Writing Resources

Dictionaries

http://nhd.heinle.com
"This online dictionary contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English."

http://www.allwords.com
Online Dictionary that gives definitions, translates words into five different languages, and lets you listen to word pronunciation.

http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/dictionary
Allows you to search four different online dictionaries, including Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.

http://ukdb.web.aol.com/oup
Online version of the New Oxford Dictionary of English (UK).

http://www.oed.com
The online version of the seminal dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary.

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Web of Online Dictionaries. Includes an index of 100s of online dictionaries in a variety of languages. Dictionary (subscription)

Dictionary and Thesaurus Combinations

http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Web site by Merriam-Webster that features a dictionary and thesaurus.

http://www.wordsmyth.net
American English dictionary and thesaurus.

http://websters.searchopolis.com
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn
"WordNet® is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory." Developed by Princeton University.

http://www.thesaurus.com
http://www.dictionary.com
Related sites that include links to writers' resources, games, word information, and more.

Encyclopedias

http://www.encyclopedia.com
More than 14,000 articles searchable by keyword or phrase.

http://www.eb.com:180
The online version of Encyclopedia Britannica.

http://encarta.msn.com
Microsoft's online encyclopedia with over 16,000 free articles and over 42,000 with a subscription.

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica
Encyclopedia Mythica, an online encyclopedia for mythology, legend and folklore.

Biographical Dictionaries

http://www.biography.com
Web site based on the popular A&E Biography series. Includes biographies of over 25,000 personalities.

http://www.s9.com/biography
"This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords."

Quotations

http://www.quoteworld.org
Over 13,000 quotes, in association with Amazon.com.

http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html
"The collections presented here contain thousands of quotations, old and new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and maybe even a little profound. This site is intended as a place for enjoyment, enlightenment, exploration and general reference."

http://www.quoteland.com
"Find quotations on anything; identify quotations by anyone." Includes a Table of Contents.

http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/index.html
"This page was originally developed as a catalog of Quotation resources on the Internet; it has since evolved into a large-scale Quotation site with many original resources." Includes a quote search.

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/msr/quote.html
Personal quote page conveniently divided into topics.

http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml
"The Quotations Archive is a comprehensive, searchable database of general purpose quotations. Visitors to the web site can browse through quotations by subject, alphabetically by author, or they can use the search engine to generate a listing of quotations containing selected keywords or by a certain author."

Rhyming Dictionaries

http://www.togethersoftware.com/search.asp
The Word Together Rhyming Dictionary.

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn
The Lexical FreeNet connected thesaurus that includes the Semantic Rhyming Dictionary among other ways to connect words.

http://www.writeexpress.com/online.html
WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary capable of searching for end rhymes, last syllable rhymes, double rhymes, beginning rhymes, and first syllable rhymes.

References and Writing Help

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
William Strunk's classic, The Elements of Style.

http://acssun.pstcc.cc.tn.us/~ksnorris/tools/rules.html
39 tips by Professor Ralph Cohen.

http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/frules.html
11 rules of writing.

http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
A Guide to Grammar and Writing.

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
Online English Grammar: a guide searchable through a table of contents.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing
Advice on grammar and style from Jack Lynch, an English professor at Rutgers University.

http://www.pipeline.com/~sfauthor/learn.html
Site with links and reviews of sites, books, and magazines that help authors write.

http://www.teleport.com/~bjscript
Site includes essays on dramatic writing.

http://jade.ccccd.edu/cobb/sentences.html
A web site titled Variety in Sentence Structure.

http://www.webgrammar.com
A site devoted to entirely to grammar.

http://www.theslot.com
A newspaper copyeditor built this site, so pay attention.

Copyright Information

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
The U.S. Copyright Office home page.

http://www.rbs2.com/copyr.htm
An essay on U.S. Copyright laws.

http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/comm106/106copy.html
Copyright basics from the American Bar Association.

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