Helpful websites for Common Editing Issues Fun (yes, maybe I have a warped sense of fun), interactive exercises

on a great number of issues: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm; Use these if you understand the grammatical issue and want to check for your understanding. For definitions and descriptions of the issues, you can use the list below. For general grammar information a great place to start is http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/grammar_topics.htm For specific issues: Affect/Effect and Accept/Except: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelprob.html Apostrophes: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html Capitalization: http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/capital.html Coherence: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm Conciseness, Eliminating Wordiness, and Moving Away from There is/there are: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/concise.htm Comma splice: http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/comma.htm http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_sentpr.html Comma use: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html Dangling modifiers: http://wwwnew.towson.edu/ows/dangmod.htm (you have to scroll down) or: http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/modifiers.html Fragments: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/fragment.htm Parallelism: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_parallel.html Passive voide: http://www.uark.edu/campusresources/qwrtcntr/resources/handouts/activepassive.htm Plural vs. possessive: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/cgishl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/plurals_quiz.htm Proofreading: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_edit.html Run on sentences: http://ace.acadiau.ca/english/grammar/runon.htm Semicolons: http://www.sdc.uwo.ca/writing/handouts/The%20Semi-colon.pdf

Subject-Verb agreement: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html Topic Sentences: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partopic.html Wordiness/passives: http://www.gpc.edu/~lawowl/handouts/eliminating-wordiness.pdf Word Choice (common errors dictionary): http://englishplus.com/grammar/mistcont.htm Wrong Word: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everyday_writer3e/20errors/4.html ESL issues: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html