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://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn  
"WordNet® 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://www.britannica.com  
The online version of Encyclopedia Britannica. 

http://encarta.msn.com  
Microsoft's online encyclopedia with over 16,000 free articles and over 42,000 with a subscription.  

Biographical Dictionaries

http://www.biography.com  
Web site based on the popular A&E Biography series. Includes biographies of over 25,000 personalities. 

http://www.s9.com/biography  
"This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords."

http://www.ancestry.com 
"Research your ancestry and family history at the web's most popular genealogy site. Resources for beginners and experts with family history software, classes and genealogy databases."

Quotations 

http://www.quoteworld.org  
Over 13,000 quotes, in association with Amazon.com.

http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/index.html  
"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://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.html  
William Strunk's classic, The Elements of Style. 

http://acssun.pstcc.cc.tn.us/~ksnorris/tools/rules.html  
39 tips by Professor Ralph Cohen. 

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://jade.ccccd.edu/cobb/sentences.html  
A web site titled Variety in Sentence Structure. 

http://www.webgrammar.com  
A site devoted to 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://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) 

Language Translators

http://world.altavista.com 
A simple to use language translator.

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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