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Chapter 13: Using the Internet to Improve Your Editing

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”—Samuel Johnson

A language is never in a state of fixation, but is always changing; we are not looking at a lantern-slide but at a moving picture.”—Andrew Lloyd James, linguist

It is often forgotten that [dictionaries] are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.”—Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899–1986)

Software and reference links for all versions of Word

This Web page contains instructions on the following subjects:

Advanced searches

Dictionaries

Editing groups

Encyclopedias and reference material

Grammar guides

Journal publisher sites

Libraries

Reference (bibliographic) checking

Style guides

Advanced searches

Bing advanced search settings

DuckDuckGo advanced search settings

Google advanced search settings

Loud Techie image search alternatives

WolframAlpha

Yahoo advanced search settings

Dictionaries

See also: Encyclopedias and reference material

Acronym Finder

BusinessDictionary.com

DictionaryNet

Free Online Dictionary of Computing

Merriam-Webster’s unabridged dictionary and collegiate dictionary

OneLook Dictionary Search

Oxford Dictionaries’ Wordnik Web site

United States Patent and Trademark Office database of registered trademarks and pending trademark applications

Editing groups

Note that many countries and professional associations have their own editing-related groups, so if the groups I've provided here don't meet your needs, search the Web for such groups in your part of the world using appropriate keywords.

Free editing groups

Copyediting-l

Editors' Association of Earth

Paid professional editing groups:

Canada: Editors' Association of Canada

Society for Technical Communication Technical Editing Special Interest Group

U.K.: Society for Editors and Proofreaders

U.S.: Editorial Freelancers Association

Encyclopedias and reference material

See also: Dictionaries

BIOSIS Index to Organism Names

ChemSpider

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

Refdesk

Teaching Tips “100 unbelievably useful reference sites you’ve never heard of

U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology guide to the International System of Units

Wikipedia

Grammar guides

See also: Style guides

Appleyard, David World of English including British–American and American–British glossaries

Brians, Paul: Common Errors in English Usage

Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing

Conjugation.com multilingual site for learning verb conjugations

Grammar Untied

Oxford Dictionaries concise guide to grammatical terms

Purdue University online writing lab

Rensselaer Center for Communication Practices Resources for Writers

Straus, Jane: The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

University of North Carolina’s Writing Center

Journal publisher sites

Elsevier

SAGE Journals

Springer-Verlag (including Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Wiley (including Blackwell Publishing)

Libraries

American Library Association

British Library Ask-a-Librarian service

Library and Archives Canada Ask Us a Question service

U.K. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

U.S. Library of Congress Ask-a-Librarian service

Reference (bibliographic) checking

See also: Journal publisher sites, Libraries

ABEbooks

Alibris

Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America

ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center

Google Scholar

Ingenta Connect

National Library of Medicine PubMed

U.S. Library of Congress online catalog

WorldCat

Style guides

See also: Grammar guides

American Medical Association style guide

Apple Publications style guide

BBC News style guide

Chicago Manual of Style

Council of Science Editors style guide

The Economist style guide

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors style guide

Reuters Handbook of Journalism

Style guide for NASA history authors and editors

U.S. Government Publishing Office style manual

William Strunk’s classic The Elements of Style


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