Writing Aids
"Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."
-Napoleon Hill, from Quoteland
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Search Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts in an enormous collection of books in electronic form.
URL: http://infomotions.com/alex/
All Reference Look-up from KnowPlay
Knowplay's dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, World Atlas, Fine Artist Search, Quotations, Rhyming Dictionary, CIA World Factbook, Acronym Finder.
URL: http://www.kplay.cc/reference.html
Ask Oxford
The Online Oxford Dictionary for free use. Use the Compact Oxford English Dictionary to get answers to questions on English, language, grammar, spelling, quotations, and usage. Improve your writing skills or try the word games, crosswords, and puzzles; even learn French, German, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Japanese, and Italian.
URL: http://www.askoxford.com/
Babel Fish from Yahoo
Yahoo's Babel Fish is a powerful translation tool, converts in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, along with many others. Translates up to 150 words at a time. Can be used to translate entire sites, just type in the url.
Bartleby.com
Bartleby.com is a database of thousands of quotes, books, texts, verse, fiction and non-fiction online. Search alphabetically or chronologically for the world's most famous writings.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/
Bible Gateway
Bible Gateway provides a free service for reading and researching scripture online-- all in the language or translation of your choice. They provide advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references, and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.
URL: http://www.biblegateway.com/
Bibliomania - Brewer's Phrase and Fable
Bibliomania contains hundreds of texts of classic literature, drama, and poetry together with detailed literature study guides. Large reference book and non-fiction section.
URL: http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/frameset.html
Classics Archive
Classics Archive is a grouping of (at this writing) 411 classic works by 59 different authors.
URL: http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Use the Complete Works of William Shakespeare to access to the full text of each of Shakespeare's works.
URL: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/works.html
Copyright Office of the US Library of Congress
U.S. Copyright Office is an office of public record for copyright registration and deposit of copyright material.
URL: http://www.copyright.gov/
Copyright Website
The Copyright Website is a portal site hosting case studies of famous copyright disputes related to movies, audio, and high tech to the basics of how to write a copyright notice, covers all related topics.
URL: http://www.benedict.com/
Duhaimes's Law Dictionary
Use Duhaime's Law Dictionary to find legal concepts defined in plain langiage, created as a public service by the Canadian law firm of Duhaime & Company.
URL: http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary.aspx
Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr.
Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. - Serious writers may or may not abide by rules of usage and the principles of composition, but if there is a need to determine the correct way to write something, you'll find it here. modern usage of words and phrases are included as well.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/141/
FindLaw's Legal Dictionary
Findlaw's Legal Dictionary with search function helps find definitions pertaining to legal words and phrases.
URL: http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/
Free Translator.com
FreeTranslator.com is a selection of the best free Translators, Dictionaries and language Courses on the web. Easy to use, and for all languages.
URL: http://www.free-translator.com/
Grammar Bytes
Grammar Bytes is a site of grammar terms, exercises, handouts, tips/rules and so much more. The interactive exercises are a kick, complete with audio that adds some personality. Printouts are also available for students and teachers.
URL: http://www.chompchomp.com/
The Grammar Lady
The Grammar Lady isn't an expert on all aspects of language, but has taught English for over 30 years and is willing to help anyone with a question or problem with grammar.
URL: http://www.aacton.gladbrook.iowapages.org/id3.html
Guide to Grammar & Writing
The Guide to Grammar and Writing is a well organized site categorizes topics by levels that are easy to understand and will come in handy for anyone who wants to tidy up his writing skills. Topics range from word and sentence level to research papers, and there is a Q&A section and an index for searching the site.
URL: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Hazar.com
Hazar.com is a multi-lingual word translator. Translate computer terms between English and Turkish. contains basic Turkish works and numbers.
URL: http://www.hazar.com/
Invitations, Etc.
http://www.invitationsetc.com/m1_ea.htm
Etiquette rules for addressing envelopes for social occasions.
Local Translations
Local Translations is a free translator between English and French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Also provides expert professional translation at competitive prices, delivered fast.
URL: http://www.localtranslation.com/
LookWAYup
LookWayUp combines a multilingual dictionary, thesaurus, translation, and other handy tools.
URL: http://lookwayup.com/free/default.htm
Military Acronyms and Glossaries
For specialized military acronym and term decoding, Military Acronyms and Glossaries. The Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Library also offers a metasite listing nearly twenty online resources for decoding military terms.
URL: http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/federal/military
Miraim Webster Dictionary
From Miriam Webster, their online Dictionary and Thesaurus. Also find here the Visual Dictionary, a Word Vault that includes free word games (sound warning!), and other word-centric features.
URL: http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict.htm
Morse Code Translator
Slightly slow-loading (could be the Applet-charged functions) Morse Code Translator changes the text that is inserted into a Morse code message that you can hear.
URL: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html
Motivating Moments
MotivateUs.com is inspirational, motivational, contains success quotes, as well as thoughts for the day. Also includes motivational quotes submitted by teenagers and correct use of words.
URL:http://www.motivateus.com/
NonStop English
NonStop English is page after page of fun and informative exercises designed to determine and strengthen English Grammar skills. Elementary to advanced English grammar and vocabulary exercises, tests, and quizzes.
URL: http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/elementary-001.asp
OneLook Dictionary Search
The OneLook dictionary's search engine can give the definition from words in its database of over nine hundred dictionaries broken down into several categories.
URL: http://www.onelook.com/
The Online English Grammar
The index of The Online English Grammar lists 120 topics related to English grammar. Educators and Students will find it a solid source of reference as well as a way to learn about determiners and zero conditional verbs and tenses.
URL: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the final word on the meaning and history of words. The online version is more convenient and is updated quarterly with at least 1,000 new entries and revisions. Subscribe for a fee, and the tour of the online edition is free.
URL: http://www.oed.com/
The Quotations Page
If The Quotations Page has over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors, and more are added daily.
URL: http://www.quotationspage.com/
Quoteland
Quoteland is used to locate famous quotes from authors and also offers a searchable database that allows you to search for quotes by using keywords.
URL: http://www.quoteland.com/
ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form by the ARTFL Project
Use The ARTFL Project ROGET'S Thesaurus to search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02
URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Spanish Grammar Tutorial
The lessons in Spanish Grammar Tutorial start with the basics of Spanish and become more advanced. The explanations are simple, and the examples of usage are easy to understand.
URL: http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm
Spanish Schools
Spanish Schools operates its own schools in Spain and Latin America, specializing in Spanish language immersion courses. Offers intensive and specialization courses for business, tourism, etc. As well as courses in Spanish and wine tasting and Spanish and scuba diving. Receive a free brochure or chat withal a representative.
URL: http://www.spanishschools.org/
Tex's (Texas) French Grammar
Tex's French Grammar, a pedagogical reference grammar that combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images. This site was originally built for the students at The University of Texas Austin as a user friendly guide to French grammar.
URL: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
An online interactive dictionary and thesaurus, Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus dynamically generates word maps that branch into different definitions and meanings while creating related words. Exploration and learning is further encouraged through its innovative display. By clicking on words, the user follows a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations.
URL: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the web's free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit, written collaboratively by people all over the world.
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wordsmyth
Wordsmyth is the premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus, containing 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms. And the search engine allows for very flexible searching.
URL: http://www.wordsmyth.net/
Web Style Guide
Web Style Guide is for professionals who are considering designing custom web sites, start here. This simple guide walks through the process of designing a site that is pleasing to the eye and easy on the modem.
URL: http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
Your Dictionary
Your Dictionary lets you search dictionaries in more than 260 languages and about 100 specialties ( business, law, medicine, computing and more). Invaluable for word lovers and those less fortunate in spelling tests. Includes a word-of-the-day.
URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
