Tools for Editors & Writers

The Internet can be a gold mine for those who enjoy writing. Not only is it loaded with information for research, it is where you can find tools to help in reporting what you have found. Here are some of the places our writers visit:

• A Word.A.Day (Vocabulary Builder)
  http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
• Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
  http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
• Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
  http://www.bartleby.com/bartlett/
• Encyclopedia Electronica — A FREE service of the Electronic Library, an Infonautics web publication and fee based research repository.
  http://www.encyclopedia.com
• Britannica Online (Limited Free Info.; full access available by subscription.)
  http://www.eb.com/
• Wikipedia
  This free encyclopedia is a special Internet project, written collaboratively by people from around the world. Anyone can contribute and edit articles which may be reprinted under the GNU license.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/
• Famous Birthdays
  http://www.famousbirthdays.com/
• Online Dictionary of Computing Terms (stored at a site in the UK)
  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
• William Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style
  http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
• Grammar and Writing Style
  http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Grammar/
• Hypertext Webster Dictionary Interface
  http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster
• Information Please — An almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia bundled in one resource.
  http://www.infoplease.com
• Library of Congress
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/
• Library of Congress Electronic Text and Publishing Resources
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html
• U.S. Patent & Trademark Search Service
  http://patents.uspto.gov/
• USPS Official Abbreviations
  http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/abbrev.html
• USPS Zip Code Look Up and Address Info
  http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/