WRITING RESOURCES

Practical Guide to English Usage

A guide developed by the Language Service of the Open University of Catalonia.

The BBC News Styleguide

The BBC style guide.

On-line style guide

The University of Oxford style guide

Grammar Handbook

Online handbook developed by The Centre for Writing Studies from the University of Illinois.  

Punctuation Made Simple

It provides guidelines on English punctuation.

GENERAL DICTIONARIES

Macmillan Dictionary

The online version of the Macmillan dictionary.

Oxford Dictionaries

The online version of the Oxford dictionary.

SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES

The Rice University Neologisms Database

A database with more than 5000 neologisms, developed by the University of Rice.

UNTERM

A database with multilingual terminology, developed by the UN.

TRANSLATORS

Apertium

Online translator developed by the University of Alicante.

SpanishDict

Online translator.

Wordreference

Online translator.

GRAMMAR CHECKERS/VERIFIERS

Online Text Correction

Online English grammar checker.

SpellCheckPlus

Online English grammar checker.

Wordnik Dictionary

English dictionary based in a collection of writing, which combines multiple written and audiovisual sources.

Phrasal Verb Dictionary

Phrasal verbs dictionary.