Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Italics and Underlining: Names Ships and Trains
An explanation and examples using italics/underlining when writing the names of spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and trains.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Tone: A Matter of Attitude
This site focuses on tone and audience with examples.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center Tips & Tools
The documents and videos collected here touch on most aspects of good academci writing, and all aspects of the writing process. Students can choose from the many topics to address the specific skill or concept they need to master.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Writing: Format and Style
As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this site focuses on using various ways of writing for different purposes. For learning tools, the site includes a worksheet, a factsheet, and a quiz.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 7.1: Tone and Style
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Gain a better understanding of tone and style by understanding formal and informal style, learning to write clearly, correcting vague sentences, distinguishing...
English Club
English Club: Punctuation Styles
This EnglishClub tutorial expounds upon the differences in punctuations styles that exist among individual writers, British and American authors, and publishers.
Other
Tidewater Community Colleg Writing Center: Essay Planning and Writing Guidelines
Presents guidelines for how to plan and write an essay.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Style and Technique
Use context to figure out how to use language appropriately--formality, irony, understatement, and overstatement.
Other
Technical Writing: The Conjunction Or
Intended as a grammar reference for electrical engineers, this site addresses many of the technical issues of writing, including distinguishing between the inclusive and exclusive definitions of "or."
Other
Write Content Solutions: Correlative Conjunctions
Learn about correlative conjunctions and how to use them while considering agreement and parallel structure.
Other
Grammar book.com: Effective Writing
Brief list from The Blue Book with examples of how to take ineffective writing and transforming it into effective writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Teaching Tone
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach tone using passages from Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allen Poe. We annotate passages focusing on diction and syntax to illustrate how the language contributes to the overall tone of the...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Formal Tone in a Discursive Essay
This page provides several tips for using formal tone in an essay. The tips are arranged into 'Do' and 'Do not use' categories.