Writing Help

Here are some of the best places to go for answers to your questions about language use:

Online Writing Help

• The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
• University of Guelph Learning Commons' Writing Services
• Grammar Help from Writing for Business, a Whatis.com Blog
  

Writing & Editing Guides

• Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook
• The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications by Amy Einsohn
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
  

Style Guides

• The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition
• Words into Type by Marjorie E. Skillin and Robert M. Gay
• The MLA Handbook, 7th edition
• The Canadian Press Stylebook, 13th edition
• The Associated Press Stylebook, 2008 edition
• Editing Canadian English, 2nd edition
• The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing
  

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (British English)
• Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition (Canadian English)
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (American English)
• MacQuarie Dictionary, 4th edition (Australian English)