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to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other
books for writers. Just remember to cite
your sources.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Books, Links, and Lists for Writing
used.
May you find encyclopedias here useful.
May you properly site your sources using the
appropriate style sheet or guide here.
And as is my goal, may you appreciate some source,
some link specific to your field of interest that is perfect
for your writing type, style, or genre, whether it be for
purposes of academic, freelance, or even poetry or
nonfiction writing.
If you don't find any good, new, or useful info here,
hold on. You will.
Hyperdictionary
Wikipedia
discipline, the following are helpful. I know, I know. Too
short a list.
But cut me some slack, huh? I have to spend some time
actually doing some work, freelance writing and literary
writing, so I have funds for us to enjoy the luxury of
these lists.
When our favorite folders are full and we just want one catch-all,
be all, do all resource, the definitive site to visit becomes the
biggest of reference books for writers.
With 20,000 helpful links--which Bob Drudge began collecting in
1995--we can only begin to imagine how many shelves in the
Library of Congress this award-winning free site would fill:
of all diversities. It also gives us the tools we need to
communicate with all diversities. It adds to the universal
nature of music, math, science, and art another universal:
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --T.A. Edison
(and if you have exhausted the refdesk resources), you may also want to check out
the how-to resources page and the academic types/modes samples.
Legal: Give Credit by Citing
Sources
original thesis. You spend a summer shaping a pc program. Then you go online one
day and you see your life-blood on a site with a bunch of cheesy, pitiful ads and an offer
to link to the site. It hurts, doesn't it?
On every page in most legitimate sites, you will see something like this at the bottom:
All contents of www.roxannewrites.com © protected by U.S. copyright laws
It's a sin (academic and otherwise) to rip off full text--or even quote a passage without
naming sources--though it's a virtue to cite the origins of what is now known as
intellectual property.
If someone else said it/wrote it/crafted it, we can't own it. So what do we do when we
find the coolest line (that we wish we'd said), the hottest hologram (that we wish we'd
created), the famous formula or sharpest scientific finding (that we wish we'd made)?
We refer to it, quote it, point to it. We show how honorable and thereby smart we are
for acknowledging the greatness of others, who work hard to generate, create, think,
express, and disclose.
See how I put Works Cited info at the bottom of any page where it looks like I lift,
poach, or copy info? For example, on my Mental Disability Writing page, I use MLA
(Modern Language Association)style, since I am a language, arts, philosophy, and
sometimes media writer.
You can use this or other styles like CBE (for science and net citing), APA (for
psychology, education, and some other science documenting), or Chicago/Turabian
Manual of Style (for news, magazine, and other reporting, for history and humanities
papers).
If you get stuck, email me. I will gladly help you.
So here are the links to documentation style sheets.
RoxanneWrites HOME page for art credits section.
