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Sales Letters
http://www.provensalesletters.com
"21 Proven Sales Letters. For the salesperson that wants to write - but
can't get started."
Dictionaries
http://nhd.heinle.com
"This online dictionary contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the
best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English."
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/dictionary
Allows you to search four different online dictionaries,
including Cambridge International Dictionary of English,
Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge
International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge
International Dictionary of Idioms.
http://www.oed.com
The online version of the seminal dictionary of the
English language, the Oxford English Dictionary.
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Web of Online Dictionaries. Includes an index of
100s of online dictionaries in a variety of languages.
Dictionary (subscription)
Dictionary and Thesaurus Combinations
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Web site by Merriam-Webster that features a dictionary
and thesaurus.
http://www.wordsmyth.net
American English dictionary and thesaurus.
http://websters.searchopolis.com
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn
"WordNet(r) is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired
by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory." Developed
by Princeton University.
http://www.thesaurus.com
http://www.dictionary.com
Related sites that include links to writers' resources,
games, word information, and more.
Encyclopedias
http://www.encyclopedia.com
More than 14,000 articles searchable by keyword or
phrase.
http://encarta.msn.com
Microsoft's online encyclopedia with over 16,000
free articles and over 42,000 with a subscription.
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica
Encyclopedia Mythica, an online encyclopedia for
mythology, legend and folklore.
Biographical Dictionaries
http://www.biography.com
Web site based on the popular A&E Biography series.
Includes biographies of over 25,000 personalities.
Quotations
http://www.quoteworld.org
Over 13,000 quotes, in association with Amazon.com.
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html
"The collections presented here contain thousands of quotations, old and
new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and maybe even a little
profound. This site is intended as a place for enjoyment, enlightenment, exploration
and general reference."
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/index.htm
"This page was originally developed as a catalog of Quotation resources
on the Internet; it has since evolved into a large-scale Quotation site with
many original resources." Includes a quote search.
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/msr/quote.html
Personal quote page conveniently divided into topics.
http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml
"The Quotations Archive is a comprehensive, searchable database of general
purpose quotations. Visitors to the web site can browse through quotations
by subject, alphabetically by author, or they can use the search engine to
generate a listing of quotations containing selected keywords or by a certain
author."
Rhyming Dictionaries
http://www.togethersoftware.com/search.asp
The Word Together Rhyming Dictionary.
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn
The Lexical FreeNet connected thesaurus that includes
the Semantic Rhyming Dictionary among other ways
to connect words.
http://www.rhymer.com/
WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary capable of
searching for end rhymes, last syllable rhymes, double
rhymes, beginning rhymes, and first syllable rhymes.
References and Writing Help
http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.htm
William Strunk's classic, The Elements of Style.
http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/frules.html
11 rules of writing.
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
A Guide to Grammar and Writing.
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
Online English Grammar: a guide searchable through
a table of contents.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing
Advice on grammar and style from Jack Lynch, an English
professor at Rutgers University.
http://www.pipeline.com/~sfauthor/learn.html
Site with links and reviews of sites, books, and
magazines that help authors write.
http://www.teleport.com/~bjscript
Site includes essays on dramatic writing.
http://jade.ccccd.edu/cobb/sentences.html
A web site titled Variety in Sentence Structure.
http://www.webgrammar.com
A site devoted entirely to grammar.
http://www.theslot.com
A newspaper copyeditor built this site, so pay attention.
Software
http://writersstore.com
Online store where you can choose from an extensive
list of screenwriting, story development and reference
software.
http://www.novalearn.com
Writers' online resource center which features software
reviews and shareware (free downloads).
http://scriptware.com
The Journal of the Writers Guild of America West
said, "Scriptware is the best overall program
for scriptwriters on the market today.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/writesoftware
A Guide to the Best Writer's Software for Every Kind
of Writing (from screenwriting and novel writing
to resume writing and speech writing and every kind
in between).
http://www.novalearn.com/dp
Software Dreampack for writers
Dreampack for Writers is a collection of 57 labor-saving
and recreational programs that help writers organize,
work, play, learn, and get the most from their PC.
Copyright Information
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
The U.S. Copyright Office home page.
http://www.rbs2.com/copyr.htm
An essay on U.S. Copyright laws.
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/comm106/106copy.html
Copyright basics from the American Bar Association.
 
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