ONLINE WRITING RESOURCE TO HELP WITH YOUR WEBLOGS

Books on line

In for a little reading - here is a catalog of more than 25,000 books with full online text. Includes some serials. Searchable by author, title, and subject and available from the University of Pennsylvania http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/


Dictionaries Online

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/

Cambridge University Press Dictionaries of English, American English, Phrasal Verbs, and Idioms:
www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/dictionary

Cliches:
www.westegg.com/cliche

Commonly confused words:
http://stage-door.org/stampact/traps.html
http://rinkworks.com/words/confused.shtml
http://karn.ohiolink.edu/~sg-ysu/confword.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/writing/confuse.htm

Compendium of online dictionaries (extensive):
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html

Computing:
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
www.webopedia.com

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, definitions from the dark side:
http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?

Homonyms:
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

Information technology:
www.whatis.com/

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

Mispronounced words and phrases:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

OneLook Dictionaries (simultaneously search 963 dictionaries with nearly 6 million entries):
www.onelook.com/index.html

Online Dictionaries
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
www.dictionary.com

Rhyme and synonym finder:
www.rhymezone.com/

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries (one-letter words, words with all consonants, words with all vowels):
www.blueray.com/dictionary/index.html

Units of Measurement:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page


Thesauri Online

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus: (include subscription for email word of the day ... feel inspired to increase your vocabulary?)
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus:
http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Thesaurus:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Visual Thesaurus:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html


Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced. http://www.bartleby.com/65/


Encyclopedia Britannica (a subscription service, but you can request a featured article a day to be email to you - could be useful for you Weblogs!)
http://www.britannica.com/


Want to cook up a storm in the Kitchen? Then visit the spice encyclopedia
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.html

 

 

But the best is Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with content created by its users. All original material contributed to Wikipedia is deemed to be free content under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning that it may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed. Because pages are continually being edited, no article is ever finished.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Cheers

 

 

Rich

 

Dr Richard Knight
Co-ordinator: National Information Society Learnerships - Ecological Informatics
Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535

 

Phone 27 + 21 + 959 3940
Fax 27 + 21 + 959 1237

 

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