WRITING LABS THAT OFFER MATERIALS ONLINE

University of Victoria Online Resources for Writers: http://hildegard.engl.uvic.ca/writers/resources.htm

Probably the best of all Canadian and American websites for student writers. Very complete and easy to use. Offers quizzes and cross-references. Its best feature is the Guide to Grammar and Writing: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Purdue University Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Offers many easy-to-use handouts on grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, outlining, referencing, etc. Many examples. One of the best writers' resources on the Web.

Writer's Workshop: University of Illinois: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/grammarmenu.htm
Offers a useful grammar handbook.

REFERENCES

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: http://www.bartleby.com/99/
Search this to find a quotation on almost any subject.

Famous Quotations Network: http://www.famous-quotations.com/
Another source of quotations, found by author or subject. Also proverbs from many countries.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988): http://www.bartleby.com/63/
Over 10,000 quotations.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition (1995): http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Offers 35,000 synonyms. Has search capabilities and hyperlinks to categories of meaning. Very easy to use.

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (2000): http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Has over 50,000 online articles, with over 80,000 cross-references. Easy-to-use search capabilities.

Yourdictionary.com: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
A mammoth website offering online dictionaries and a thesaurus in English, as well as many foreign-language dictionaries.

Chatter's Jargon Dictionary (See Process and Practice p. 92): http://www.stevegrossman.com/jargpge.htm
Lists the most widespread chat-room abbreviations for phrases.

The King's English, Second Edition, by H.W. Fowler: http://www.bartleby.com/116/
The full text of the classic work on grammar, punctuation, style and usage.

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.: http://www.bartleby.com/141/
The classic guide to correct and strong writing. Concise. Has helped many writers.

The American Heritage Book of English Usage: http://www.bartleby.com/64/
A more recent online guide to grammar, style, word choice, etc. Has a good section on e-mail.

MLA Guidelines for Electronic Sources (See p. 244 of Process and Practice): http://www.mla.org
An abbreviated version of principles found in the printed MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

WEB SEARCH ENGINES

AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/
Huge database. Offers Boolean search capabilities as well as searches in "natural language" mode.

Canada.com: http://canada.com/home/
Canada's largest search engine, with Boolean search capability and access to the Southam newswires.

Canoe: http://www.canoe.com/Canoe/home.html/
Another Canadian portal.

Hotbot: http://hotbot.lycos.com/
Has a very large database, updated often. Offers especially good search options.

Northern Light: http://www.northernlight.com/
Will check over 150 million web pages. A good place to start if your topic is large or general, because it gathers results into "folders" of related sites. Also see Northern Light General Help: http://www.northernlight.com/docs/gen_help_where.html

Yahoo! www.yahoo.com
A "directory", whose structure of categories permits fast focussing down to your desired topic.

Information site on more search engines: http://www.kcpl.lib.mo.us/search/srchengines.htm

METASEARCH ENGINES:

(These will organize searches through other search engines and databases all at once. While they search broadly, though, they search less deeply.)

Dogpile: www.dogpile.com

Mamma: http://www.mamma.com/

MetaCrawler: http://www.metacrawler.com/

WEBSITE EXAMPLES GIVEN IN PROCESS AND PRACTICE, PAGE 221:

National Rifle Association: http://www.nra.org

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: http://www.cic.gc.ca/