English Writing Books

• Heather Avery, Lucille Strath, Karen Taylor, Kathleen James-Covan, Catherine Taylor, Annette Tramly, Stephen Brown, "Thinking It Through: A Practical Guide to Academic Essay Writing" , 2nd edition, Academic Skills Center, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 1989.
• William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, "The Elements of Style", 3rd edition, MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc., NY, 1979.
• "Fowler's Modern English Usage", 2nd Edition revised by Sir Ernest Gawers, Oxford University Press, UK, 1983.
• William E Messenger, Jan De Bruyn,"The Canadian Writer's Handbook", 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1991
• "The Chicago Manual of Style", 13th edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1989
• Thomas S. Kane, "The Oxford Dictionary Guide to Writing, A Rhetoric & Handbook for College Students", Oxford University Press, 1983

English Dictionary

You can access Webster Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary from any Unix prompt on the MFCF machines. The man page explains the switches (e.g. for Webster -t toggles thesaurus mode)

    webster word
    oed word   
 

The university subscribes to a number of online dictionaries and encyclopedias. They are accessible only from the on-campus. From off-campus computers you can connect through a proxy, as explained here.

• Webster On-Line Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary
• English Dictionaries and Thesauri accessible from UW computers