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• Avoiding Gender Based Language from the University of Arizona Writing Center (link opens to doc file)

• Avoiding Slang and Cliches from the University of Arizona Writing Center (link opens to doc file)

• Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness from the Purdue OWL

• Historical and Literary Present from The College of Wooster (link opens to doc file)

• The It's vs. Its Page

• A Little Help with Capitals from the Purdue OWL

• Maintaining Objectivity from Capital Community College

• Putting Voice into a Paper by Krysti Sibley from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Recommended Emoticons and Smileys for Email Communication

• Spelling: Accept/Except and Affect/Effect from the Purdue OWL

• Spelling: Common Words that Sound Alike from the Purdue OWL

• Spelling: IE/EI from the Purdue OWL

• Spelling: Noun Plurals from the Purdue OWL

• Spelling: Suffixes -ible vs. able from the Purdue OWL

• Ten Tips for Better Spelling from infoplease

• Tone: a Matter of Attitude from Capital Community College

• Transitions from Hamilton College

• Transitions and Transitional Devices (Connecting Words) from the Purdue OWL

• Usage from Ferris State University

• Using Appropriate Language from the Purdue OWL

• Using Metaphors in Creative Writing from the Purdue OWL

• Verbs -- Past Tense? Present?  Literary and Historical Present by Melanie Dawson and Joe Essid from the Writer's Web at the University of Richmond

• Word Choice from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Writing Center

• WordNet: An Electrical Lexical Database (an online reference database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs)

• Wordsmith.org (Home of A Word a Day, the Internet Anagram Server, and the Word Server)

• Words to Avoid from the University of Arizona Writing Center (link opens to doc file)

• World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language

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