Reference Sites

DICTIONARIES

www.dictionary.com

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ (access to 1500 online dictionaries)

www.m-w.com

THESAURUSES

www.m-w.com

 www.thesaurus.com

http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/

GRAMMAR GUIDES

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar

http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/ised783/Writing/comerrors.html

http://www.grammarbook.com

http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm (younger students)

http://englishplus.com/grammar/index.htm

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/

http://www.webgrammar.com/grammar.html

 

QUOTATIONS

http://www.quotationspage.com/

http://www.bartleby.com/100/

http://www.brainyquote.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

STYLE MANUAL

         www.bartleby.com/64

 

MLA CITATION GUIDE

www.noodletools.com/quickcite

 

More Useful Sites

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jbh/author.html

http://www.phschool.com/atschool/literature/author_biographies/

http://www.americanwriters.org/

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS

http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

 

HANDBOOK OF RHETORICAL DEVICES

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm

 

ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINES

http://www.theatlantic.com/

http://www.bookmagazine.com/

http://www.newyorker.com/

 

POETRY

http://www.poets.org/npm/

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords

 

IDIOM/PHRASE ORIGINS

http://www.mcdougallittell.com/disciplines/_lang_arts/idiom/idiom.cfm

http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm

http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

http://www.newslab.org/terrorgloss.htm

WORD ORIGINS

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.htm

 

 

 

RHYMING DICTIONARY

http://www.rhymezone.com/

 

SYMBOL DICTIONARY

http://www.symbols.com/index/wordindex-a.html

 

SHAKESPEARE

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/intro.htm

ftp://ftp.cirr.com/pub/SCRIBE/Stage/Toinsult.Txt