The on-line lab at Purdue University is available to anyone seeking to become a better writer. Check out the class handouts and links to other resources.
Search standard reference sources such as Strunk's style guide, Fowler's King's English, and Roget's thesaurus.
A concise web-writing style guide with supporting research citations. We give it high ratings for consistently following its own advice.
This site presents a complete research study on web reading behavior and shows how the conclusions can be applied. It also references several style guides and English grammar and vocabulary resources.
A commercial site for e-write, a web-writing and design business serving major national and transnational corporations. Read its writing tips and follow links to illustrative sites.
A site dedicated to professional development of web writers. Its articles, newsletters, and announcements can be helpful to anyone who cares about good writing on the web.
A broad conceptual introduction to issues related to web design.
An extensive directory with links to funding sources in a wide variety of areas. Go directly to their web sites for information about their missions, funding interests, and finances. Some even provide applicaiton forms and guidelines for download.
A government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activites which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. Also includes advice for developing and writing grant proposals.
The Foundation Finder is a database that includes contact information for over 59,000 grant-making foundations.
An attractively organized site with grantwriting tips, strategies, and guidelines. This site is intended to help non-profit organizations, but has links, resources, and information that may help grantwriters in general.
An extensive database of non-profit organizations. Identify potential funding sources and get ideas from other organizations in your field.
This site offers an excellent guide for business plan development and writing. It also provides some useful sample plans and tips on presentation. Very well organized.
Many more samples. All were finalists or winners of the "MOOT CORP" competition held at the University of Texas at Austin.
Although the site offers some freeware and shareware software aids that may be of interest, we call your particular attention to a set of "White Papers." The planning process is well described, and some very useful ideas are presented.
Obtain information about SBA lending programs and become familiar with the business plan format it uses to evaluate loan applications.