Writing Links

General	Online	Writer's Pages

	Dictionaries

General

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia "The salt in the educational stew" Wikipedia is a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. At first glance this site is useful for teachers wanting to use authentic assessment in their classrooms. Students or groups of students can easily become "expert" in a narrow area and submit articles to the encyclopedia. This use is suitable for content classes and language arts classes across the curriculum. Classes could start by editing existing articles. While practising grammar and spelling and reviewing content, they would be making a real contribution to the community. Importantly, they would learn that you can always edit and improve writing. The site is vehicle for integrating language arts objectives into all curriculum areas. Community practice is to accept article stubs (narrowly focused or incomplete articles.) They expect that others will build on these articles and over time comprehensive discussions of the topic (a perfect article) will evolve. [The opening quote is mine. The uses of this site in education are limited only by the imagination.]
(http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia)

Ace Writing A resource for teachers and students to hone their writing skills. Writing process, thesis statement, problem/solution, details, compare/contrast are some of the topics covered. (http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/)

Online Writing Lab (OWL), Writing a Research Paper Step by step, how to write a research paper, from the superb Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University. (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/) A list of other online tutorials can be found at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/index.html

Young Authors' Workshop The purpose of these pages is to provide middle school students (about Grades 4 through 7) with links to online resources that will take them step by step through the writing process. The steps in this process are those used in Writer's Workshop. http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/

Literacy Web Australia This is a teachers resource that reports on a variety of innovative projects directed to improving literacy. (http://www.schools.ash.org.au/litweb/)

Published! How to reach writing success. Marcia Yudkin's Free Advice on Getting Published and Making a Living as a Writer (http://www.yudkin.com/publish.htm)

Electronic Plagarism Seminar Not my little angels!!! Discussion, prevention, and detection. (http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism.htm)

Editor and Publisher Online newsmagazine for writers, editors, and publishers.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/index.jsp

Professional Writers Association of Canada The Professional Writers Association of Canada represents professional freelance writers working in Canada's magazine, newspaper, corporate writing, goverment writing, and book publishing industries.(http://pwac.ca/)

WritersDigest.com : 101 Best Sites for Writers (http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites_2000/)

Writing-World.com Resourses and newsletter for serious writers. (http://www.writing-world.com/)

WritersWeekly.com The highest-circulation freelance writing ezine in the world (http://www.writersweekly.com/)

Errant Dreams You've played role playing games. Errant Dreams contains hundreds of articles and reviews, several blogs, and thousands of links for writers, roleplayers (originally tabletop/pen and paper and more recently MMORPGs), and cooks. (http://www.errantdreams.com/)

The Poynter Institute is a journalism school. It publishes research about journalism online and off. One of their resources is a page with resources for journalism teachers. Also, the site supports media awareness instruction. (http://www.poynter.org/quickclick/jteach.htm)

AbsoluteWrite.com This is an eclectic site offering newsletters, market updates, and writing tips. (http://www.absolutewrite.com)

The Book of Zines This is the author's site for the Book of Zines. The site has a wealth of information for writers who want to publish a personal magazine in print or electronically. Zines have made it to mainstream television, CBC anyway, in Our Hero (http://www.ourhero.tv/) The protagonist, Kale, publishes a zine that helps her sort out her life. (http://www.zinebook.com/)

AllReaders.com Choose from hundreds of plot, theme, character, and setting options to find precisely what you're looking for! This site allows the user to search published books and films for the foregoing. Also, the site offers reviews of current books. This site is useful for building a reading list or just seeing who has used your plot before. (http://www.allreaders.com/)

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Online Writing

Writing for many interest levels. Clear, usable content is easily created by deliberating writing for many different levels of reader interest. Every person has a certain level of interest in every piece of information. A writer should help each reader get their desired level of information as quickly as possible. Knowledge of and writing to these levels will increase the satisfaction of all readers. (http://www.e-gineer.com/articles/web-writing-for-many-interest-levels.phtml)

From Plain English to Global English Make your documents easy for EFL users to read and understand, and communicate successfully with people all over the world. About one billion people use English as a foreign language (EFL). You can avoid most pitfalls of cross-cultural communication by using global English. (http://www.webpagecontent.com/ra_article/49/3/)

What is Global English? This page comes out of research Rita Raley did for her dissertation (and now book project), Global English in the Academy. There are many fascinating and useful links. (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~raley/research/global-English.html)

Useit.com: Jacob Nielsen's Web Site Mr. Nielsen is an expert on web site useability and design. (http://www.useit.com/)

A practical guide on copyright clearance for multimedia producers. Hey it's Canadian. This practical guide to clearing copyrights on existing works is a tool intended primarily for producers working in multimedia, but it could also be useful to anyone interested in the production and exploitation of multimedia products. (http://www.pch.gc.ca/culture/cult_ind/copymm_e.htm)

HTML Writers' Guild Yes Virginia, web writing is a craft. Resources for web writers and developers. (http://www.hwg.org)

CyberJournalist.net CyberJournalist.net is a resource for online writers and editors, as well as other journalists who use the Internet and technology in their jobs. The site offers tips on online writing and editing, plus news and commentary on online journalism. The site highlights examples of online journalism with the aim of recognizing those who do great work and helping those who don't. (http://www.CyberJournalist.net/)

the-phone-book.com is a site that publishes ultra short stories WAP and the Web. The company accepts stories in 150 word, 50 word, and SMS 25 word or 140 character formats. The site has author guidelines and samples. (http://www.the-phone-book.com/)

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Writers' Web Sites: Experience a day in the life

Michelle's Multicultural World Michelle Young http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/stradbroke/2/index.html)

The Written Word Elizabeth W. Bennefeld
http://TheWrittenWord.home.att.net/

Jim Lynch (http://www.jimlynch.com/)

Science Sites Merry Bruns (http://www.sciencesitescom.com/index.html)

Linda Wasmer Andrews (http://www.linda-andrews.com/)

Bloom Where You're Planted Ellie Kuykendall (http://www.gibell.com/elliemk/)

Heather Grove's Home Page (http://www.burningvoid.com/users/heather/)

Helen Ginger Doing it right This site has a plethora of articles and a newsletter for writers. (http://www.helenginger.com/)

The Official Robert Munch Web Site (http://www.robertmunsch.com/)

Susan Younan Attiyah (http://www.susanattiyah.homestead.com/)

Shirley Mathews (http://www.trottamedia.com/shirleym/)

Shirley Kawa-Jump "I write about love because I believe in love. It's as simple as that." (http://www.shirleykawa-jump.com/index-htpya.htm)

Naiomi Bloom (http://members.macconnect.com/users/n/naomi/)

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Dictionaries

Dictionary of Difficult Words Do you aim to become a member of the literati, or do you wish to be a savant? Do you want to avoid being verbigerative and be succinct instead? Search the Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words' A-Z index of over 13,900 difficult words to increase your vocabulary or just find out what those words really mean! (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/)

Lexicool.com Directory of Translation Dictionaries. The directory currently has links to over 500 translation dictionaries and glossaries. (http://www.lexicool.com/)

Buzz Whack Dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords (http://www.buzzwhack.com/)

Netlingo Dictionary of Internet Words Smilies, acronyms, and shorthand. (http://www.netlingo.com/)

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