Resources

TekEDIT ^TM suggests a number of resources to help you with your writing projects when you can't consult a style guide or hire an editor.

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Grammar Hotlines

Northeastern University Grammar Hotline (Boston):
Telephone: (617) 373-4540
Approximate Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm, (Eastern Time, (September to May)
Purdue University Grammar Hotline
Telephone: (765) 494-3723
Fax: (765) 494-3780
Schedule: Monday-Thursday, 9am-4 or 6pm; Friday, 9am-1pm (Eastern Time)
E-Mail: owl@cc.purdue.edu
(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/)
The Writing Center @ Virginia Tech:
An e-mail-based and phone-based grammar tip hotline (Gram) and self-help environment.
(https://lib.vt.edu/spaces/writing-center.html)

Arizona State University Libraries Style Manuals:
An annotated list of widely-used style manuals.
(http://www.asu.edu/lib/noble/library/style.htm)
COPYEDITING-L Archives at Indiana University:
Searchable discussions by editors about grammar and language usage (requires registration).
(https://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/copyediting-l.html)
Guide to Grammar & Style:
A miscellany of grammatical rules, explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University.
(http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/)
Guide to Grammar & Writing:
With interactive sentence diagramming in PowerPoint, and many illustrations, maintained by Charles Darling, Professor of English, Capital Community College, Hartford, CT.
(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/)
MIT Libraries Style/Usage Manuals:
Links to guides for writing and research, including English grammars, style manuals, and research guides.
(http://libraries.mit.edu/help/writing.html)
Online Technical Writing:
Common grammar, usage, and spelling problems in technical documentation, from David A. McMurrey, Austin Community College, Austin, TX.
(http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/gramov.html)
Online Writing Lab (OWL):
English as a Second Language (ESL) resources, handouts, and exercises, from Purdue University.
(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/)
Webgrammar:
Grammar tips, writing resources, and an extensive site search function.
(www.webgrammar.com)

Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences:
A database gathered by The Mulford Library of the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo containing links to Web sites providing instructions to authors for more than 3000 journals in the health sciences.
(www.meduohio.edu)
National Institutes of Health: Online Journals:
An index of online medical and scientific journals.
(www.nih.gov)
Science Reference Services:
A catalog of government and technology web sites.
(www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/)
Answers Encyclopedia:
A list of government science and technology resources from the Answers Encyclopedia.
(http://answers.encyclopedia.com/)
Specialty Dictionaries in English:
Dictionaries and glossaries of specialized words in over 100 categories.
(www.yourdictionary.com)


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