EnhanceMyWriting.com:
A Guide to Dictionaries and Other Online Writing Resources

If you don't find what you're looking for in this section, make sure you go to Writing-Related Internet Sites for a complete selection of Web-based writing resources.

• Almanac.com: from The Old Farmer's Almanac. Web address: http://www.almanac.com/
• The Alternative Dictionaries. Web address: http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/
• Academic Info: An annotated listing of the best general Internet sites in numerous fields, as well as a gateway to more advanced research. Web address: http://www.academicinfo.net/
• Acronym Finder: A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military. Web address: http://www.AcronymFinder.com/
• Alexandria Digital Literature: Offers readers the ability to immediately download out-of-print, hard to find short stories, novellas, and full length novels from leading science fiction and fantasy writers. Web address: http://www.alexlit.com/

• BookSpot: The best of book reviews, book stores, reading lists, and more. Web address: http://www.bookspot.com/

• Calendar Zone: Comprehensive categorized calendar catalog. Web address: http://www.calendarzone.com/
• CyberStacks(sm): A centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. Web address: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/homepage.html

• Dictionary.com: Easy definitions. Web address: http://www.dictionary.com/

• Education Review: Publishes review articles of recently published books in education. Web address: http://www.ed.asu.edu/edrev/index.html

• Familiar Quotations: John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (9th ed.), with full search capabilities. Web address: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
• Famous Quotes and Quotations: A collection of quotes links.
• Finding Data on the Internet: Find the information you're looking for by finding the links at this site. Web address: http://nilesonline.com/data/

• Global Research: Resource center for magazines, libraries, newpapers and search engines. Web Address: http://members.tripod.com/~BioEnviroTech/global.html
• Guide to Researching Companies: Contains a great collection of resources for researching industries and companies -- for corporate research as well as job-hunters. Web Address: http://www.stetson.edu/~rhansen/researching_companies.html
• Guides for Better Science Research and Writing: Contains a fairly lengthy bibliography of style guides in print for writing in biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, and math. Web address: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/14-05.html

• Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry: Contains information for analyzing poetry, including poetic types and genres. Web address: http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html
• High School Hub: A great collection of resources for high school students. Web address: http://highschoolhub.org/
• Homework Resources for Teenagers: Lots of great reference material and tools. Web address: http://www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/studyweb.htm

• Internet for College Research: Some great links can be found on this course from Terry Dugas. Web address: http://www.naples.net/~dugast/LIS1003/lis1003a.html

• LibrarySpot: The best fo libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps, and more. Web address: http://www.libraryspot.com/
• Literary Index: Provides both an overview and a review of the major collections of websites of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. Web address: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
• Merriam-Webster OnLine: Look up a definition, pronunciation, etymology, spelling, or usage point in the WWWebster Dictionary. Web address: http://www.m-w.com/
• My Virtual Reference Desk: A great and well-organized collection of reference material links. Web address: http://www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html

• Needle in a CyberStack -- the InfoFinder: a great collection of Web resources for those needing help doing research. Web address: http://members.home.net/albeej/
• Net Lingo: The Internet Language Dictionary: Online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Web address: http://www.netlingo.com/

• OneLook Dictionaries: more than 3 millions words in in more than 600 dictionaries currently indexed. Web address: http://www.onelook.com/

• Phrase Finder: Excellent. Give it a single word and it will give you a list of phrases and sayings that are related to the word in some way. Web address: http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus: Accesses data from the WordNet database, a publicly available resource developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database, first created in 1985 as a dictionary based on psycholinguistic theories, contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more than 70,000 sense meanings. Web address: http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/

• Quotations Page. Find all sorts of quotes. Web address: http://www.quotationspage.com/

• Ready Reference Using the Internet: Consists, with a few exceptions, of full-text sources and data suitable for ready reference. Web address: http://www.winsor.edu/library/rref.htm
• Research Methods Knowledge Base: A comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. Web address: http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/index.htm
• Researchpaper.com: Everything you need for writing a research paper including an idea directory, strategies and tips for getting started and a discussion area to trade ideas with other students. Web address: http://www.researchpaper.com/
• Resources for Graduate Students: Offers advice to graduated students conducting research on the Internet about search engines, searching techniques, managing the dissertation process, finding a topic, preparing a proposal, form and style manuals, exemplary research studies and electronic journals. Web address: http://www.problemfinder.com/
• RhymeZone. -- use it to find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more. Web address: http://www.rhymezone.com/
• Robin's Nest: a great collection of writer's links -- all in one location. Web address: http://www.robinsnest.com/
• Roget's Thesaurus: The ARTFL Project Roget's Thesaurus allows searches of headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus (version 1.02), released to the public domain by MICRA and the Gutenberg Project. Web address: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

• Scholar's Guide to WWW: a well-organized directory of helpful references and resources. Web address: http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/index.html
• Strunk's Elements of Style. Web address: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

• Thesaurus.com: Easy index and word locator. Web address: http://www.thesaurus.com

• Virtual Reference Sites: Links to more than 2,500 of the most popular references site on the Net. Web address: http://www.virtualfreesites.com/reference.html

• A Web of On-Line Dictionaries: Dictionaries, grammars, linguistics, morphology .... links to more than 400 dictionaries in more than 130 languages. Web address: http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
• We Vanquish Your Anguish...: Complete online grammar help to answer all your English grammar questions. Web Address: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbair/
• Writers Free Reference: This is a list of free reference sites useful to writers. Web address: http://www.writers-free-reference.com/
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus: Billed as "the ONLY integrated English dictionary and thesaurus in electronic form." Web address: http://www.wordsmyth.net/
• WWWebster Dictionary: From Merriam-Webster. Web address: http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm