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Links that lead to off-site pages that make good writing references. See also References.

• Writing, Publishing
• Words
• Miscellany

Writing, Publishing

• Common Errors in English [WSU.edu/~brians/errors]. By Paul Brians.
• "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes" by Stephen King
• Guide to Grammar & Writing.
• OWL.English.Purdue.edu. Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Good stuff.
  • Grammar Handouts
    • Active and passive verbs.
• PublishersWeekly.com.
• Wikipedia
  • Grammar
  • Grammatical mood
• WritersDigest.com.
• WritersMarket.com.
• Writing-World.com.
• YouCanWrite.com.

Words

See also References.

• Rhyming dictionaries
  • Rhyme.Poetry.com
  • Rhymer.com
  • RhymeZone.com
• Miscellany
  • American Copy Editors Society (ACES) [CcopyDesk.org]
    • Resources List
  • Answers.com
    • 'a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality.'
    • Google points to Answers.com when you type in "define word".
  • AllWords.com Multi-lingual dictionary.
  • Dict.org
  • Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com
  • Dictionary.OED.com. The Oxford English Dictionary is excellent but it's not free.
    • Ask Oxford [askoxford.com] is free. Their FAQ is fun too.
  • eLook.org/dictionary/ and eLook.org/thesaurus/
  • EtymOnline.com. 'This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.'
  • Freedict.com.
  • Fun With Words
  • HyperDictionary.com
  • IdiomSite.com
  • Luciferous Logolepsy. "Dragging obscure words into the light of day."
  • Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, thesaurus, etc. 
  • OPDS.org. The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang.
  • OneLook.com. "If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word."
  • Oxymorons.info
  • PalindromeList.com.
  • Palindromes.org. "Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection". Taco cat. Straw warts.
  • Reference.com. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, encyclopedia, atlas, business, legal, literature, medical, etc.
  • The Free Dictionary [thefreedictionary.com]
  • UrbanDictionary.com. 'a slang dictionary with your definitions.'
  • Wiktionary.org. Sister project to Wikipedia.org.
  • Webster.com or Word.com. Merriam-Webster online. Formerly m-w.com.
  • WordCount.org [Flash]. 'WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it.'
  • WordNet.Princeton.edu. 'WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.'
  • WordOrigins.org. 'This site is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (It is not the study of insects; that is entomology.) Where words come from is a fascinating subject, full of folklore and historical lessons. Often, popular tales of a word's origin arise. Sometimes these are true; more often they are not. While it often seems disappointing when a neat little tale turns out to be untrue, almost invariably the true origin is just as interesting.'
  • Words Woe & Wonder. I love style guides and such. This one covers recent problems such as Saddam or Mr. Hussein? (his full name is something like "Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti", i.e. "Saddam, son of Hussein al-Majid, part of the al-Tikriti tribe".
  • YourDictionary.com. Also has links to non-English dictionaries.

Miscellany

• A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems. What I need is better handwriting period.
• Bartleby.com. Great books on line, including Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, the whole of Harvard's 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books", Strunk's The Elements of Style, Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, and all sorts of non-fiction, fiction, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and (of course) collected quotations.
• Book Adventure [BookAdventure.org]. 'a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by the Sylvan Learning Foundation and is sponsored by Sylvan Learning, Inc. '
• CliffsNotes.com. All the CliffNotes are available online! Related: SparkNotes.com, Classic Notes.
• ESL.about.com. English as 2nd Language.
• FanFiction.net. Read and write fiction based on established fiction.
• GradeSaver.com.
  • 'GradeSaver is the only editing service fully dedicated to academic and educational editing, offering professional online editing and proofreading for high school, college and post-graduate writing. Our editors specialize in college application essays, academic essays, theses, cover letters and resumes. GradeSaver is staffed entirely by Harvard-educated editors who will help you reach your academic and professional goals. Our service includes a complete grammatical, substantive, technical, and stylistic revision of your essay or document with a focus on the academic environment. '
  • Classic Notes.
    • Like free Cliff Notes.
    • 'ClassicNotes provides free novel guides with full summaries and analysis. All of the ClassicNotes have been written and compiled by our Harvard essayists. Find detailed summaries, character information, and literature references.'
• Internet Oracle. Words and Quotation sources galore.
• OtherPeoplesStories.com. A collection of short stories, each with a photo.
• PlainEnglish.co.uk. 'Plain English Campaign is an independent pressure group fighting for public information to be written in plain English. We have more than 6000 registered supporters in 70 countries.'
  • Free Guides
  • How to write in plain English
• PlainLanguage.gov. 'The Plain Language Action & Information Network is a government-wide group of volunteers working to improve communications from the federal government to the public.'
  • Simpler Words And Phrases. EG: Instead of "A and/or B", try "A or B or both".
• The Idiom Connection.

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