Subscription-based site for vocabulary development, showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words.
Concise guide to some of the most frequently violated rules of writing, punctuation, and grammar.
Portal for word lovers. Learn about word meanings, slang, quotations, insults, and famous authors. Wordwizard offers a round trip across the English language.
For use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
Michael Butzgy's style guide for multimedia.
Special tool word-searches 3,300 cliches.
List of 2000 English cliches with some statistical and literary notes on their use.
Help in discovering, organizing, revising, and editing informal, thesis, argumentative, and exploratory essays.
The University of Minnesota offers a number of Internet correspondence courses in rhetoric. Sign up here.
From alliteration to zeugma, and everything in between, all the figures of speech are here.
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