Webliography of
English and language resourcesThe Text Doctor® is pleased to provide this excellent listing of Internet resources. In addition to The Text Doctor web site, please use these resources to supplement your understanding of the English language and improve your writing skills. American Society of Indexers (ASI)
www.asindexing.org American Society of Journalists and Authors
www.asja.org American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
www.asmp.org American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
www.astd.org Association of Professional Communications Consultants
www.consultingsuccess.org Association for Women in Communications
www.womcom.org Editorial Photographers (EP)
www.editorialphoto.com Graphic Artists Guild (GAG)
www.gag.org HTML Writers Guild (HWG)
www.hwg.org International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
www.iabc.com International Society for Performance Improvements (ISPI)
www.ispi.org Loft
www.loft.org
Minnesota resource for writers National Writers' Union
www.nwu.org Professional Association for Computer Training (PACT)
www.PACTweb.org PEN (Professional Editors Network)
www.pensite.org return to top Amazon Books
www.amazon.com
Purchase books online. Barnes and Noble
www.barnesandnoble.com
Purchase books online. Borders Books
www.borders.com
Purchase books online. Elijah Company
www.elijahco.com
Teaching materials for home schooling. Half Price Books
www.halfpricebooks.com return to top Career Sources CareerBuilder
www.careerbuilder.com Monster.com
www.occ.com Career Magazine
www.careermag.com Portfolio storage for Minnesotans
www.efoliomn.com Salary Information
http://jobsmart.org/tools/salary/index.htm
Salary survey section shares over 200 salary surveys. return to top APA Style
http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html MLA Style
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu:80/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html return to top Copyright basics
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/smbuss/cpyright/circ1.html
Copyright basics. Copyright for articles
http://www.asja.org/pubtips/protect.php
"Why and how to register your articles" (points out that you can "gang" articles on a single application) Electronic Commerce Policy
www.ecommerce.gov
The US Department of Commerce provides information on government Internet policies. Electronic Publishing
http://www.asja.org/pubtips/ewrongs.php
"Electronic Publishing: Fiction and Fact" Copyright Clearance Center
www.copyright.com
Academic Permissions Service efficiently handles collection and distribution of reasonable payments to copyright owners. Protect yourself
http://www.asja.org/pubtips/protect.php
"Protecting your writing: Give yourself credit" Public Domain
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
Contains a chart developed by Laura Gasaway at the UNC Law Library to answer questions about whether a work is still in copyright. To Register a Copyright
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ To Register a Trademark or Service Mark
www.uspto.gov WWW Multimedia Law
http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/ return to top American dialects
http://www.bartleby.com/61/5.html
www.americandialect.org Link to Other Dictionaries
http://dictionary.langenberg.com/
www.dictionary.com
www.realdictionary.com Listing of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Definitions
http://www.erols.com/amato1/AC/
www.AcronymFinder.com/ Merriam-Webster Home Page
www.m-w.com/ OneLook Dictionaries
www.onelook.com/ Online Rhyming Dictionary
www.rhymezone.com/ Roget's Thesaurus Search Forum
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html Word of the Day
http://www.m-w.com/service/subinst.htm
Sign up to receive a word-a-day to your e-mail. WordNet Vocabulary Helper
http://www.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn.cgi return to top The Apostrophe Protection Society
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk
"The society seeks to preserve the appropriate use of the apostrophe in the English language." Comics Plus
natashac@unitedmedia.com
Offers internationally syndicated comic strips and text features on a subscription basis ($395 a year for 150 items offered six times a year [25 items per issue] 800-221-4816. LaughWEB
http://world.std.com/~joeshmoe/laughweb/lweb_ns.html English and Language Jokes
http://www.ahajokes.com/English_jokes.html The Positive Press
www.positivepress.com/
"Good news every day: Daily news stories of human strength, kindness, ingenuity, and perseverance; positive sayings of the day." Stretchware
www.shelterpub.com
Software that reminds you to stretch. return to top Chicago Manual of Style http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html Common Errors In English
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html Daily Grammar
www.dailygrammar.com
Have a grammar tip delivered to your e-mail box every day. Grammarlady
www.grammarlady.com Writing tips
http://www.aci-plus.com/tips/ return to top Clarity
www.clarity-international.net Plain language network
www.plainlanguagenetwork.org U.S. Government, plain language site
www.plainlanguage.gov Return on investment (ROI) for plain language
www.techcommonline.org/shared/special_col/measuring/menu.html
www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/Samples/
www.plainlanguage.gov return to top Bartlett's Quotations
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett DocuWorld
www.docuworld.com
The online listing of global events designed to promote digital printing technologies. Fedstats: Databases
www.fedstats.gov
Databases of statistics and information from federal agencies. Finding Data on the Internet
http://nilesonline.com/data/ Find a Person, Business, E-mail Address, or Map
www.switchboard.com
www.whowhere.com
http://people.yahoo.com
www.infospace.com Internet Public Library
www.Ipl.org
Links to news media around the globe. James J. Hill Library (Twin Cities)
www.jjhill.org
A multi-disciplinary business information center. Library of Congress
www.loc.gov Merck Manual of Medical Information-Home Edition
http://www.merck.com/!!w7TER2x08w7TFTOOcF/pubs/mmanual_home/
Valuable sections of the manual are posted online. My Virtual Reference Desk
www.refdesk.com
Links to countless new media around the globe New York Times Book Review
http://www.nytimes.com/books/ This week's list or 50,000 past weeks. New York Times research site
http://nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html University of Minnesota Library Site Overview
http://www.lib.umn.edu/siteoverview.html
Research resource with an educational slant (vs. popular or commercial focus of others). World FactBook
http://www.odcl.gov/cla/publications/factbook/
The Central Intelligence Agency puts together this World Factbook with information about most countries. return to top Department of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
www.rhetoric.umn.edu/
www.owc.umn.edu
(online writing center)
rhetoric@tc.umn.edu Horton, William
www.horton.com
PDFs of two well-known but out-of-print books on the Web: Secrets of User-Seductive Documents ($12.00) and Illustrating Computer Documentation ($20.00) . Samples and Templates
http://www.stcrmc.org/Samples_and_Templates/SamplesTemplates.htm Society for Technical Communication (STC)
www.stc.org http://www.stcrmc.org/resources/resources.htm Society for Technical Communication-Twin Cities (STC)
www.stctc.org
Tech@Work
http://www.startribune.com/stonline/html/technology/techwork.shtml
"A monthly feature for those interested in technology but not ready for a career in computer programming." Minneapolis, MN TECHWR-L, a listserv for technical communication issues
Send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.OKSTATE.EDU
Put anything on the subject line, and include on the first line of the messages:
SUB TECHWR-L first_name last_name
For example:
SUB TECHWR-L Eric Ray
"This is a very high volume list, often reaching 100 messages or more each day." The Editorial Eye
http://www.eeicom.com/eye/ Writing Resource Page
http://www.azstarnet.com/~poewar/writer/writer.html return to top Business Researcher's Interests
http://www.brint.com/interest.html
A "searchable knowledge map" of contemporary business, management, and information technology issues." Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG
http://www.stcsig.org/cic/pages/links.html
A wealth of resources and links for the independent technical communicator. Getting started in independent consulting
http://english.ttu.edu/gscic/ Freelancers’ FAQs
http://www.stcrmc.org/jobs_freelance/freefaq.htm Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
www.irs.com
800-829-1040
Call to receive a 3-inch-thick-packet of helpful information for setting up small business and home offices, including forms you'll need to file estimated quarterly taxes, or download the forms from the website.
www.irs.ustreas.gov
Visit to see Tax Regulations in English. Rates and salary profiles
http://careers.wsj.com/?content=19990223-glicken.htm
Link from here to Independent Consultant Profile to see a variety of consultant salary ranges. SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives)
www.score.org
800-634-0245
Nonprofit association dedicated to the success of small businesses nationwide. Volunteer business counselors donate their time and talent to provide free, confidential consulting to entrepreneurs as a community service. Free e-mail advice provided at the website. Small Business Information Line
800-268-2678
This recorded system answers many questions and references low-cost services and resources. Small Office-Home Office (SOHO)
http://soho.cch.com
Information on starting and planning a business, getting financing, marketing, setting up your office and buying equipment, hiring, managing finances and taxes, building personal wealth, and selling your business. US SBA (US Small Business Administration)
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html
Provides many free publications. Also can refer you to groups that may be able to give free counseling and resources. return to top IBM's Web Design Guidelines
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/easy/design/lower/f030100.html Web Page Design for Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm
Beautiful site for those already involved with design and typography for conventional print who want to explore the possibilities of web design. Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design
www.webpagesthatsuck.com Web Style Guide, 2nd edition
http:/www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html
Editors I recommend
Liz Willis http://www.lizwillis.com/index.html
Allison Frederichs: www.allisoneditorial.com
Eventbrite recommendation
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