loads of resources. Everyone who wants to write, especially bloggers, should bookmark this post. I think I would be coming back to this post in the next five years. :) Thanks for this useful compilation.
- 38June 29th, 2009 2:59 am
Readers may find my blog, Bad Language useful. I’m a professional writer working for HP, Microsoft, eBay and others. I’ve been writing about this kind of stuff since 2006. In particular, there are two recent posts which complement this article nicely:
1. Useful links about writing plain English.
2. Two free tools I have developed – a readability metrics tool and a concentration timer.Cheers, Matthew
- 39June 29th, 2009 3:20 am
Excellent, I will take all the help I can get!
- 40June 29th, 2009 4:13 am
Thanks for these, I have to do a fair amount of writing in my job. These will come in very handy, cheers!
- 41June 29th, 2009 4:40 am
Good! This post is a real Smashing one, really useful and not repetitive.
- 42June 29th, 2009 5:07 am
Great list of resources . . . for some elements of writing. Really, writing is so much more than grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style. What makes writing good is also determined by the context. There are several good websites for university writing centers that also focus on the rhetorical features of particular genres/academic areas — which are equally important, if not more so. Thx.
- 43June 29th, 2009 5:15 am
Let me add visualthesaurus.com to the mix. It does what it says — gives you a visual cloud of synonyms you can navigate much more intuitively than a regular thesaurus.
It’s a pay service, but you get several searches for free before it demands your login. And all you have to do then is just close the window and return to the site for more free searches.
- 44June 29th, 2009 5:33 am
Another great language/writing resource is Language and Grammar…worth checking out, especially if you have a witty sense of humor.
- 45June 29th, 2009 5:38 am
Halt doch einfach mal dein Maul! Ich will es nicht mehr hören, hast du verstanden? Ich will es einfach nicht mehr hören. Sei still und lass’ mich in Ruhe!! Lass’ mich einfach nur allein’.
- 46June 29th, 2009 5:49 am
awsome
- 47June 29th, 2009 6:02 am
Really interesting stuff and obvioulsy come back to this very often
- 48June 29th, 2009 10:40 am
Does anyone know what backend englishforums.com is using?
- 49June 29th, 2009 10:48 am
Any plugins for outlook that check for right spelling but wrong word used?
- 50June 29th, 2009 10:58 am
This is one of the best blog posts I have ever read. I am a Technical Writer and always appreciate good tools I can use to better my documents. Many thanks, many thanks.
- 51June 29th, 2009 11:11 am
Fantastic article! Writing has become a more and more important skill as we spend more time interacting with others via the internet. It is imperative that our communication skills are impeccable. Similarly, we find ourselves doing more collaborative writing than ever before. A great tool for this ever-present task is Office Live Workspace by Microsoft. It offers users the ability to create, save, access, and share documents and files online for free (You get 5GB of free storage!). There is even a plug-in for MS Office that lets you save your files to your online Workspace directly from whichever Office program you are using. Not only can saving things in the cloud help the bottom line, but it can encourage excellence in writing!
Cheers,
Kate
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team
http://www.workspace.officelive.com
http://www.facebook.com/officelive - 52
- 53June 29th, 2009 5:06 pm
Awesome post!
- 54June 29th, 2009 10:25 pm
I’m humbled… thanks for linking to Copywriting.com – You guys rock! =)
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- 56June 30th, 2009 2:46 am
A veritable cornucopia of assistive composition utilities…
Thanks
- 57June 30th, 2009 2:51 am
Thank you for compiling this awesome resource! As I read, I kept right clicking on links to open up a new browser and will now go back and read! I hope my system doesn’t crash before I can get through them all! Thanks again!
- 58June 30th, 2009 8:28 am
Awesome list. I agree with some of the comments that people generally don’t need to be taught how to write but some of them need to be taught how to write properly.
I wanted to recommend a book that helped me in school. “The Mac Is Not A Typewriter” by Robin Williams (not Mrs. Doubtfire Robin Williams) was a great resource in teaching how to use punctuation and proper typesetting. Good luck to you all.
There are other “…Not A Typewriter” books by Williams but this is the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/Mac-not-typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0201782634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246379235&sr=8-1 - 59June 30th, 2009 10:30 am
This is a great post! I found many resources here that I can I use everyday.
When you are writing everyday or looking to start writing, these resources should be part of your reference library.
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- 61July 1st, 2009 2:33 am
I’m a foreigner student so I need to study English.
I like the ideas to learn English that I could work in many countries.
Thank for this useful list - 62July 1st, 2009 6:00 am
Excellent collection! Thx 4 sharing.
- 63July 1st, 2009 10:59 am
This is a great list.
I might also suggest a light-hearted blog post about the proper number of spaces to use after the end of a sentence?
How many spaces after a period? One or two?
Ron
- 64July 2nd, 2009 3:07 am
I like the irony of poor grammar in a blog post related to writing skills.
- 65July 5th, 2009 12:16 pm
This comes under the heading of extremely useful! I took a bit of a detour and spent a big chunk of time here. I followed some links, but had to bookmark the article so I could come back later. You know, when I had more… time!
- 66July 6th, 2009 3:47 am
Decent post for noobs, although obviously not written by a professional writer.
- 67July 7th, 2009 9:30 am
The more people are out there writing and blogging, the more we see how far from true literacy we as a culture are. Thank you for helping promote the literacy that allows us all to communicate clearly in this amazing era of the nearly-universal written word.
Victoria
- 68July 25th, 2009 9:36 am
Excellent resources; must for all – student, teacher, employer and employee alike. The viewers are really fortunate to have such an ocean of knowledge.
- 69August 11th, 2009 9:41 pm
Very comprehensive. Consider it bookmarked.
- 70August 16th, 2009 4:38 am
This is a great list. This covers so many aspects of writing! I recommend adding the new site, Writers Community. Several authors have come together to publish tips and ideas on how to write better. It is well worth checking out!
- 71August 21st, 2009 2:35 am
A treasure find containing wonderful tips for those aspiriing to write good articles. Great.
- 72October 14th, 2009 9:48 am
this is what i was lookin for. but unfortunatly non of these are appling in our education system
- 73October 30th, 2009 8:22 am
An out of school mastery of writing skills reference.
- 74December 9th, 2009 7:10 pm
Excellent article. Thoroughly enjoyed all the resources. Thank you.
- 75January 26th, 2010 5:29 pm
Excellent article, I’m looking for source of such information for several days, thanks….
- 76January 30th, 2010 2:26 am
Great Work ! Thanks …
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