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Research Sites for Authors & Speakers
When you are doing research for a book or a speech, it's best to go right to the source.
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Dictionaries
- www.dictionary.com - Check out Dr. Dictionary.
- www.yourdictionary.com - Includes dictionaries for 270 languages;
glossaries of abbreviations and acronyms, rhyming dictionaries, plue specialty gides for nearly 100 fields. This site includes a list of the
100 most often
mispelled misspelled words in English.
- www.OneLook.com - This site has over 400 specialty
dictionaries. Put your word in once and OneLook will look through all of them for you.
- www.websters-online-dictionary.org -
This site gives you background origins, definitions, images, crosswords, rhyming words, quotations, expressions, commercial and
literary usage, anagrams, Internet keyword frequencies, translation and meanings in multiple languages and more.
- www.Google.com -
Google will now define a word. Go to Google and type define:word (without spaces). It will give you links to
sites that will give you the definition of the word.
- www.WordNik.com -
Get started by looking up a word. You'll find definitions of the word from several different sources. You'll also find examples of how to
use a word and related words. Then, you can dig a little deeper. See how popular the word was in a given time period. Learn the etymology (history)
of the word. One of Wordnik's best features is the pronunciation guide. Hear an audio example of how the word is pronounced. What good is
a big vocabulary if you can't pronounce the words?
Thesauruses
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries: Technology & More
Reference, Facts, Statistics & More
- www.RefDesk.com - This mind-boggling collections of links
will take you to the Web's top dictionaries, encyclopedias, telephone directories, search engines, maps, homework helpers, weather reports,
newspapers and magazines.
- www.IDC.com - Insight on e-commerce.
- www.JournalistExpress.com - A great place to begin gathering
information. People searches and much more.
Other Tips & Tidbits!
- Word Spy! -
This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or
"sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources.
- www.Glossarist.com -
A searchable and categorised directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
- www.bartleby.com -
What could be better than FREE books? Columbia Encyclopedia, World Factbook, American Heritage Coll.,
Dictionaries, Roget's Thesauri, Bartlett's Quotations, Fowler's King's English, Strunk's Style, Mencken's Language,
Cambridge History, The King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Farmer's Cookbook, Post's Etiquette,
Brewer's Phrase & Fable, Bulfinch's Mythology, Harvard Classics, American Essays, Einstein's Relativity, Wells's History,
and Presidential Inaugurals - plus much more. Check it out! Use their "Select Search" button for quick results.
- Elements of Style - Read the William Strunk, Jr. classic book online!
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student
and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature,
it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of
usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
- Glossary of Grammatical Terms - An excellent resource!
- Acronym Finder - Need to know what an acronym stands for?
This site is the web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. More than 285,000 definitions!
- CorporateIntormation.com - Need to research a company you are
speaking for or writing about? Type in the name of a company or ticker into the box provided, and you'll get a list of sites
that cover the company. Over 350,000 profiles are indexed by their search engine, including over 20,000 on their site.
- Guide to Grammar - Should you
really start a sentence with "And" or "But? When do you capitalize proper names? Does "its" get an apostrophe when showing possession?
This nifty Web site would make your English teacher proud.
- Guide to Grammar Questions - Plug grammar quetions into
the keyword search to find answers. This site also features general articles on grammar and style.
- Quotation Sources - Need to find a quotation source or find a quotation for your next speech? Try searching the following sites.
- www.findarticles.com/ - Need to find an article for
research purposes? Type in the keyword for what you are looking for and this site searches "all magazines" for similar articles.
- www.babelfish.altavista.com - A fast, no-nonsense
translator for Chinese, French, German, Spanish and a half-dozen other languages. Enter up to 150 words in one language, or even a URL if you want a full
Web page translated.
- www.RhymeZone.com - Composing a poem? Find a word that rhymes. In addition
to rhymes, this site will find synonyms, antonyms, homophones, definitions, or words that match a pattern.
- www.time.gov - Correct time freak? Get a time check within
0.07 seconds.
- The Word Spy - This Web site is devoted to lexpionage,
the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple
times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources. Example: "Shut up" in the right context can now mean "You're kidding!" or "No way!"
A word or phrase that loses its negative connotations over time is called amelioration. We thought you should know. ;-) Updated daily.
- www.Online-PR.com - Put your hands
on dozens of word and quotation online checkers. Truly an incredible list.
- www.PRWeb.com - Post your press release on this site for FREE. They
also offer Web statistics so you will know who is reading your release for $10.00.
- Lake Superior State University Banished Words List -
People from around the world have nominated hundreds of words and phrases such as "you know," "user friendly," "at this
point in time," and "have a nice day," to be purged from the language. This list is an excellent reminder of how to avoid
sounding forced and phony, when you think you're sounding hip and with it.
- www.PRSecrets.com - Susan Harrow's "Sixty Second Secrets" is a quick, easy-read list of
archived articles about promotion, public relations and more. Subscribe to Susan's FREE publicity and marketing newsletter for tips and ideas. A $197 per year value!
- ZIPFind® Central - Your headquarters for demographic data.
This site offers you an online tool to find ZIP codes within your area, population within a ZIP code, distance between ZIP codes, and find "any"
ZIP code by entering a city and state and more. Need to know what ZIP codes surround your location? Find out here. Use the "Demo" form.
- Quotes for All Occasions - More than 45,000 famous quotes by 5,000 authors
from Aristotle to Zappa! You can browse quotations by topic, by author's last name, by type of author and by word.
- Online Grammar & Writing Checker - Here's a great
Website for verifying grammar, punctuation, etc.
- 49 Free Online
Reference Tools for Freelance Writers - Some terrific free resources for writers. Some are dictionaries, some encyclopedias and others
are tools to bookmark to use as needed. I hope you find these links handy and helpful.
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