Acronym Finder "Look up 122,500 acronyms/abbreviations & their meanings. A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations At a loss for words? Use someone else's (but attribute them, of course!) Search for a word and get all the quotes which contain your word. Also, click on a person's name to see all the quotes attributed to them.
Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru) Casey Faber, 11, of Los Alamos, N.M. was the inspiration for this site: "She wanted to be able to describe the meaning of a word, and have the computer tell her which word she was trying to think of."
Common Errors in English from the Department of English, Washington State University.
Dictionary.com "This highly useful commercial site distinguishes itself from other online reference sources in several ways. First, when users type in a word seeking its definition, the site returns several definitions from different, reputable dictionaries (including, sometimes, foreign language ones), allowing users to compare meanings. Second, the site features a Q/A page where visitors can ask "Dr. Dictionary" questions relating to words and grammar. (Individuals seeking to refresh their memory on the rule of "'I' before 'e' except after 'c,'" or wanting to know the difference between "its" and "it's" will find help here.) Third, and most strikingly, the site features a translation page that will translate anything from a phrase to an entire Webpage from one major European language, including English, to another. There are word games, online foreign dictionaries, and links to writing resources here as well." The Scout Report for Social Sciences.
Elements of Style The classic by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White. Electronically published by the Bartelby Project, it includes sections on Elementary Rules of Usage, Elementary Rules of Composition, A Few Matters of Form, Words and Expressions Commonly Misused, and Words Commonly Misspelled.
Guide to Grammar and Style from the English Department, University of Pennsylvania.
Guide to Grammar and Writing An award-winning guide from Capital Community-Technical College.
Guides about Types of Documents from the Writing Center, Colorado State University: Abstracts, Arguments, Business Letters, Desktop Publishing, Electronic Mail, Environmental Policy Statements, Executive Summaries, Literature Paper Thesis, Memos, Poster Sessions, Review Papers for the Biological Sciences, Standard Summaries, Civil Engineering Lab Reports, Civil Engineering References, Electrical Engineering Lab Reports, Project Notebooks, Engineering Proposals, Engineering Technical Reports, Communicating as a Civil Engineer, Communicating as an Electrical Engineer, and Communicating as a Mechanical Engineer.
Guides about Graphics and Tables from the Writing Center, Colorado State University:
Guides to Writing Processes from the Colorado State University Writing Center.
The Heteronym Homepage "Heteronyms are words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently. For example: Lead, pronounced LEED, means to guide. However, lead, pronounced LED, means a metallic element."
iTools: Your One-Stop Reference Desk Gathered all on one web page are dictionaries, a thesaurus, translation and other language search tools, and library search tools for people and quotations; geographical search tools for maps and telephone numbers; and various financial, shipping and internet search tools.
The King’s English, 2nd ed. by H. W. Fowler, published through Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. This is the classic grammar text originally published in 1908.
Merriam-Webster OnLine provides a free, searchable online dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources.
Mindy McAdams' Spelling Test: 50 commonly misspelled words, plus some spelling tips.
Non-Sexist Language Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language from the OWL at Purdue University.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: "a practical, award-winning online writing guide for college students" from Professor Michael Harvey, Department of Business Management, Washington College.
Online Help for Common Writing Assignments and Problems from The Rensselaer Writing Center.
Over 130 Instructional Handouts from Purdue University's Award-winning Online Writing Lab (OWL).
The Quotations Page Read a quote of the day or week, discover a random quote, or search for a quote (select from 12 databases of quotations). The default is the site's own collection, maintained by Michael and Laura Moncur, but you can also search a quotation newsgroup, a collection of humorist Dave Barry's columns, or a database of quotations by women.
Revising Prose 18 basic principles of good prose style, with examples, from the RPI Writing Center.
Roget's Thesaurus You put in a term for which you'd like synonyms, a menu of types of words is retrieved and then, once selected, you get the lists of similar words.
Roget's Thesaurus from the ARTFL Project. If the other one is busy, try this one: takes your search word and finds all the places in the thesaurus where the word occurs.
A Web of Online Dictionaries Quick look up based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, plus links to more than 600 dictionaries in 150 different languages.
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus, " ... developed by Robert Parks, Ph.D., and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. A unique, integrated English dictionary and thesaurus with more than 100,000 entries and 50,000 head words."
Last Update: March 1, 2004.