ON-LINE ASSISTANCE FOR WRITERS

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Dictionaries
Writing Aids
Citation of
Electronic Materials
Miscellaneous

Here are a few web pages that can help you become a better writer.

Dictionaries

  • WWW Dictionaries
  • The American Standard Law Dictionary
  • The Oxford English Dictionary Online
  • ARTFL Project: Webster Search Form
  • The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
  • WordNet 1.5 Vocabulary Helper
  • OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
  • http://www.onelook.com:...st=&dbm_list=&dbm_list=

    • Writing Aids

  • Help with Research Papers
  • Writing Research Papers: A Step-by-Step Procedure
  • Help with Research Papers
  • Purdue University On-line Writing Lab
  • Purdue On-Line Writing Lab -- Other OWLs
  • Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
  • Grammar Hotline Directory 1996

    • Citation of Electronic Materials

  • citation formats
  • Cite them Right- Contents Page
  • Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
  • How do you cite URL's in a bibliography?
  • citation formats
  • Citation Formats
  • Walker/ACW Style Sheet
  • LINGUIST List 7.51: How to cite on-line research
  • Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information
  • Citation Guides for Internet Sources
  • MLA Style Sheet for Electronic Citations
  • MLA - Style Citations of Electronic Sources
  • Electronic Sources - MLA Style
  • Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
  • Walker/ACW Style Sheet (Abridged)
  • Walker/ACW Style Sheet
  • Publication Information
  • Academe Today: Resources on the Internet
  • Web-Cite
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe This Week
  • Blue Web'n Applications Library

    • Miscellaneous

  • Roget's Thesaurus - Many believe Roget's is the best. If you do not know what I mean, pay a visit.

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Every writer sometimes looks for just the right way to say it. Sometimes someone else has already said it better.

  • The Encyclopedia Mystica - Packed with folklore, mythology and legends.

  • The Tech Classics - Translations of 376 Greek, Roman, and Italian Texts, Including Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, and Machiavelli's The Prince. Also has a key word search tool and author, title, date and translator indexes.

  • The Internet Public Library - Just what it says. It is located at the University of Michigan. Go Blue - at least for this.