Writing Skills Links-- From McGraw-Hill

Fundamentals

Links to websites to help one with the fundamentals of adaptation, construction of clear sentences and paragraphs, and effect are limited. Included below are links to both print and electronic reference works as well as links to sites with software and instructions for creating documents.

A selected bibliography http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/course/mflatley/BBC10/writing_sources.htm	A selected bibliography of good sources for basic writing skills in print form.
A.Word.A.Day http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html	A.Word.A.Day is a site that not only presents a word of the day along with its meaning and pronunciation, but it will also send you the word a day if you register for the free service. It's a nice way to build a vocabulary while getting each day off to a good start.
Compound Words http://www.m-w.com/help/faq/compound.htm	This article helps you know how to present compound words.
Roget's Thesaurus http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html	Roget's Thesaurus is an interactive online program. One enters the word needing substitution and the site returns a suggestion with links to other words.
The Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk101.html	The Elements of Style is a classic book written to help writers with language, composition, and form as well as a few other matters.
The real estate B.S. artist detection checklist http://www.johntreed.com/BSchecklist.html	This site interprets in plain English how some in real estate use words to manipulate and deceive readers.
The Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus http://www.wordsmyth.net/	The Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus is a site where you can look up words as well as enjoy a words of the week, word link contest, and other word fun.
Unmapped Exercise http://www.infomap.com/im_timetest/tmresult.htm	This interactive page lets users see and understand the value of mapped information.
2004 List of Banished Words http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php	Since 1976 Lake Superior State University Word Banishment selection committee has compiled its annual list of words banished for misuse, overuse and general uselessness.