English Writing Resources

There are many resources online to help you with your writing. The following list is only a sampling, but we will keep adding to it.

Reference Works

• Oxford English Dictionary OED Online at the University of Ottawa
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary Online language center 
• Roget's Thesaurus at the University of Chicago.
• Strunk's Elements of Style at Columbia University.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations at Columbia University.
• List your electronic sources in MLA style
• MLA Citation Style 7th Edition , RDC library
• APA Citation Style 6th Edition, RDC library 

Textbooks and Workbooks

• The HyperGrammar at the University of Ottawa.
• The Hypertext Writer's Guide at the University of Victoria.
• An Online English Grammar Reference from EduFind.
• The Writers' Workshop On-Line Handbook at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (gopher interface).
• Handouts on writing from the the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University .
• Grammar and Style Notes from Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania.

Writing Centres

• The Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa.
• The Writing Centre at Wilfred Laurier University (text file).
• The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.
• The Trinity College Writing Center Online at Trinity College (Connecticut).
• The Online Writing Lab at Dakota State University.
• The Center for Talented Youth at The John Hopkins University.
• The Writing Center at the University of Delaware (gopher display).
• The Writing Labs at Iowa State University.
• The OnLine Writery at the University of Missouri.
• The RPI Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• The Sweetland Writing Center University of Michigan.

Scholarly Resources

• University of Ottawa Databases (A-Z)

Literary Resources

• Arts:Humanities:Literature at Yahoo!
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare