Strunk and White's  Elements of Style is an essential book on writing. Read the 1918 edition by William Strunk, Jr., at  http://www.bartleby.com/141/. 

Another classic that any writer should read and follow is "Politics and the English Language," a masterful essay on style by George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm. The essay is located at  http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/pol.htm, a  site which also includes such powerful Orwell essays as "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant." 

Professor Jack Lynch of Rutgers has an excellent  Guide to Grammar and Style at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html; note also his guide to "Getting an 'A' on an English Paper."

Dan White of the University of Toronto has a site called Papers: Expectations, Guidelines, Advice, and Grading, co-written with Jeannine  DeLombard. You'll find useful instruction and examples on structuring arguments, writing about literature, integrating sources, and avoiding plagiarism at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~dwhite/papers.htm.

A good dictionary is one of your best tools as a writer. The fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is located at  http://www.bartleby.com/61/.

Search for the origins of words and the history of the English language at http://www.wordorigins.org/histeng.htm.

Find the source of that famous saying at the online edition of Bartlett's Quotations, http://www.bartleby.com/100/.

Access the catalogs of many public and college libraries, including both campuses of Northwest-Shoals Community College, at http://web2.lmn.lib.al.us/. Remember that our library can get a book through inter-library loan, if we don't have a copy.

The University of North Alabama's library is a good place for research, although you'll have to do it there; you can't check out books unless you're a student or alumnus. The catalog (UNACAT) is located at http://www2.una.edu/library/.

Sometimes, a college, university, or local public library just won't do. Try the Library of Congress site at http://www.loc.gov/.