Grammar and Style |
Guide to Grammar and Style |
Articles and definitions on usage as well as comments on style. Covers grammatical rules and
explanations, and subjective suggestions for making your writing clearer and graceful, and make "proper" writing even better. |
Guide to Grammar and Writing |
Charles Darliing, Professor of English/Humanities at Capital Community college offers definitions,
examples, and books on basic grammar and provides plenty of grammar and writing links. |
The Vocabula Reivew (TVR) |
A monthly journal about the state of the English language. Regular features include
"Grumbling About Grammar," "Elegant English," "On Dimwitticisms," "Clues to Concise Writing," and "On the Bookshelf." Also has language links. |
Grammar Lady |
Answers questions on the Grammar Hotline. Helps to raise consciousness about correct language
use and to have fun with language. |
WebGrammar |
Plenty of links for students, writers, editors, educators, researchers, and web developers. |
Common Errors in English |
Clearly and entertaining and explains common usage errors. |
Grammar Guide at About.com |
Guides to grammer, fiction Writing, business Writing, freelance writing, writiers, publishing,
and more at About.com. |
H.W. Fowler
Elements of Style
Bartleby.com (home) |
Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge.
Includes H.W. Fowler's 2nd edition of The King's English, and William Strunk Jr.'s 1918 book on grammar and style, Elements of Style. |
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant |
An interactive online writer's guide and handbook, useful for all writers. Good
explanations of the writing process. |
Hypergrammar |
Offers a course in grammar. This link connects you to it's index of grammatical
terms. |
refdesk.com (Grammar/usage page) |
A facts page for grammar, usage, and style. Offers many links. (Home page to this site listed below.)
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Dictionaries, Linguistics, and Research Tools
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Your Dictionary.com |
Comprehensive portal for language, and language-related products and services. Provides more
than 2500 dictionaries with more than 300 languages. Includes a dictionary and thesaurus search engine. (1/04) |
One Look Dictionaries |
Dictionary word count = 5,988,750 words in 936 online dictionaries now indexed. (01/04) |
Cambridge Dictionaries Online |
Can search Cambridge's International Dictionary of English, Learner's dictionary,
Dictionary of American English, International Dictionary of idioms, International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Also offers a browse section. |
xrefer |
The web's reference engine. Contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations
from the world's leading publishers. |
World Wide Words |
Devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. Provides other
linguistic and English resource
sites. |
Blackwell Publishers - Linguistic Resources
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Blackwell Publishers' linguistics resource
center. The goal of this list is to be useful not comprehensive, and to help you help steer more quickly toward the information you are after. |
Linguistics, Natural Language Meta-index
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An annotated guide to the best linguistic resources on the web. |
Home Page of Robert Harris and
A Glossary of Literary Terms
and,
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices |
Offers articles and sites related to literature, research tools, tools for writers, tools for the age
of knowledge, and more. |
Research Matters |
Explore Harvard research discoveries as they occur. The latest news about medical treatments, societal
research, basic science, technological advances, and earth and space exploration. |
i-Tools (Research-It or Find-It) |
Search engines to explore language, literature, geography, finance, software libraries, usenet
newsgroups, people, etc. |
refdesk.com (Home Page) |
Complete reference desk. A plethora of links. |
Britannica Internet Guide |
Editors review websites to identify the highest- quality Web resources, which are then described,
rated according to consistent standards, and indexed. |
RobertNiles.com |
Offers a research-it-yourself site, via links to some of the most popular sources of free (and
reputable) datasets on the Internet. Check out Finding Data on the Internet. |
Encyberpedia |
A portal connecting to online encyclopedias, glossaries, and many other categories of knowledge. |
Glossarist |
Provides links to a long list of glossaries, from arts and culture to sports and travel. |
Dictonary of Symbolism |
Provides possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols
may have been used in context. |
Artcyclopedia |
A fine art search engine the provides references to sites on the WWW where artists' works can be
viewed online. For calendars of museum exhibits try, Gallery Guide, or
Traditional Fine Arts On-Line.
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Webopedia |
Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology. |
PubLink.net |
Search engine for information on books, bookstores, authors, and publishers' information on books.
Each book listing links to special author pages. |
Government and Statistical Resources
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UofM Document Center (home)
Statistical Resources on the Web
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Great Research Sources at Documents Center University of Michigan Library. |
FirstGov |
An official U.S. Govenment website and a project of the President's Management Council. |
Fedstats |
More than 70 agencies in the U.S. Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public.
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SearchGov.com |
Index of U.S. federal, state and local government Web sites. Locate CIA world Factbook Web pages with
ease. |
CIA World Fact Book |
Country profiles, field listings and reference maps. |
Stats |
Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) is a non-partisan, non-profit research organization devoted to
the accurate use of scientific and social research in public policy debate. Affiliated with
The Center for Media and Public Affairs. |
International Marketing |
Includes links to government information sharing, census, cross cultural issues reference books and
more. See Country Links A-Z
for country specific information and CIA Fact Book. |
Libraries and Media Sources |
The Library of Congress and
Copyright Information Circulars & Form Letters |
Library catalogs, collections, research services, copyright office, and more. The second link will
tell you everything you need to know about copyrights. More copyright sites. |
US Patent and Trademark Office |
Not sure you're using someone's trademark? Great resource. |
LibrarySpot |
Much more than a listing of libraries. Has links to reading rooms, special stacks, must see sites,
reference resources and featured archives. |
The Internet Public Library |
Developed by librarians committed to providing free services to the Internet community, in the
tradition of public libraries. Digital and electronic text sites
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The British Library |
Provides reading room, bibliographic, document supply and information services, as well as
exhibitions, publications and events. Also offers a gateway to Europe's national libraries--in German, English, or French. |
AcqWeb |
A gathering place for librarians, but it has lots of resources and tools for the writer. Also
has directory of publishers and vendors, including electronic. |
PubList |
Search a database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals. Includes
publications from around the world. |
FindArticles.com |
Can search Looksmart's archive of 3.5 million published articles from 700 publications (01/04). |
MediaFinder |
Pay-for service. Oxbridge Communications, Inc. maintains the largest database of U.S. and Canadian
periodical ifnromation in the world-magazines, newletters, newaers, journals, dirctories, and catalogs. |
Journalism and News-Related Reference Tools
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AJR NewsLink |
Covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media. Includes top print and media
sites. |
NewsLink |
An academic and professional research and consulting firm studing electronic publishing and visual
journalism. Includes top print and media sites. |
AssignmentEditor |
Newsroom home page with a compendium of news-related searching and reference tools. A
media-junkie's dream. |
Newspapers.com |
A free service for people to find newspaper publications all around the world. |
AP Associated Press |
AP is a not-for-profit cooperative serving 1,550 newspapers and 5,000 radio and television stations.
It has 8,500 subscribers worldwide. |
The Smoking Gun |
Offers confidential and authentic documents obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via
Freedom of Information requests and court files. |
Philosophy, History, Science, Mythology, Etc. |
Philosophy Around the Web |
A gateway to philosophy resources on the Internet. If you're interested only in the other things on
the web you can skip to Everything Else.
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Guide to Philosophy on the Internet |
Scroll up. It has the Hippias and Noesis search engines. |
Philosophy in Cyberspace |
Indexes thousands of philosophy resources and is annotated and updated regularly. Has the
Hippias search engine. |
Organization of American Historians |
Links for the history profession. |
The History Net |
Draws from many periodicals, offers several categories, a photo section and you can search the site.
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Natural Science |
Offers articles, letters, cover stories and all the links to other science sites you'll ever need.
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SciTech Daily |
Daily sources writers and publications on science and technology issues. For daily reports on
literature, philosophy, ideas, criticism, culture, art, etc., see
Arts & Letters Daily. |
Encyclopedia Mythica |
An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. |
Myths and Legends |
These links are organized by region and language group. |
The Global Ideas Bank |
For something entirely different . . . member of the
New Civilization Network, linking peole who change the world. |
Spark On-Line |
A zine exploring the principle that the new world of high technology has not only created a new
"e-society"—it has created a new understanding of self called electronic consciousness. Accepts submissions. |
Symbols.com |
More than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic
characteristics. Includes histories. |
Amusements |
Memepool |
Provides links to some very odd and fascinating sites. Part news, part irreverence. If you know of a
weird site you can submit it. |
The Onion |
A satirical newspaper from Milwaukee, WI. |
Crank Dot Net |
Devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity. All
cranks, all the time. |
The Cartoon Bank |
A compilation of every cartoon published in The New Yorker Magazine. Cartoons available for use
in publishing, advertising, periodicals, and online. |
Comics.com |
Over 60 different strips. Can search for strips and for editorial cartoons. |
