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DICTIONARIES AND THESAURI

The Free Dictionary by Farlex
English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms all in one!

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

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


Roget’s Thesaurus II
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format.

http://www.bartleby.com/62/


Translation Service – Babel
AltaVista Babel Fish Translation enables you to translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages.

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


Visual Thesaurus – cool!
By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/desktop/index.jsp


LEARN MORE

Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Easy-to-use reference guide and workbook is available as an online resource.

http://www.grammarbook.com/


Economist Self-assessment
This quiz is based on The Economist Style Guide. Only twelve questions give you a fairly accurate assessment of your skill level.

http://www.economist.com/diversions/stylequiz/


Grammar Games
An archive of daily grammar lessons.

http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml


Newsroom Exercises
Self-instructional exercises based on issues of grammar, usage and AP style that arose at a daily newspaper. They are offered here for people who are learning copy editing.

http://www.longleaf.net/newsroom101/


Grammar Test
From the University of Queesland, Australia.

http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/interactive/grammar.html



Plain English
Online guide that looks at the main ways to make writing clearer.

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/plainenglishguide.html


Spelling Test
Take the test and see how you do.

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html


Elements of Style – Strunk and White
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference is a must-have any conscientious writer.

http://www.bartleby.com/141/


Writing Tips
A dozen essential tips by the publisher of CyberJournalist.net

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/features/writingtips.html


The Writing Tools
Writing tools from the workbench of Roy Peter Clark.

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=80420


Plain Language Network
Formed in 1993 as the Plain Language Network, the Plain Language Association International is a growing volunteer nonprofit organization of plain-language advocates, professionals, and organizations committed to plain language.

http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/





QUOTATION SOURCES

Bartlett’s
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

http://www.bartleby.com/100/


Movie Quotations
Conduct a word search in the Internet Movie Database and find quotes from popular movies.

http://us.imdb.com/Find


Quotation Reference.com
Hundreds of quotations. Easy to Search.

http://www.quotationreference.com/

Quote World
High quality collaborative site. Search a quote. Submit a quote.

http://www.quoteworld.org/

Song Quotes
Online Reference Book of Over 13,000 Song Quotes

http://www.rockwisdom.com/mainpage.htm



WHAT WRITERS READ

American Journalism Review
A national magazine that covers all aspects of print, television, radio and online media.

http://www.ajr.org/


Columbia Journalism Review
Recognized throughout the world as America's premiere media monitor — a watchdog of the press in all its forms, from newspapers and magazines to radio, television, and cable to the wire services and the Web.

http://www.cjr.org/


CyberJournalist.net
The site offers tips, news and commentary about online journalism, digital storytelling, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool.

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/


Gnooks - Welcome to the World of Literature!
Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like.

HTTP://WWW.GNOOKS.COM/


Typographica
A journal of typography featuring news, observations, and open
commentary on fonts and typographic design.

HTTP://TYPOGRAPHI.COM/

WRITING AIDS

Banished Words
List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness has been going strong since 1976.

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/


Clichés Translated
Clichés, sayings, euphemisms, phrases and figures of speech translated into plain English.

http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp


Grammar and Style
A miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage put together by Rutgers University professor Jack Lynch.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Writing/


Misspelled Words
100 most often mispelled misspelled words in English.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html


Plain English – Alternative Words
This guide gives hundreds of plain English alternatives to the pompous words and phrases that litter official writing.

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/A-Z.html


Proofreader’s Marks
Proofreader’s marks from press-release-writing.com.

http://www.press-release-writing.com/resources/proofreadersmarks.pdf





Punctuation Made Simple
Discuss several of the most useful punctuation marks that you will use as a communicator.

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/


Style Guide – The Economist
This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.

http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/index.cfm


The Sports Cliché List
Assembled from a detailed survey of numerous player and coach interviews, pre-game, post-game, and halftime analyses, sports radio commentaries, television sportscasts, and printed sports reports.

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