#23899
This manual mostly follows Associated Press style but also follows advice of other excellent books on writing and Web sites listed in Garbl's Writing Resources Online -- and my selection and interpretation of their guidelines. This guide focuses on U.S. standards for spelling, punctuation, definitions, usage, style and grammar.
#23963
GNOME Documentation Style Guide
The GNOME Documentation Style Guide provides guidelines for authors who want to contribute to the GNOME Documentation Project.
GNOME (2004). Reference>Style Guides>Documentation>Linux
#10615
Going to Bat Against the Dictionary
The T-shirt, commonly misspelled 'tee shirt,' is so named because it resembles the letter T when spread out. Tee ball, commonly misspelled 'T-ball,' is so named because a ball is hit off a tee. Is that so difficult? Apparently it is. Unanimously, as far as I can tell, dictionaries favor the non-informative T-ball. Some of those dictionaries don't even recognize tee ball as an alternate spelling. Some very smart people think I'm out of my mind for having such strong feelings in favor of the tee- version.
Slot, The (2001). Reference>Style Guides
#13404
The Good Grammar, Good Style™ Pages
Do you have a question about style, grammar, or mechanics? Find the answer to your questions in the Good Grammar, Good Style Archive — over 100 pages of useful articles and frequently asked questions!
Factotum Ink, Limited (2002). Reference>Style Guides>Grammar
#10655
A website about English grammar for students.
Verkouteren, J. Adrian. St. Albans School (1998). Reference>Style Guides>Grammar
#11851
Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation
A guide on punctuation, capitals, spelling, sentence construction and parts of speech.
#25798
This site is dedicated to answering grammar, composition, or formatting questions.
#18852
A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
The formatting of citations recommended in this guide is based on Modern Language Association recommendations. This guide may suffice for most students' needs for most academic purposes, but for advanced research projects it is by no means a substitute for the Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Fifth Edition (1999). That handbook can be purchased in most bookstores and copies should be available in every college and municipal library. A Guide similar to this one, but based on the APA style, is also available online (see link on the navigation bar). Your best source of advice on all these matters is, of course, your instructor and library professionals.
#21628
Guide to Citation Style Guides
An annotated collection of links to the best and most up-to-date citation guides that show how to properly cite resources from the Internet. Style guides for APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, BSE, styles and a description of how to cite references from Lexis/Nexis.
#13316
These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes. Nothing here is carved in stone, and many comments are matters of personal preference — feel free to psychoanalyze me by examining my particular hangups and bêtes noires. Anyone who can resist turning my own preferences into dogma is welcome to use this HTML edition.
Lynch, Jack. Rutgers University (2001). Reference>Style Guides
#10652
A web-based complete guide to English syntax and grammar.
Darling, Charles. Capital Community College (2001). Reference>Style Guides>Grammar
#23502
Guidelines for Technical Writing
The rules here apply to all classes in the Chemical Engineering Department at Ohio University. Most of them will apply in 'the real world', too, although your employer may have some specific format requirements.
Young, V.L. and K.J. Sampson. Ohio University. Reference>Style Guides>TC>Technical Writing
#14062
Preferred editorial style for the preparation of proposed IEEE standards is established. Many of the frequently asked questions about writing drafts are answered. The optional and required contents of drafts are described, and instructions on submitting drafts for IEEE-SA Standards Board approval and publication are provided. This manual is not intended to be a guide to the procedural development of standards.
IEEE PCS (1999). Reference>Style Guides>Engineering
#13646
This is a list of resources related to language, including online reference tools like dictionaries and style guides.
#21349
Legal Research and Citation Style in the USA
The format for citations to legal materials is different from the format for scholarly citations to books and periodicals in general. This handout is a terse guide to legal citation in the USA. The generally accepted style manual for legal citations in the USA is the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, which is published by the editors of four prestigious law reviews at Columbia University, Harvard, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Yale Law Schools. A copy of theBluebook can be purchased in any law school bookstore. A comprehensive set of rules from the Bluebook is available on the Internet from Peter W. Martin at Cornell Law School. In contrast, this handout here contains a terse set of rules that agree with the Bluebook, but does not contain all of the fine points and options in the Bluebook. Opinions of some courts use a different format from the Bluebook, but these alternative citation formats contains the same information. Be aware that citations in opinions of state or federal courts may not be the correct bibliographic style according to the Bluebook.Furthermore, the proper format according to the Bluebook changes with time, so old sources (both cases and law review articles) do not use the modern format for citation.
Standler, Ronald B. RBS0.com (2000). Reference>Style Guides>Legal
#23959
Localization Guidelines for Language and Terminology
How does your writing style affect localization? The following list of suggestions provides some language and terminology guidelines that should ease localizing your application.
Microsoft (2001). Reference>Style Guides>Localization
#21592
Complete styles and guidelines for publishing a variety of technical publications.
Microsoft (2002). Reference>Style Guides>Documentation
#14189
NASA Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors 
This publication is directed toward professional writers, editors, and proofreaders. Those whose profession lies in other areas (for example, research or management), but who have occasion to write or review others' writing will also find this information useful. By carefully studying the examples and revisions to these examples, you can discern most of the techniques in my editing 'bag of tricks'; I hope that you editors will find these of particular interest.
McCaskill, Mary K. NASA (1990). Reference>Style Guides>Writing
#10672
Explains English parts of speech and gives several usage examples.
#31676
Some people write well but allow themselves to be disabled by a fear of punctuation and grammar. They know how to prewrite, organize, and revise, but proofreading for punctuation and grammar causes them difficulties. There’s no need to fear these conventions of standard written English. In fact, these conventions can help you become a more effective communicator.
Olson, Gary A. Illinois State University (1999). Reference>Style Guides>Editing>Grammar
#14008
La puntuación de los textos escritos, con la que se pretende reproducir la entonación de la lengua oral, constituye un capítulo importante dentro de la ortografía de cualquier idioma. De ella depende en gran parte la correcta expresión y comprensión de los mensajes escritos. La puntuación organiza el discurso y sus diferentes elementos y permite evitar la ambigüedad en textos que, sin su empleo, podrían tener interpretaciones diferentes.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. (Spanish) Reference>Style Guides>Writing
#15049
Sample Paper Formatted Using APA Style Guide
A sample research paper, formatted using the APA style guide.
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Sample Paper Formatted Using CBE Style Guide
A sample research paper, formatted using the CBE Style Guide.
#19768
Sample Paper Formatted Using Chicago Style 
A sample research paper, formatted using the Chicago Style.
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Sample Paper Formatted Using MLA Style Guide
A sample research paper, formatted using the MLA style guide.
