Nifwl Seirff

Writing Resources

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition - William Strunk Jr., E.B. White and Roger Angell (And a free online searchable version)
Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynn Truss (amazon.de, amazon.com) A wonderfully humorous book on why punctuation is important.
RMIT Writing Lab - free online course
English basics - grammar worksheets - useful for teaching and review
Writing and humanistic studies - from MIT Open Courseware
10 free writing courses - usually offered by US universities, a post written by Education Portal.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Purdue University. For students of all ages, ESL students and professional writers.
The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Writers Digest, packed full of resources and includes a daily writing prompt.
The Renegade Writer on freelance writing
Men with Pens
Write to Done
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month, an online community where everyone writes a novel in November.
HubPages.com - writers write articles, participate in discussions, and perhaps even earn a little from their writing!

Writing Research Papers - David R. Caprette, Rice University
How to write a research paper - experiment-resources.com
Journal of writing research - an international peer reviewed journal covering research into writing processes, written composition, linguistics, research methodology and more.
Writing Research Paper: A Complete Guide - James D. Lester (amazon.de, amazon.com)
The Craft of Research - Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams (amazon.de, amazon.com)
Online guide to writing and research - University of Maryland University College

The Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th edition), Wiley and Sons (amazon.de, amazon.com)
Intro to Tech Communication - MIT Open Courseware
Introduction to Technical Communication: Ethics in Science and Technology - MIT Open Courseware
Introduction to Technical Communication: Explorations in Scientific and Technical Writing - MIT Open Courseware
Professional, Technical writing - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Technical Writing - Wikiversity courses and articles
STC - Society for Technical Communication
ASTC (Vic) - Australian Society for Technical Communication (Victoria)
ASTC (NSW) - Australian Society for Technical Communication (NSW)

Editing Hacks - learn editing techniques, watch tutorials and read interviews with professional editors.
Proofreading - Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
SOCED - Society of Editors (Vic) Inc.

Indexing Books - Nancy C. Mulvany (amazon.de, amazon.com)
Allegro articles - ideas for indexing books, technical documentation and websites.
ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers

CTAN TeX community - has heaps of links
TeX User Group Another huge collection of TeX links.
Tobias Oetiker's LaTeX Tutorial
Various tutorials On the TUG website
BiBTeX - Brief Description
CSE1402 Technical Documentation - many templates in the Prac section, descriptions of LaTeX use in the notes
MikTeX - LaTeX for Windows.