Graduate Education – Palm Desert, California

Offers original articles and features about technical writing which includes writing computer manuals. Topics include advice and suggestions for aspiring writers.

Advice on Academic Writing

Tips on writing assignments from instructors at the University of Toronto. Topics range from general skills to specific writing formats and guides for non-native English speakers.

Association for Documentary Editing

Responsible for setting standards regarding documentary editions.

Chicago Manual of Style

Electric Eclectic

Collection of links for writers, and those interested in words and language. Material can be browsed via an alphabetical list, or by category within the 'collected references' section.

First Writer

Collection of resources for writers, including a listing of small press magazines, a directory of competitions, and writing tips.

Guide to Writing Successful Press Releases

Focusing on the promotion of Web pages, this resource provides guidance on how to create effective press releases. Explains how to structure a media release and what to include in the headline, the opening and closing paragraphs, and the main body, with illustrative examples.

Internet Writing Journal

Contains articles on improving writing skills, the publishing industry, journalism, screenwriting, business writing, writing markets, Internet writing, and scholarly articles on related topics.

JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service

The Plagiarism Advisory Service, funded by the JISC, is based in the Information Management Research Institute at Northumbria University. It aims to raise awareness of plagiarism in the academic community by providing generic advice for institutions, academic staff, and students, offering educational tools for students, a portal to external online resources on the issue of plagiarism, and guidance on related copyright and data protection issues. The Plagiarism Advisory Service also provides a link to the electronic detection service and training on its use. All reports are available in Microsoft Word and PDF.

Nebraska Center for Writers

An online resource for poets and writers, including profiles of contemporary writers and information by and about writers and writing.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Aims to aid writers by concentrating on helping students conceive a writing product, rather than giving detailed instructions on grammar and style. Includes information on organizing, revising and editing work and writing various types of essay. Sections are accompanied by activities which incorporate the concepts.

Psychology with Style

A hypertext guide to writing research reports for students and instructors of experimental and research methods courses.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

The Online Writing Lab is designed to offer distance learning for the Purdue community as well as other Internet users. The primary goal is to help writers improve their writing skills by offering a variety of online services and materials.

Society of Authors

Non-profit making organization that exists to protect the rights and further the interest of authors.

Writers Guild of America

Organization representing around 8000 professional writers. Includes information on the craft of screenwriting, writing in film, radio, television and interactive media, links to research sources on the Internet, reviews of software for writers, and contact details for useful organizations.

Writers Write

Includes writers' guidelines, writing and publishing news, message boards, and job listings.

Writing Argumentative Essays

Curriculum unit designed to teach students how to write short argumentative essays. Topics include providing support for debatable statements (or premises) and using connectives and paragraphs in a larger argumentative text.

Writing for the Web

Offers best practice guidelines for writing about online collections, highlighting fundamental differences between Web and print media. Includes sections on audience accessibility, assessing readability, writing for disabled people, and captioning images.

CITATION GUIDES & STYLE MANUALS

American Sociological Association - Preparation Guide for ASA Manuscripts [PDF Format]

APA/CBE/MLA Citation Builder

APA Research Style Crib Sheet

APA Style Guide

APA Style Guide for Electronic Resources

APA Style Homepage

APSA Documentation - American Political Science Association

Basic Legal Citation, An Introduction - Cornell U Legal Information Institute

Citation Guides & Examples - APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago, AMA

Citing Electronic Information in History Papers

Citation Guides - U. of Iowa Communications Studies Program

Citation Style Guides
print & electronic, APA, MLA, AAA, Chicago, Turabian styles in HTML & PDF

Citation Style Guides - American U Library
APA, MLA, Turabian/Chicago Manual, APSA - Am Poli Sci Assn, AAA - Am Anth Assn, ASA - Am Soc Assn, CBE - Council of Biology Editors

Citing Electronic Sources

Citing Government Documents

Columbia Guide to Online Style

Elements of Style - William Strunk

Film Studies - American University Library
databases, links, film & video organizations, mediagraphies, citation styles, research a film or filmmaker, cross-cultural film guide

Finding and Using Online Images - Simon Fraser U Library

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

IPL - Internet Public Library - Style & Writing Guides

Legal Research and Citation Style in USA

MLA Citation Builder

MLA Home Page

MLA Style Guide

Online Citation Styles
MLA | APA | Chicago | CBE | links

Online Writing Lab - Handouts and Materials for Students and Teachers
writing guides, MLA style

A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources
links, style guides, research guide

NEWS LINKS FOR WRITERS

AssignmentEditor.com - the newsroom home page for true news junkies
Google News - search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources
New York Times - need to register
CNN.com
Reuters
AP News Wire
UPI
NewsDirectory.com - online English-language media
Newstream.com - need to register
PR Newswire
US Newswire
Latest World News Worldnews.com
Today's Front Pages - front pages worldwide
Latest World News
HeadlineSpot.com - "indispensable guide to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources on the Web"
US-an newspapers - 2,400 newspapers / by state
Links to Newspapers from Around the Globe
Newslink
American Journalism Review - AJR
Newspaper archives - USAn
Newspaper Directories
News Directories
Magazines and E-zines Directories
US Newspaper Links

IMAGES FOR WRITERS

Google Image Search
Alta Vista Multimedia Search w/ Rolling Stone
Ditto - "always on" filtering
Picsearch - "always on" filtering
Lycos Multimedia Search - "never on" filtering
Art News, Art Search, and Art Links
Photo Search Engines and Photo News

DICTIONARIES, GLOSSARIES, & LANGUAGE RESOURCES

AskOxford.com

http://www.askoxford.com/

A variety of dictionary and language tools.

Encyberpedia: Dictionaries, Glossaries, & Thesauri

http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm

Links to a wide range of useful dictionaries and glossaries.

TheFreeDictionary.com

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Offers a "dictionary, thesaurus, literature reference library and search engine all in one.

Internet Resources for Translators: English

http://www.deraaij.com/irt/english.html

Links to a wide range of dictionaries and glossaries.

Merriam-Webster Online: Language Center

http://www.m-w.com/

One-Look Dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/

Probably the best-known dictionary site online.

On-Line Dictionaries and Glossaries

http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html

Links to dictionaries in more than 60 language groups and categories.

Research-It!

http://www.itools.com/

Searchable dictionary site.

Thesaurus.com

http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Search for synonyms, antonyms, or word categories; look up words, place names, biblical names and zip codes.

WordNet 1.6 Vocabulary Helper

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn

Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary/Thesaurus

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

English Around the World

American-British/British-American Dictionary

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/

Translates U.S. terms to British and vice versa.

Australian English Glossary from A to Zed

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/aust-eng.html

Nothing quite matches Australian English for its lively phrases.

American Heritage Book of English Usage

http://www.bartleby.com/64/

Cornerstone's Canadian English Page

http://www.cornerstoneword.com/misc/cdneng/cdneng.htm

Explains the differences between Canadian, British and American English, including spelling, place names, vocabulary and usage.

Dictionary of American Regional English

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

English Etymology

http://eleaston.com/etymology.html

Links to dictionaries of "English around the world," including Irish English, Caribbean English, English in India.

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php

An effort to define every word in the English language with a limerick.

United Kingdom English for the American Novice

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict/ukdict-intro.html

UK English to American English; last updated in 1983.

World Wide Words

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

Devoted to the English language -- its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution. Includes Weird Words, topical words, definitions, usage, phrases, and more.

World Languages

Australian Indigenous Languages

http://www.dnathan.com/VL/austLang.htm

Links to grammars, dictionaries and other resources relating to the non-English languages spoken in Australia (such as Kamilaroi, Ayapathu and Jingulu).

Gaelic/Irish Dictionaries

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~smacsuib/focloir/

ilovelanguages

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

Links to a host of international language resources.

Jamaican/Patois Glossary

http://www.rastagearshop.com/glossary.html

On-Line Dictionaries and Glossaries

http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html

Links to dictionaries in more than 60 language groups and categories, from Afrikaans to Zulu (and including artificial languages and multilingual dictionaries).

Pronunciation Guide

http://ibb7.ibb.gov/pronunciations/

Look up not only the meaning and spelling of international words, but how they are pronounced.

Verbix Online Conjugator

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix

Conjugate verbs in a host of languages, modern and ancient (including Old Saxon, Proto-Indo-European, Swahili, and dozens more.)

YourDictionary.com

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Specialized Glossaries

AbbreviationZ

http://www.abbreviationz.com/

Search for acronyms and abbreviations, or browse by category.

Acronym Finder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Look up 60,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings.

Acronyma

http://www.acronyma.com/

Billed as "the largest acronym database on the Web."

Biographical Dictionary

http://www.s9.com/biography/index.html

A dictionary covering "more than 20,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day."

Bob's Print Guide Glossary

http://www.bobs.co.uk/print/glossary.html

Glossary of printing and publishing terms.

Castle Terms

http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.html

Cliche Finder

http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

An interesting resource that enables you to search for "clichés" by keyword.

Dictionary of Slang

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/

Easton's Bible Dictionary

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/easton/ebd2.toc.html

FAST Glossary Center

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC

List of all kinds of glossaries and dictionaries.

Feudal Terms of England

http://eserver.org/langs/feudal-dictionary.txt

Glossarist, The

http://www.glossarist.com/

Links to a huge selection of glossaries on a vast range of topics.

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

http://www.writingenglish.com/glossary.htm

Glossary of Internet Terms

http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Glossary of Poetic Terms

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

Glossary of Publishing Terms

http://www.picture-book.com/news.asp?listingid=44

Hellatine Dictionary of Bureaucratese

http://home.earthlink.net/~skilton/dictionary.html

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

investorwords.com

http://www.investorwords.com/

Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament Glossary of Terms

http://www.chronique.com/Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/glssindx.htm

Medi-Lexicon

http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/

"A dictionary of over 140,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.

Netlingo: The Internet Dictionary

http://www.netlingo.com/

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues

http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm

Origins of Phrases

http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm

Origins and meanings of hundreds of common (and uncommon) phrases.

Phrase Finder

http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Search by keyword to find a specific phrase or quote, or search for the meanings and origins of various phrases.

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

http://www.rhymezone.com/

Look up rhymes by sound, number of syllables, and preferred meaning.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/smith_W/bibledict.toc.html

Symbols.com

http://www.symbols.com/

"SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang

http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

A fun guide to "detective" and police slang, especially of the 20's, 30's and 40's.

WordOrigins.org

http://www.wordorigins.org

Word and phrase origins.

WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym

An excellent acronym "look-up" site.

Translation Resources

AltaVista Translation

http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

A free online translation tool for words and phrases. (Seems to work well with shorter phrases, but use caution when attempting to use any automatic "tool" to translate longer materials or documents.)

Daily Linguist: Your Personal Language Tutor

http://www.dailylinguist.com/

Online language help, corporate training, translation services, free online translator, and language/dictionary links.

Foreignword.com

http://www.foreignword.com/

Dictionary search tools, machine translation links, glossary links, and a translation forum.

Freetranslation.com

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Here's a handy site to translate texts into and out of English, from a handful of major languages (including Spanish, French, and German). It isn't perfect, but it is enough to help you make sense of a letter, even if all the words aren't properly translated or translated at all; I wouldn't suggest it for trying to convert your own work to another language.

FreeTranslator.com

http://www.free-translator.com/

Offers a variety of free translation interfaces.

Global Translation Services

http://www.global-translation-services.com/

A free online translation tool that provides translation in a number of language pairs, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Russian.

NCTA Searchable Translator Database

http://www.lai.com/ncta/trdb.htm

If you need translation services to market a piece abroad, you can search this directory by language and specialty.

PEN Directory of Translators

http://www.pen.org/page.php.prmID/267

Search for a translator by language.

Pronunciation Guide

http://ibb7.ibb.gov/pronunciations/

Look up not only the meaning and spelling of international words, but how they are pronounced.

Translate-Free.com

http://translate-free.com/

An extensive list of links to sites that offer free online translations in various languages or lexicons, including sites that enable you to hear the translation.

Translatorsbase.com

http://www.translatorsbase.com/

Translator's Home Companion

http://www.lai.com/companion.html

"A focal point of information about resources available on the Internet and elsewhere for translators, interpreters, and all those interested in the arts and crafts of foreign languages."

WinDi Multilingual Dictionaries

http://www.langdy.com/dacc_g.htm

Free online multidirectional dictionaries in 7 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), including complete verb conjugation and grammar.

NAMING FOR WRITERS

20000-Names.com - by nationality/ethnicity
BehindTheName.com >10K names
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Names of Winds
PlacesNamed.com - geographic, also last and first name popularity.

Most Popular Names - USA Social Security Administration - by state, by year, by decade since 1900.
Character Naming Resources (from Ancient Egyptian Names to Sikh Names and Their Meanings)