Marks Family Writing Center

Resources for critical writers

Grammar and usage

• American Heritage Book of English Style
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Strunk and White's Elements of Style
• Grammar and Punctuation, a guide from UW's Writing Center

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary offers exhaustive definitions, etymologies, and documented instances of words in use
• Concise Oxford Dictionary
• Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
• OneLook searches multiple online reference sources at once

Thesauri

• Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English
• Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Documentation styles

• Chicago Style
• APA Style
• MLA Style
• AMA Style