Writing & Editing Resources

• APA Style Resources--links to APA style TP/1.1 nd help sheets, provided by PsychWeb
• Chicago Manual of Style Q&A
• Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources from the University of Alberta Libraries
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris
• OWL, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, with links to Other Writing Labs and Online Writing Resources
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• Society for Technical Communication
• WebGrammar
• Yahoo! News' Magazines
• Yahoo! Style Guides

Poetry

• About.com's Poetry
• Poetry.com--International library of poetry
• Taos Poetry Circus--An annual event in Taos, New Mexico, sponsored by the World Poetry Bout Association
• Yahoo! Poetry
• Yahoo! Poetry Writing

Reference Resources useful to Writers

• American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996 (searchable)
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 2000 (searchable)
• Bartleby.com's Reference Collection--with links to many more reference works (searchable)
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1919 edition (searchable)
• Biographical Dictionary--28,000 notable men and women
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000 (searchable)
• Columbia World of Quotations, 1996 (searchable)
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898--Giving the derivation, source, or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell
• Encyclopaedia Britannica--with abbreviated articles (searchable)
• Encyclopedia of World History, 2001
• Global Gazetteer Version 2
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus (searchable)
• Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 (searchable)
• Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 1922 (searchable)
• Roget's II, the new thesaurus, 1995 (searchable)
• World Factbook, 2003 (searchable)
• World Gazetteer--population figures for cities, towns and places, images of national flags
• Yahoo's Quotations--with links to quotation sites
• Yahoo's Reference--with links to all sorts of reference materials

Writing for the Web

• Bobby--test web pages and help expose and repair barriers to accessibility
• Adobe Acrobat Solutions for Accessibility
• Cascading Style Sheets
• CSSCheck--checks cascading tyle sheets
• HTML 4.0 Reference
• Link Valet--to check validity of links
• New York Public Library Online Style Guide
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• Web Design Group--promotes the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites
• Web Design Group's HTML Validator
• Web Style Guide, 2nd ed.