User:Serial Number 54129/Featured article advice

Advice from many other worthies

WP

 * FA advice
 * FA criteria
 * How to navigate the FA and A-class review process
 * Peer review

Essays

 * Copy-editing essentials
 * Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
 * Exercises in textual flow
 * FA and GA answered queries
 * FAC checklist for intending nominators
 * How to improve your writing
 * Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing
 * Reviewing featured article candidates
 * Simplified Manual of Style
 * Guide to featured writing
 * Some common objections to featured status and how to avoid them
 * Style and prose checklist
 * Suggestions
 * Ten rules to make an article FA

External pages

 * Eliminating Wordiness . Advice from the Undergraduate Writing Center, University of Texas.
 * Ask Oxford . A free online dictionary resource, with a search box for looking up the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, information on better writing (including tips on spelling, grammar and plain English), a huge database of FAQs on the language, and a section on global English.
 * The Owl at Purdue . Treatment of many writing issues; part of Purdue University's wide-ranging site for writers.
 * Better Editor . A rich resource of style and grammar guides, dictionaries, free software downloads and other tools for serious editors.
 * The American Heritage Book of English Usage . We disagree with the approach on much of this site, based as it is on traditional grammar; however, we've included the address because of its search box, which enables you to access online information on your chosen topic in several popular texts; for example, you can compare what the self-appointed authorities say about the so-called split infinitive.
 * The Guardian style guide . A good read, set out as short entries in alphabetical order. Some eccentricities, though!
 * The Internet Grammar of English . An online course in English grammar, written primarily for university undergraduates but more widely applicable; it assumes no prior knowledge of grammar.
 * World Wide Words . Writer and lexicographer Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint—indexed articles, Q&A, reviews, topical words, turns of phrase, weird words, funnies.
 * OneLook dictionary search . Enter a word (AmEng spelling) to search for dictionary websites that include that word.
 * Acronym Finder . Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
 * Merriam-Webster Online . Free online dictionaries, word games, thesaurus, and more
 * The International System of Units (SI)
 * Russ Rowlett's online Dictionary of Units of Measurement
 * After Deadline Notes from the New York Times newsroom on grammar, usage and style—a weekly column