links
The Art and Craft of Writing
Working Online
Argument
Reference Resources
and Research Tools
Language
Sentences:
Grammatical Choices
Sentences: Stylistic Choices
Punctuation and Mechanics
Academic and
Professional Writing
Considering Disabilities



EasyWriter Resources / Links /
Language

YOURDICTIONARY.COM
http://www.yourdictionary.com
Links to dictionaries in over 260 languages, glossaries in 60 disciplines and professions, rhyming dictionaries, phrase and quotation dictionaries, thesauri, and more.


ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ON THE WEB
http://www.thesaurus.com
A wonderful site offering hypertextual searches of the famed thesaurus.


SYNONYMS DICTIONARY
http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html
Type in a word and this online dictionary will find its synonym.


WORD CHOICE
http://www.bartleby.com/64/3.html
This extensive list from the American Heritage Book of English Usage will help you differentiate between commonly confused words such as compose and comprise, blatant and flagrant, and assure and ensure.


INCLUSIVE WRITING
http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/inclusive.html
This style guide from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers good examples of how to create inclusive writing.


LANGUAGE POLICY WEB SITE AND EMPORIUM
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/home.htm
Links to articles and Web sites on many language policy issues, including the English Only movement, bilingual education, Ebonics, endangered languages, and language rights.


EBONICS INFORMATION
http://www.cal.org/ebonics
The Center for Applied Linguistics sponsors this page about African-American vernacular English. It includes many useful links.


NONSEXIST LANGUAGE
http://www.stetson.edu/artsci/history/nongenderlang.html
This essay explores the origins of assigning masculine pronouns in gender-neutral or gender-inclusive situations and offers alternatives.


INTERNET ACRONYMS DICTIONARY
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms
Lists acronyms commonly used in e-mail, Usenet, real-time discussions, and Web-based bulletin boards, including many acronyms that are used mostly by insiders. If you ever run into AWGTHTGTATA, you'll know where to look it up.



This selection of links is based on the work of Nick Carbone, a well-known scholar of online discourse.


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