User:Serial Number 54129/Featured article advice
Advice from many other worthies
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[edit]Essays
[edit]- Copy-editing essentials
- Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
- Exercises in textual flow
- FA and GA answered queries
- FAC checklist for intending nominators
- How to improve your writing
- Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing
- Reviewing featured article candidates
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Guide to featured writing
- Some common objections to featured status and how to avoid them
- Style and prose checklist
- Suggestions
- Ten rules to make an article FA
External pages
[edit]- Eliminating Wordiness. Advice from the Undergraduate Writing Center, University of Texas.
- Ask Oxford. A free online dictionary resource, with a search box for looking up the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, information on better writing (including tips on spelling, grammar and plain English), a huge database of FAQs on the language, and a section on global English.
- The Owl at Purdue. Treatment of many writing issues; part of Purdue University's wide-ranging site for writers.
- Better Editor. A rich resource of style and grammar guides, dictionaries, free software downloads and other tools for serious editors.
- The American Heritage Book of English Usage. We disagree with the approach on much of this site, based as it is on traditional grammar; however, we've included the address because of its search box, which enables you to access online information on your chosen topic in several popular texts; for example, you can compare what the self-appointed authorities say about the so-called split infinitive.
- The Guardian style guide. A good read, set out as short entries in alphabetical order. Some eccentricities, though!
- The Internet Grammar of English. An online course in English grammar, written primarily for university undergraduates but more widely applicable; it assumes no prior knowledge of grammar.
- World Wide Words. Writer and lexicographer Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint—indexed articles, Q&A, reviews, topical words, turns of phrase, weird words, funnies.
- OneLook dictionary search. Enter a word (AmEng spelling) to search for dictionary websites that include that word.
- Acronym Finder. Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
- Merriam-Webster Online. Free online dictionaries, word games, thesaurus, and more
- The International System of Units (SI)
- Russ Rowlett's online Dictionary of Units of Measurement
- After Deadline Notes from the New York Times newsroom on grammar, usage and style—a weekly column