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 Jack London's The Call of the Wild: Buck, the Klondike, the law of club and fang, Spitz and John Thornton, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Anna Sewell's Black Beauty: a horse's life, Ginger, Merrylegs, the bearing rein and cab work in London, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Kipling's The Jungle Book: Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the White Seal, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the story.

Answers questions on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov, the murder, Sonia, Porfiry and guilt, quoting Constance Garnett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.