OWL is the World Wide Web acronym for On-line Writing Lab, a site on the Internet where students can find help with their writing. Go here for more about OWLs. The material on this construction site has been assembled for a Learning Center workshop on grammar, writing and the Internet. It demonstrates links to grammar and writing resources on the World Wide Web, hypertext links and lists, free tutors, writing centers and OWLs, as well as resources for ESL students. There are also resources for writers and teachers. The Purdue OWL is the preeminent Online Writing Lab on the World Wide Web. It offers a wealth of information, handouts, and a limited number of exercises, as well as comprehensive links to other writing sites on the WWW. Be sure to check the OWL writing resources and ESL resources. Capital Community-Technical College maintains another excellent site for writing resources. CTCC resources for writers offers online resources and links for writers, including writing research papers, writing about literature, guides to grammar and writing, journals and discussion groups, and links for science, technical and creative writing. CTCC online grammar & writing offers comprehensive grammar review and illustrations, from the sentence to the paragraph to the essay. CTCC online grammar also offers interactive quizzes and a response form. CTC online grammar topics is a topical index to the online grammar & writing resources. Ask grammar & FAQs CTCC will answer your question about grammar; check the FAQ file first to see if someone else has already asked your question. Some the best of the many grammar information sites on the Internet: HyperGrammar is an electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre. Be sure to read How to use. Grammar Help from Helsinki offers interactive exercises designed by students for students. Online Grammar book Online English Grammar (mostly for non-native speakers) By the way, here's research that proves that word processing grammar checkers don't work. WORD 97 and WP 8 found less than half the 20 most common errors in 3,000 essays written by college students. Thousands of Common Errors in English, each one hyperlinked to an explanation. The words most often misspelled on Usenet. (Dumbbell is the word most often misspelled.) Online tutors that say they'll answer your grammar question via e-mail: virtual grammar tutor free grammar clinic online English tutor and exercises Here are a few interactive sites especially for writers for whom English is a second (or a third, or a fourth) language. Dave's ESL Cafe is a wonderful site. Online English Grammar: A web community for students and teachers of English, offering online English courses, chat rooms, games, an international Pen Pal club, meeting areas, and ESL/EFL lesson plans. ESL online: interactive practice with English. Test your English: sample test questions and interactive exercises, hypertext practice and an online ESL course. ESL Grammar Notes - #1 nouns ESL Grammar Notes - #2 articles ESL Grammar Notes - #3 verb tenses English as a Second Language Home Page: a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the World Wide Web Resources for writers & teachers: an exhaustive list maintained by Jack Lynch, who also offers miscellaneous grammar & style notes a compendious site of Literary Resources on the Net, as well as other sites with short cuts on his home page. Cybercomp for teachers: teachers talk online. Janice R. Walker's home page: widely regarded as an important site for information on electronic pedagogy and citation, including an Online Citation Guide and an excellent guide to finding and evaluating Internet sources. Online teaching materials: mostly for ESL teachers. The Longman's English Pages: publisher's site. Garbl's online writing resources: comprehensive links. ABCentral - 15,000 links, accounting to veterinary, as well as English & technical writing. The site's in frames; scroll down the left column. Composition in Cyberspace: a central reference point for resources on the Internet for English Composition classes. The Human-Language Page: a searchable list of language-learning materials available on the Internet, over 1800 resources on than 100 different languages. style guides (by request) Karla's Guide to Citation Styles: a good overview of citation styles and conventions. The Word Wizard -- Jonathon Green of London, England. Answers your questions about word derivations and offers a selection of new words,slang meanings, snappy quotations and elegant insults. http://pw1.netcom.com/~garbl1/writing.html 11 rules for writing  Elements of Style online (free) Carnegie Mellon