Writers Resources

The Writer's Tool Kit The Writer's Tool Kit- Features exercises to help participants improve letters, e-mail, and performance appraisals. Multiple-choice grammar test Multiple-choice grammar test- Provides English grammar test for intermediate level with scores and answers. English Grammar 101 English Grammar 101- Free English grammar lessons, quizzes, exercises, and tests for alternative education settings, language arts classes, home schooling, adult study, and ESL co… Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation- Provides an on-line resource for grammar and punctuation usage with lessons, quizzes, and an optional test to evaluate the understanding of t… Red Pen Brigade Red Pen Brigade- Photographs and analysis of frustrating grammar errors. Elizabeth Molin Elizabeth Molin- A handful of essays on grammar meant to be informative and funny. Apostrophe Abuse Apostrophe Abuse- Details public misuse of the apostrophe, with photos and commentary. The Grammar Vandal The Grammar Vandal- The chronicles of a woman who corrects the grammar of public signs in Boston with a permanent marker, and makes other observations about grammar. The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks- A moderated blog with user-submitted pictures of quotation marks used improperly, with humorous commentary. Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks- They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places. NHunspell NHunspell- A .NET Version of the open office spell checker Hunspell. It is free (LGPL licensed). Medical Spell Checker - Inductel Medical Spell Checker - Inductel- Spell check for medical terms. SpellCheck24 SpellCheck24- Free online spell checker for spelling, grammar and style including readability analysis and word density analysis. Grammarly Grammarly- Online proofreading tool that checks text for grammar, punctuation, and style, and features a contextual spelling checker and plagiarism detector. Don’t Look Stupid! Don’t Look Stupid!- Extracts the text of websites and saves it in RTF or DOCX format for spell checks in MS Word and other text processing software. Online Correction Online Correction- Online text checker searches uploaded text for spelling errors and common diction mistakes. Text Trust Text Trust- Spell check your web site. Free trial. Cilware Cilware- Western Armenian spell checker and dictionary. Also has a game available. PetaMem Spellchecker PetaMem Spellchecker- Spellchecker for 52 languages and dialects. SpellBoy SpellBoy- A free online spell checking service. Available in three different languages. Also converts text. SpellCheck.CC SpellCheck.CC- A free multilingual online spellchecker for 12 languages. SpellCheckOnline.com SpellCheckOnline.com- Utility for spelling terms. tinySpell tinySpell- A free English spell-checker for Windows. Checks word in clipboard and/or on the fly. Small and easy to use. Resides in the system tray. Hunspell Hunspell- The spell checker of Google Chrome, also used by proprietary software packages. W3C Spell Checker W3C Spell Checker- Simple tool to check the spelling of a web page. Supports English and French. Respelt Respelt- Tool to check websites for spelling errors. It accepts input as plain text, URL and RSS feed. Online-spellcheck.com Online-spellcheck.com- Tool allows a free online spelling and grammar check with language detection and several export options. SpellCheckPlus.com SpellCheckPlus.com- Tool that finds common spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in English. Ispell Ispell- An interactive spell-checking program for Unix. Dictionaries are available for a large number of European languages. JSpell International Spell Checker JSpell International Spell Checker- An international web based spell checker for Java, JSP, IIS ASP .NET, Cold Fusion, HTML forms and JavaScript. JOrtho JOrtho- Open source spell checker written in Java; it can be bound to any JTextComponent and uses dictionaries based upon Wiktionary. Spell Catcher Spell Catcher- Multilingual spell checker, thesaurus, dictionary and writing software, with interactive autocorrect, autotext, autoformat and shorthand abbreviations with universa… Open Source Suggester Spell Check Open Source Suggester Spell Check- Java library to provide local spell checking service. Free. Design215 Design215- Free web based spell checker and word count. Copy and paste up to 24000 characters. Optional slang word list. Spell 400 Spell 400- Adds spell checking to any iSeries or AS/400 applications. Spell Check Anywhere Spell Check Anywhere- Spell check text typed in any Windows program. FreeEngl FreeEngl- An open source spell checker developed with a reduced version of the CMU dictionary. SpellingCow Spell Checker SpellingCow Spell Checker- A web-based spell checker that can be installed on any Internet web form. Add just two lines to install. Free and licensed versions available. Sha Plus - GlobalSpellChecker Sha Plus - GlobalSpellChecker- Check spelling and meaning from any application using MS Word 97 or above. Speller Pages Speller Pages- A free, open source web user interface and JavaScript library for a server-side spell check program, available in PHP or Perl/CGI versions. Björn's Online Spellchecker Björn's Online Spellchecker- A free online spellchecker for English, German and Kurdi languages. AfterScan AfterScan- Spell-checker and automatic proofing and correction tool. Product overview, FAQs, screenshots, FAQs, and trial download. Version 6.3 released in 2015. WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker) WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker)- Perl/JavaScript application that can be used directly from a Web browser. Free. [GNU GPL] SpellCheck.net SpellCheck.net- Free online spell checker, copy and paste a word or document up to 5000 characters to check and correct it online. Spellex Spellex- Spell checking software for the medical, pharmaceutical, legal, bioscience, dental, and scientific and engineering fields, integrated with Word or WordPerfect. Spellink Spellink- Multilingual spell-checker software. Check spelling for English, German, French, Spanish in any Windows application. Dictionary: business, science, humanities, medical a… Excalibur Excalibur- LaTeX aware spelling checker for the Macintosh. Free. Last updated: February 9th 2009. ieSpell ieSpell- ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. Asutype Asutype- Windows (up to Win 8) program to correct spelling and expand text on the fly. Trialware from Fanix software. GNU Aspell GNU Aspell- Free and open source spell checker. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.