 |  Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writers, 3/e Michael L. Keene,
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Katherine H. Adams,
Loyola University New Orleans
Internet Links
OWLs and Online Writing Centers
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/)
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue. Excellent resources for writers, including instructional handouts on writing concerns and points of grammar. Includes links to dozens of other OWLs. | | | | http://writing.colostate.edu/
(http://writing.colostate.edu/)
The Writing Center at Colorado State University. In its Reference Materials are handouts about writing, research, oral presentations, and graphics. | | | | http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/
(http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/)
The Writing Center at Hunter College. Online handouts about the writing process, grammar and mechanics, writing research papers, and business and technical writing. | | | | http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/
(http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/)
The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. See especially the links for Online Help for Common Writing Assignments and Problems and the links for HTML and Web Page Design Resources. |
Guides to Grammar and Style
| Guide to Grammar and Writing
(http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm)
Concise hypertext guide from Capital Community -Technical College in Hartford, CT.. Includes 150 Interactive Quizzes, an excellent list of Online Resources for Writing, and Grammar FAQs. | | | | http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
(http://www.bartleby.com/index.html)
Elements of Style by William Strunk, 1918 edition. The first edition of the concise classic guide to style and usage. |
Guides to Writing Online Documents
| Web Style Guide
(http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html)
From Yale University, guidelines for the design and editorial content of Web pages. | | | | Good Documents
(http://www.gooddocuments.com/homepage/homepage.htm)
Guidelines for creating online business documents. | | | | Core Rules of Netiquette
(http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html)
10 key points for appropriate online communication. |
Words and Phrases
| Commonly Confused Words
(http://www.pnl.gov/ag/usage/confuse.html)
Definitions and examples of commonly confused words from the Author's Guide of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Use the Find command on your browser to locate the word that's confusing you. | | | | Deadwood Phrases
(http://www.pnl.gov/ag/usage/deadwood.html)
Lists of wordy phrases and ways to tighten them (from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). | | | | The Word Detective by Evan Morris
(http://www.word-detective.com/index.html)
Word and phrase origins from Morris's newspaper column. |
Writing Links
| Garbl's Writing Resources Online
(http://members.home.net/garbl/writing/)
A comprehensive listing of links by a professional writer about grammar, style and usage, plain language, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play, and a writing bookshelf. | | | | http://www.stetson.edu/~rhansen/writing.html
(http://www.stetson.edu/~rhansen/writing.html)
Indispensable Writing Resources. Links to reference materials on the Internet. |
ESL RESOURCES
| ESL Web Guide
(http://eslcafe.com/search/)
Over 2,000 links for ESL students and teachers. | | | | On-Line English Grammar
(http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm)
Searchable hypertext of grammar basics. Sound files are available too. | | | | Lists of Grammar Lists
(http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/grlists.htm)
Links for irregular verbs, spelling rules, verb-preposition combinations, linking verbs, count and noncount nouns, and conjunctions from Georgia State University. | | | | Activities for ESL Students
(http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/s/)
Self-study quizzes, crossword puzzles, and links created by ESL teachers from around the world for The Internet TESL Journal. |
Online Books
| On-Line Books Page
(http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)
From Carnegie-Mellon University, links to over 9,000 books that can be read for free on the Internet. Mainly out-of-copyright classics in English but also foreign language archives and specialty archives (from children's literature to science fiction). (Beware: some of these files are huge.) | | | | Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/)
Classics in English and American literature and Western philosophy online and downloadable as PDF files. Many books are searchable. | | | | Project Gutenberg
(http://promo.net/pg/index.html)
Public-domain books, light literature, heavy literature, and reference books in "plain vanilla ASCII." | | | | Books in Chains
(http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~RETTBESR/links.html)
English resources on the Web, including links to indexes, electronic texts, specific canons/disciplines, libraries and institutions, booksellers, author pages, and literary magazines on the Web. | | | |
(http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/index.html)
First chapters of some of the new books reviewed in The New York Times. | | | | Bookwire
(http://www.bookwire.com/)
Publishers Weekly Web page, including links to online book review magazines. |
Search Engines
| Alta Vista
(http://www.altavista.com/)
Large full-text search engine. Use to search for narrow, specific topics on the Web. Use Advanced Search to limit hits by date and relevance of key terms. | | | | Google
(http://www.google.com/)
Ranks web sites by link popularity, quality, and content. Use to locate good sites in response to broad, general searches. | | | | HotBot
(http://hotbot.lycos.com/)
Easy-to-use advanced search feature, Search Smarter, allows you to search by date, by type of file (such as gif or jpeg), and by domain and to specify number of results and the size of descriptions. | | | | Infoseek
(http://www.go.com/)
Large full-text search engine. Ranks hits by relevance and searches for similar pages. | | | | Northern Light
(http://www.northernlight.com/search.html)
Searches not only the Web but also its collection of over 5,000 newswires and periodicals (full-text articles cost $1-$4 to access; article summaries are free). Search results are ranked by relevance and divided into Custom Search Folders. | | | | Yahoo!
(http://www.yahoo.com/)
A hierarchical subject directory with search capabilities. Yahoo! is the tool to use when you know what you're looking for. | | | | About.com (formerly The Mining Company)
(http://www.about.com/)
Subject sites created by experts rather than a webcrawler. | | | | Britannica
(http://www.britannica.com/)
A subject directory of Web sites recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica staff members. Not comprehensive enough for searches but can help you create a bookmark file with excellent links. | | | | Dogpile
(http://www.dogpile.com/custom/index.html)
A metasearch engine that can search with over two dozen engines, three at a time. You can customize the order and the engines used. | | | | InferenceFind
(http://www.infind.com/)
A metasearch engine that does parallel searches with half a dozen search engines and the clusters the results by source. | | | | Ask Jeeves
(http://www.ask.com/)
If Jeeves can't answer your question, scroll to the lower half of the page to see the results from several search engines. |
If you are seeking a specific piece of information, a search engine is more likely to get results, but these subject directories will lead you to a wealth of intriguing resources on the Internet.
| World Wide Web Virtual Library
(http://vlib.org/Home.html)
Specialized indexes on almost 300 topics maintained by specialists around the world. General subject areas are agriculture, business and economics, computer science, communications and media, education, engineering, humanities, information management, international affairs, law, recreation, regional studies, science, and society. Searchable from the Library's home page. | | | | Voice of the Shuttle
(http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/)
Two dozen searchable humanities collections from the University of California at Santa Barbara, including anthropology, area studies, history, literature, philosophy, political & government, and women's studies. | | | | http://eserver.org/
(http://eserver.org/)
The English Server. Searchable collections in the arts and humanities, ranging from new media design to 18th-century cultural history. | | | | Academic Info
(http://www.academicinfo.net/table.html)
A well-organized directory of Internet resources for students in almost 100 academic disciplines, from American Literature to World History. | | | | WebGEMS
(http://www.fpsol.com/gems/webgems_about.htm)
Small, selective lists of links to guides, databases, and other resources in the humanities, social sciences, society and culture, science, and technology and applied sciences. Includes a connection to AltaVista or InfoSeek to search WebGEM pages. | | | | Argus Clearinghouse
(http://www.clearinghouse.net/)
Small, selective lists of links to academic and general-interest resources in 13 categories, from Arts & Humanities to Social Sciences & Social Issues. Links are rated, and a full-word search is available. | | | | Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
(http://infomine.ucr.edu/Main.html)
A virtual library of 14,000 links in 10 areas (from Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Sciences to Visual and Performing Arts) from the University of California library system. | | | | The Digital Librarian
(http://www.digital-librarian.com/)
Selected links for about 90 topics, ranging from Africana to children's literature to Web page design. |
Dictionaries
| Merriam-Webster Online
(http://www.m-w.com/home.htm)
Searchable Webster's Dictionary and Webster's Thesaurus. | | | | Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
(http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/)
Searchable dictionary that allows an Approximate Search if you're not sure of a word's spelling. | | | | A Web of Online Dictionaries
(http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html)
Searchable Webster's Dictionary plus links to dictionaries and grammars in other languages, from Albanian to Yiddish. | | | | OneLook Dictionaries
(http://www.onelook.com/)
Metasearch of and links to specialized dictionaries on diverse topics, from forest pathology to Italian cooking or Eastern philosophy. | | | | Oxford English Dictionary
(http://www.oed.com/index.htm)
The definitive dictionary of the English language. An online version is supposed to be available to the public in October 1999; it may currently be available on your campus network, however. |
Biographical References
| Biographical Dictionary
(http://www.s9.com/biography/)
Brief entries about some 27,000 notable men and women. See also the Links to biography-related sites from Astronauts to Obituaries to Science Fiction writers. | | | | Lives, The Biography Resource
(http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/)
Links to thousands of biographical sites, memoirs, and oral histories of individuals and groups (from African American soldiers to women in aviation). |
Quotations
| quoteland.com
(http://www.quoteland.com/)
Quotations searchable by topic, literary quotations, humorous quotations, and a handful of audio quotations from TV, movies, and music. |
Statistics
| FedStats
(http://www.fedstats.gov/)
Links to statistics from some 70 Federal agencies. | | | | Statistical Resources on the Web
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stcomp.html)
Collection of links from the University of Michigan. |
Atlases and Maps
| CIA World Factbook
(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
Background information and maps for every country in the world. | | | | National Geographic's Map Machine Atlas
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/index.html)
Point-and-click maps with brief information about each country. | | | | Digital Librarian's Maps and Geography Links
(http://www.digital-librarian.com/maps.html)
Historical maps, maps of space, road maps, and links to a wide variety of maps and geographical societies. |
News Directories
| American Journalism Review (AJR) Newslink
(http://ajr.newslink.org/menu.html)
Newspapers (including campus newspapers), magazines, and radio/TV links around the world. | | | | NewsCentral
(http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/)
3,500 links to newspapers around the world. | | | | News Directory.com
(http://www.ecola.com/)
Over 10,000 links to national and international newspapers and magazines as well as television. | | | | News Resource
(http://www.newo.com/)
News sources around the world, some mainstream (Time World Wide) and some less familiar (such as Hispanic/Latino News Service or Tabloid News Services). | | | | U-Wire
(http://www.uwiretoday.com/)
Student-written, college-focused newswire with daily feeds from 400 U.S. campuses. |
Newspapers
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(http://www.boston.com/globe/)
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(http://www.csmonitor.com/)
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(http://www.latimes.com/)
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(http://www.nytimes.com/)
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(http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
| | | |
(http://www.trib.com/NEWS/)
The Internet newspaper from Associated Press. | | | |
(http://interactive.wsj.com/home.html)
Two weeks of free access. |
Magazines
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(http://www.theatlantic.com/)
Online version of Atlantic Monthly. | | | |
(http://www.discover.com/)
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(http://www.economist.com/)
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(http://www.newsweek.com/)
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(http://www.salon.com/)
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(http://www.sciam.com/)
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(http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/)
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(http://www.time.com/time/)
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Film
| Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com/)
Information about 180,000 films. | | | | MovieWEB
(http://movieweb.com/)
Previews of current films from 10 studios. |
REFERENCE MATERIAL
| Oxford English Dictionary
(http://www.oed.com/)
In addition to offering comprehensive information on the OED, this site is also the home of OED Online, "the internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book" (The Guardian). OED Online | | | | Roget's Thesaurus (version 1.02) Thesaurus.com
(http://www.thesaurus.com/)
Merriam Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus | | | | Dictionary.com
(http://www.dictionary.com/)
Various dictionaries and thesauruses that feature vertical columns of links |
News and Media: News Filters
| PointCast
(http://www.infogate.com/index.php?page=download:index_pointcast2)
| | | | CRAYON
(http://crayon.net/)
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education