Want to gain more control over your editing skills? These links and handouts will help you review common editing and stylistic problems so you can revise your own writing more confidently. TIP: Save most of your editing and proofreading until close to the end of your writing process, when you're reasonably sure about the content of your draft.
There, They're, & Their! Helpful Usage Tips
- Collocations: words that belong together. Particularly helpful if English is an additional language. -- English Club
- Common Errors in English: an extensive alphabetical list of common errors, including "confusibles" like there/their and its/it's -- P. Brians, Washington State University
- Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing: short articles and podcasts on many usage questions -- by Grammar Girl
- Alt-English-Usage: resources and access to discussion groups about English usage
Grammar Refresher
- Grammar and Punctuation: includes handouts on common errors and how to proofread -- University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Guide to Grammar and Writing: this extensive site, which includes self-scoring quizzes, allows users to pick and choose elements of grammar they want to review -- Capital Community College
- Grammar: includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions -- Purdue University Online Writing Lab