Microsoft Writing Style Guide Assistant

Answers questions on William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918): rules of usage, principles of composition and words often misused, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.

Answers questions on writing clearly for your audience from the U.S. Federal Plain Language Guidelines, citing the GitHub repo GSA/plainlanguage.gov (US government work, public domain). Not an official U.S. government product.

Answers questions on Mary Owens Crowther's How to Write Letters: business letters, applications, social notes and letters of condolence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on open source licenses: what MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL and others permit and require, citing choosealicense.com in the GitHub repo github/choosealicense.com (MIT). Not legal advice. Not an official GitHub product.

Answers questions on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: Mary Lennox, Misselthwaite Manor, Colin, Dickon and the garden, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: the shipwreck, life on the island, the footprint and Friday, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.

Answers questions on H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds: the Martian cylinders, the Heat-Ray, the fighting-machines and the red weed, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.