Resources for writers

Kathy Hall

Senior Editor
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington

 

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Acronym finder
Find out what those initials stand for
 
Askme.com
Ask an expert and get a reply
 
APA citation guide
A crib sheet for APA style
 
Avoiding insensitive and offensive language
Random House Webster's Collegiate Dictionary offers alternatives for referring to race, sexism, disabilities and sexual orientation.
 
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
 
Biographical dictionary
Chambers Biographic Dictionary (British)
 
BioTech Life Sciences Dictionary
Helping enrich the public's knowledge of biology and chemistry
 
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Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Includes a dictionary of idioms
 
 
 
CEO Express
Links to newspapers, business sites, search engines and lots more
 
Chicago Manual of Style FAQ
Frequently asked questions from our standard style manual
 
Citation guides for electronic documents
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
 
Commonly confused words
A list from Battelle's Pacific NW Lab
  
Computer Currents High-Tech Dictionary
 
Copyright protection
From the UW copyright information office
 
Council of Science Editors home page
 
Counter
This is the one we have been using to track visitors to our site. Here is a cheaper one we may use in the future.
 
Deadwood phrases
Tighten your writing by eliminating extra words
 
Dictionaries
OneLook searches 580 dictionaries for your word
 
 
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Easily confused words
From InfoPlease
 
Editorial Eye
Excerpts from a monthly newsletter for writers and editors
 
 
 
 
Encyclopedia & Reference Resource
Sources arranged by category
 
Encyclopedia Britannica
This site has some free content
 
Environmental glossary
From the National Safety Council
 
Environmental Health Information Service
From NIEHS
 
Environmental history timeline
From ancient times to present
 
EPA online dictionary
"Terms of Environment"
 
EurekAlert!
American Association for the Advancement of Science news about research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology
 
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
 
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Garbl's Style Manual
A former colleague at King County has spent years building a wonderful list of editing resources.
Gene nomenclature
 
 
 
Gregg Reference Manual
 
Health Sciences Photography
Stock photography - also posters and other services from UW
 
Infomine
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections from the Library of the University of California, Riverside
 
Information Please
Biographies and many other references
 
Libraries online
 
 
 
Material Safety Data Sheets Online
 
 
Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus

Merriam-Webster medical dictionary

Overcoming writer's block
From Garbl
 
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Power Reporting
Resources for journalists; includes an environmental journalism section
 
 
 
Refdesk.com
a one-stop site for facts on the Net, including more than 100 grammar, usage and style links
 
Reference tools from UW Libraries
 
Reporter's Desktop
The Seattle Times' Duff Wilson has compiled a list of databases for information gathering
 
Research and writing: step by step
From the University of Michigan Internet Public Library
 
Rhyming dictionary
 
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Sharp Points
From the author of The Curmudgeon's Stylebook and Lapsing into a Comma
 
Spelling test
Test yourself on 50 commonly misspelled words
 
Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Requires UW Net ID
 
Stock photography
 
Style manuals
AMA - American Medical Association
APA - American Psychological Association
Chicago - Chicago Manual of Style FAQ.
Chicago citation guide - Ohio State University Libraries
Citation Style for Research Papers - Long Island University
Columbia Guide to Online Style - Columbia University Press
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
MLA - The Modern Language Association style guide
New York Public Library
Purdue University Online Writing Lab - guides to several styles
Strunk & White - The classic Elements of Style
UW style manual for theses and dissertations (PDF download)
Web - Yale University School of Medicine style manual for web sites
DEH Style Manual
 
Superfund photos
 
Thesaurus
 
Translation service
Translate a web site or writing selection to or from French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish
 
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Using APA format
From the Purdue online writing lab
 
Using MLA format
From the Purdue online writing lab
 
UW logos
 
UW Publications Services
What you need to know from the print shop
 
Virtual reference desk
A link to all sorts of references, including an acronym finder useful for translating agency alphabet soup, statistics, quotations, fact-finders, ZIP code finders and more
 
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Web FAQs for environmental health
From the NIEHS library
Whonamedit.com
a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms
Word of the day
From the Oxford English Dictionary
 
Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation
From Michigan State University (also in Spanish)
 
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Page revised Sept. 10, 2004 by Kathy Hall

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