Useful links
Effective writers don’t need to know everything about the use of English, spelling, common errors etc — but they do need to be able to recognise what they don’t know and know where to find the answer.
Style guide of the Guardian newspaper
Check fadas and more in an Irish-English dictionary
Is the right word on the tip of your tongue? Go to this reverse dictionary, type in the description and it will give you the word you want
Readability tests: Copy a paragraph here to calculate the number of years of formal education required to read a text (Time and Newsweek have a reading age of 10 and 11)
George Orwell's famous essay Politics and the English Language (with his six rules for writing)
Go to bartleby.com for resources for writers, including:
Fowler’s classic The King’s English, an authoritative resource with common-sense rules of style and grammar
Strunk’s Elements of Style, the traditional reference for anyone who wants to write clear but classy English
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