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Writing
Resources
These resources have been submitted and annotated
by current and former instructors of Rhetoric
1302. They found these resources useful for their
own teaching. You may find them useful as well.
Please feel free to contribute your own resources.
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Online News and Reporting Resources
BBC
World Service.com
The on-line version of the most extensive radio
news-gathering service in the world.
Guardian
Unlimited
A British daily newspaper widely considered
the best daily newspaper on the world wide web.
The
New York Times
The online version of "newspaper of record"
in the United States and one of the top three
newspapers in the world.
The
Washington Post
The online version of the second most influential
newspaper in the United States, the "hometown"
newspaper of the power elite in Washington,
DC.
The
International Herald Tribune
Published in English in Paris six days a week.
This is the online version.
Kidon
Media Link
Provides links to virtually every daily and
weekly newspaper in the world.
World
Press Review
An English-language monthly summary of news
from newspapers and magazines from around the
world.
The
New York Review of Books
The site of the New York Review of Books, the
leading intellectual review in the U.S. Its
interests are both literary and political, and
many of its writers are from the academic world,
but not exclusively so. It devotes many of its
pages to foreign writers and international issues.
The
Nation
The oldest, most intelligent, articulate, and
responsible leftist magazine in the United States.
The
Village Voice
A weekly, liberal-to-leftist newspaper published
in New York City.
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- Merriman-Webster
Collegiate Dictionary
The definitive online dictionary.
- The
American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language(Fourth Edition)
This online version features over 90,000 entries
including 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000
audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color
illustrations, language notes and word-root
appendixes.
- The
American Heritage Book of English Usage
The online version. Look up words and pronunciation.
- Oxford
English Dictionary
The online version.
- On-line
Dictionaries
A large resource of dictionaries, thesauri,
and other writing tools. Dictionaries available
for nearly 300 languages. Speciality dictionaries
are available for nearly 100 subjects.
- Online
Dictionary Net
Online dictionaries on every topic: medical,
computer, dreams, rhyming; and, for every language:
English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, etc.
- Your
Dictionary.com
Features several basic dictionaries, grammar
dictionaries, plus about 90 specialized dictionaries
for everything from medical, to telecommunications,
politics, science, theatre, etc.
Alternative Dictionaries
Acronym and Abbreviation Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Thesauri
- Merriman-Webster
Collegiate Thesaurus
The definitive online thesaurus.
- Roget's
Thesaurus
A fully searchable version of the 1911 edition
of this book of synonyms.
- PlumbDesign
Visual Thesaurus
An innovative use of data-animation technology
to provide an exploration of sense relationships
within the English language. By clicking on
words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating
a spatial map of linguistic associations.
Quotations
General Reference Sources
- Refdesk.com
The single best reference source on the Web.
- How
Stuff Works
Excellent elementary explanations of how things
work; Useful for client explanations.
- Infoplease.com
Combines the resources of encyclopedias, dictionaries,
almanacs, and atlases to provide statistics,
facts, and historical/biographical records.
- Internet
Archive Wayback Machine
An Internet archive containing more text than
the Library of Congress and allowing you to
view almost everything posted to the web during
the last five years.
- Internet
Public Library
A directory of information available on the
Web. Arranged like a public library. Produced
and maintained by the School of Information
at the University of Michigan.
- Librarian's Index
to the Internet
Hundreds and hundreds of links to almost any
topic of interest, all arranged by categories
and subcategories. Easy to use.
- Voice
of the Shuttle
A comprehensive directory of information related
to humanities-oriented topics.
- What
You Need To Know About
How to do just about anything. Searchable database
with information on more than 50,000 topics.
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Search Engines
SearchEngineWatch
Provides Web searching tips; search engine listings;
reviews, ratings, and test of search engines;
and more.
How
to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
Good information on how to choose the best search
engines and/or directories based on the type
of information (images, sound files, text files),
search format (Boolean, case sensitive), or
results (rated by popularity, by amount of linking)
sought.
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Best of the Web
Digital
Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best
of the Web
A great Web directory for a broad range of topics.
All sites are picked and annotated by professional
librarians.
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Government Information
FirstGov
A good directory for all things government related.
Find information about federal and state government
agencies, forms, laws, regulations, phone directories,
and more.
Science.gov
A good site for "authoritative [government]
selected science information" about computers,
space, biology, energy conservation, and more.
FedStats
Provides government-produced statistical data
by topic: statistical profiles of states, countries,
Congressional Districts, Federal Judicial districts,
statistics by geography from U.S. agencies,
and more.
The
World Factbook
Hard facts about every country in the world.
Maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Grammar, Style, etc.
Grammar,
Punctuation, Spelling
An annotated listing of useful sites focusing
on grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Also
features other resources for technical editors.
NOTE: The instructions on some of these pages
contradict the rules in other references, so
the sites serve as good examples of grammatical
style rather than the way to do something.
Elements
of Style
This classic reference book by William Strunk,
Jr. asserts that you must first know the rules
to break them. Intended for use where the practice
of composition is combined with the study of
literature, it gives in brief space the principal
requirements of plain English style and concentrates
attention on the rules of usage and principles
of composition most commonly violated. A must
have reference for conscientious writers.
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Languages
iLove
Languages
Provides a directory of more than 2,000 language
related websites, online language lessons, free
translations, and more.
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