Saturday, June 04, 2005

Another Excellent Web Sighting

If you are looking for another useful writer's resource and have not checked out The Guide to Grammar and Writing by the Capital Community College Foundation, then you should. Developed by Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College in Hartford, the website offers the following features:
  • a reader-friendly layout for efficient access to the site
  • an in-depth review of grammar and usage
  • a discussion of the principles of composition on the word, sentence, paragraph, and document levels
  • easy-to-follow PowerPoint presentations on various writing topics
  • more than a hundred interactive quizzes on sentence structure, word usage, punctuation, and other grammatical issues
  • excellent aphorisms on writing by famous authors
By the way, the Foundation exists on contributions and would welcome your donation. Here is the link: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar.
at
Labels: ,
  • Hold Those Hyphens
    A participant in one of my workshops, D. Hom, asked a question about hyphenating expressions such as “end of year.” Determining what to h...
  • Hold the Date: October 20 is National Day on Writing
    The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is busy creating a National Day on Writing, slated for October 20, 2009, as a way of reco...
  • Logical Fallacies, Part 8: Red Herring
    When writers choose an unrelated point to distract readers from the real issue, they are committing the logical fallacy of a red herring . I...