Useful Links

Following are links to websites with information particularly useful for writers.

Documentation Style Guides:

Chicago Style Documentation
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html

MLA Style Citation
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm

Grammar and Writing Guides:

Advice on Academic Writing (University of Toronto)
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html

Guide to Grammar and Style
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/

Purdue University Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

The University of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/

Writing in the Disciplines (University College of the Caribou)
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/Disciplines/

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

Biographical Dictionary
http://s9.com/biography/

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
http://concise.britannica.com/

Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

InfoPlease Online Dictionary
http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html

InfoPlease Online Encyclopedia
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia.html

Other Research Resources:

Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org

America's Top 100 Speeches
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Carmichael Library
http://www.montevallo.edu/library

Resources for Creative Writers:

Alabama Writers' Forum
http://www.writersforum.org/

The Online Writery
http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/index2.html

Poets & Writers Magazine
http://www.pw.org/mag/