Reference Tools
Britannica.com
Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center
that lets users simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia,
expert reviews of the Web's best sites, timely articles from leading magazines,
and related books. Special interactive features extend these resources to create
a distinctive, authoritative Internet destination. Britannica.com includes the
complete, updated Encyclopędia Britannica, the oldest and largest general
reference in the English language.
Columbia Guide to Online Style
The world of online writing evolves so quickly and is of
such vital importance that it requires a specialized guide, one that focuses
primarily on this complex dimension of academic writing instead of trying to do
everything at once, as other style guides attempt to do. The Columbia Guide to
Online Style is such a tool, a comprehensive guide to citing and producing
academic documents and resources that are stored electronically. Working as an
interdisciplinary template that can be applied to a variety of already
established style guides such as APA, Chicago, and MLA, it offers advice that
can be adapted to whichever style a particular discipline, instructor,
colleague, journal, editor, or publisher has selected.
Computer Stupidities
A large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless
computer users.
Guide for Writing Research Papers
A research paper presents the results of your
investigations on a selected topic. Based on your own thoughts and the facts and
ideas you have gathered from a variety of sources, a research paper is a
creation that is uniquely yours. The experience of gathering, interpreting, and
documenting information, developing and organizing ideas and conclusions, and
communicating them clearly will prove to be an important and satisfying part of
your education.
Guide to Grammar and Style
These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and
explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage by Jack Lynch,
Assistant Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers
University . The entries here are of two types: specific articles on usage, and
more general articles on style.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Great site for learning how to write and correctly use
grammar. This site is maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling at
Capital Community College and for the general online public.
Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides
Your one place to access any and all print materials, i.e.
newspapers, magazines, journals, style guides, etc. This site is compiled and
edited by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa.
Karla's Guide to Journalism Resources
Reference works, Almanacs, Maps, Atlases & Geopolitical Resources, Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Converters, Calculators and Fact Finders, Style and Writing
Guides. **WHEW**
LearnHowToWrite.com
Free writing lessons that range from short sentences to verbs and nouns. This
site is maintained by Mark McCracken, English, Finance and Accounting Trainer at
the Interschool in Osaka , Japan.
Merriam-Webster OnLine
The WWWebster Dictionary is based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary,
Tenth Edition. The on-line dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the
Collegiate® Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases,
Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also
includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables. Selected sections of the Collegiate®
Dictionary, notably the Signs and Symbols section, are omitted from the
WWWebster Dictionary because they include special characters and symbols that
cannot readily be reproduced in HTML.
Netiquette
The word "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by
authority to be required in social or official life." This link will take you to
the WWW version of the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea, published by Albion
Books.
Net Lingo
NetLingo is an online dictionary about the Internet. It contains thousands of
words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World
Wide Web.
OneLook Dictionaries: The Faster Finder
There are a number of good dictionaries on the Internet. However, a person
sometimes needs to look at several before finding exactly what they need. This
page is intended to make the above process quick and painless. The purpose is to
encourage people to use Internet glossaries and dictionaries.
ROGET'S Thesaurus Search
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02
(supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and the
Gutenberg Project. Internal cross references are represented as clickable
hyper-text links.
The Universal Library
Access to all human knowledge - anytime, anywhere. Hosted by Carnegie Mellon
University . Access, query, and print any book, magazine, newspaper, video, data
item, or reference document - regardless of language - using speech, touch
screen, or gestures.
Webopedia
An online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Wordsmyth is an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes
the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search
capabilities. Both the Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus and the
Wordsmyth web site reflect the philosophy that word meanings are not simply
equations that one can get right or get wrong, but rather grow out of and depend
on specific uses and contexts.
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