Links for the English 403 Style and Grammar for Writers

Style and Rhetoric -- Figures of Speech and Thought
Silva Rhetoricae
Aristotle's Rhetoric

Reference Works

Style Manuals
The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (and not so FAQ)
UCI STYLE MANUAL A Guide for Writing for the Press
Garbl's Writing Resources Online
The KCI Reader-Based Writing Style Guide

Standard Written English and Dialects

Professahs say no let pidgin boddah you in school: UH faculty members say let it be spoken if it works in the learning process
Students' Right to Their Own Language -- Conference on College Composition and Communication
 

Academic Discourse

JAC 15.1  (1995) Hearing Voices in English Studies
 

Aural and Written Style

Martin Luther King Jr.:

"I have a dream" speech sound file
"I have a dream" text of the speech
Letter from Birmingham Jail

Broadcast Writing

Bad writing contests

William Faulkner

Faux Faulkner contest
William Faulkner on the Web

Ernest Hemingway:

Bad Hemingway contest
US News and World Report: Hemingway's style left a deep imprint on the landscape of prose

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73)
Bulwer-Lytton contest