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Chapter 10. Use the Internet to Improve Your Writing

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This page contains the following subjects:

• Ask a librarian services

• Book research tools

• Dictionary links

• Grammar guides

• Miscellaneous references

• People and professional societies

• Search tools

• Style guides

Ask a librarian services

• American Library Association Ask a Librarian service
• British Library’s Ask the Reference Enquiry Team service
• Library and Archives Canada’s Ask Us a Question service
• U.S. Library of Congress Ask a Librarian service

Book research tools

• ABEbooks
• Alibris
• Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
• Google Scholar
• U.S. Library of Congress Online Catalog
• WorldCat

Dictionary links

• Acronym Finder
• Dictionary.net
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
• Merriam-Webster’s unabridged dictionary
• OneLook dictionary search
• Oxford Dictionary of Business and Management
• Oxford Living Dictionaries
• Roger’s Profanisaurus
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Urban Dictionary
• Wordnik

Grammar guides

• Appleyard, David
• Brians, Paul: Common Errors in English Usage
• Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Conjugation.com
• Oxford Dictionaries concise guide to grammatical terms
• Purdue University’s online writing lab
• Rensselaer Center for Communication Practices’ “Resources for Writers”
• Straus, Jane: The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• The Tongue Untied
• University of North Carolina’s Writing Center

Miscellaneous references

• BIOSIS Index to Organism Names
• Google Translate
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• Refdesk general reference site
• U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology

People and professional societies

• Copyediting-l
• Google list of discussion groups
• Society for Technical Communication
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• SF Canada

Search tools

• ChemSpider
• Google’s advanced search page
• simuSearch utility for Windows
• Wolfram Alpha

Style guides

• Apple
• American Medical Association
• American Psychological Association
• BBC News
• Elsevier journals
• Microsoft
• SAGE journals
• Shunn manuscript format
• Springer-Verlag plus the former Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Wiley journals (including Blackwell Publishing)

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