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Questions related specifically to academic study of the Chinese language, or specific vocabulary or style to use when writing Chinese in an academic style

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Where can I find a list of commonly mistaken characters?

I don't know of anything exactly like that, but you can find characters with similar structure at zhongwen.com, and you can see the structural decomposition of characters at Wikimedia Commons.
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What etymology dictionaries are available?

zhongwen.com has a very limited amount of information on each character's origin.
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What comprehensive grammar books are available?

AllSet Learning just launched a grammar web site, and the front page has a list of reference books that they used to prepare it. The site itself also looks useful. There's not a lot of detail yet, but …
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