California Colleges

Art Center College of Design

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

California Maritime Academy

California’s Two-Year Community Colleges

Harvey Mudd College

Mills College

Pepperdine University

San Jose State University

Santa Clara University

Stanford University

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Davis

University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Southern California

Recommended Reading

Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Willa Cather’s “The Sentimentality of William Tavener”

Joseph Conrad

Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs

James Joyce

Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

Jack London

James Madison’s Federalist Paper No. 10

Somerset Maugham’s The Trembling of a Leaf

Edith Nesbit’s Five Children and It

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart”

Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The early poems of W. B. Yeats

Hard-boiled L. A. Fiction

Writing Tip

Learn to Edit Yourself

Using Transitions

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 1

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 2

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 3, pt 1

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 3, pt 2

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 4

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 5

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 6

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 6, Revisited

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 7

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 8

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 9

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 10

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 11

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 12

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 13

Strunk and White’s Rule No. 14

Strunk and White's Rule No. 15

The Right Word

Accept vs. Except

Affect vs. Effect

After vs. Afterward

Being

Complement vs. Compliment

Comprise, Compose, and Constitute

Discomfit vs. Discomfort

Disinterested vs. Uninterested

Envelope vs. Envelop

Everyday vs. Every day

Evoke vs. Invoke

Exasperate vs. Exacerbate

Expedient vs. Expeditious

Fortuitous vs. Fortunate

Gratuitous vs. Gratuity

It’s, You’re and They’re vs.
Its, Your, Their and There

Lay vs. Lie

Leverage Massive Impact!

Loose vs. Lose

Principle vs. Principal

Strategem vs. Strategy