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The Elements of Style (bartleby.com): "Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer."
Guide to Grammar and Style (rutgers.edu): "These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes."
A Guide for Writing Research Papers (commnet.edu): "This guide may suffice for most students' needs for most academic purposes in Humanities disciplines, but for advanced research projects it is by no means a substitute for the Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Sixth Edition (2003)."
Guide to AP style (usu.edu): "Why AP style?: you must know Associated Press style if you intend to get a job in print journalism."
Writer's Style Guide (cmu.edu): "We've assembled these guidelines using the Associated Press Stylebook as a primary "authority" because so much of our writing is intended for external readers—prospective students and their parents, donors, business leaders, news reporters and editors, and the public at large."

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage (bartleby.com): "With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style."
Creative Writing For Teens (about.com): Tips on creative poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenplay writing for teens.
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (virtualsalt.com): "This book contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing."
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (purdue.edu): "Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab."
Metric Style Guide (nist.gov): Information on how to properly write Metric units.
The Parts of Speech (uottawa.ca): "Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection."
Sentence Diagrams: One Way of Learning English Grammar (geocities.com): "The system of diagramming used on these web pages was introduced by Stephen Clark in 1863"

NYPL Online Style Guide (nypl.org): "This Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library explains the markup and design requirements for all Branch Libraries web projects, along with various standards and best practices."
Style Guide for online hypertext (w3.org): "This guide is designed to help you create a WWW hypertext database that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader."
Web Style Guide (webstyleguide.com): "This is not an HTML manual, nor is it a book on graphic design. It is a practical guide to help you design Web sites for the long run."
Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians (ohio-state.edu): "This document is not an in-depth HTML guide, but is instead a general introduction to Web content creation."