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A number of writing centers accessible online have links to handouts addressing various writing issues. Follow the links below to access various helpful discussions of writing issues:

Style and Clarity

Strunk & White’s Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
A classic work encouraging sensitivity to bombast or overblown writing and offering strategies for achieving clarity, grace, and simplicity in one’s writing.

Grammar

The St. Martin’s Handbook, 5th Edition

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook/
Diana Hacker’s Rules for Writers 
http://www.dianahacker.com/rules/instructor/dev_clar.html
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/
Agnes Scott Writing Center Handouts 
http://writing_center.agnesscott.edu/handouts.html
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/
Princeton Writing Center Resources
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writing/Writing_Center/WCWritingResources.htm

Documentation, Citation Manuals and Guidelines

Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc
APA (American Psychological Association) Style
http://www.apastyle.org
Chicago Manual of Style
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org
MLA (Modern Language Association) Style
http://www.mla.org/style
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