Online resources, part 2
This page provides links to a wide variety of communication tools and resources. If you have any suggestions for additions to these lists, please send the URL to Cynthia Lockley at webmaster@awic-dc.org
Part 1: News organizations 
Part 2: Online Communication Tools
Online communication tools
- Alumni Net find old friends from high school and college
- Amazon.com's Technical Writing books
- ARA Content a feature article distribution service (mat service) New
- Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Special Interest Group for DOCumentation (ACM SIGDOC)
- alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb
- Art Deadlines list a list of competitions, contests, call for entries and papers, grants, scholarships, fellowships, jobs, and internships in the arts or related areas (painting, drawing, animation, poetry, writing, music, multimedia, journalism, cartooning, dance, photography, video, film, sculpture, and so forth)
- Avoid using jargon in scientific and technical writing Robert Day's jargon replacement list
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Biggest Lies technical writers hear and say
- Biography Center search engine with 10719 biographies (5362 biographies in English) in several languages.
- Biography find search engine with 25,000 of the greatest names, past and present, at your fingertips
- Biography Information Guide
- BookManager IBM's electronic documentation solution for electrifying reading
- Bookstores online
- Books Online
- Bartleby Library from Adams to Yeats
- Books on tape
- 4AudioCassettes.com
- Audio Books on Compact Disc, Inc. audio books and spoken word recordings in many subject areas, in compact disc format
- Books on Tape sales and rentals of unabridged audio books
- Literature on Tape audio tapes of literary classics
- Recorded Books, Inc. unabridged audiobooks: best-sellers, mystery, history, romance, biography, suspense, and classics
- Austen Audio Books
- BookWire Best Bets Index with a link to insults from Shakespeare
- British Library's Online Information Server
- Chomskybot foggy, semantic mumbling
- Citations of electronic sources style sheet
- Citation Style Guides
- Compose some prose for your love by Cyrano
- ComTech Dr. JoAnn Hackos
- Convert any Web page to Pig Latin
- Copyrights
- CANCOPY Canadian copyright laws
- Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. — CCC Online
- Data Powers of Ten
- Dialectizer
- Definitions and Dictionaries online
- Acronym Finder over 125,000 acronyms/abbreviations from all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
- British to American dictionary —available the 1st week of each month
- Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary (and Guru) can't think of the word? Enter the definition to get a list of words
- Computer dictionary with a searchable index
- Computer glossary from Sun
- Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
- DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
- e-word definitions
- Hacker's Jargon
- International Financial Encyclopaedia
- Latin Abbreviations used in English
- Latin Dictionaries
- Online Translating Dictionaries
- Online Translating Dictionaries at the bottom of the page, under Language Sites
- German-English translating dictionary
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Word of the Day
- Photonics Dictionary
- TechEncyclopedia define IT terms
- Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms; Federal Standard 1037C
- Visual Thesaurus
- Webster's Dictionary
- Whatis?com
- Editors Ink Ltd.
- Editorial Resources a great list of Canadian and American resources for writers and editors
- Editorial Experts, Inc. (EEI)
- Electronic greetings
- Blue Mountain Arts electronic greetings
- Card Central index of electronic card sites
- Castle Mountains postcards
- Celebrity Electronic Postcards
- Digital Postcard create your own
- Diva postcards exposing women artists
- Electronic Postcards
- Electronic postcards from Mountain Travel * Sobek
- Greeting cards
- Hallmark cards
- Celebrity Electronic Postcards
- Elements of Style
- English as a Foreign Language
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- English Grammar FAQ
- ESL/EFL/TESL/TEFL Links Pages (Many TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ELT Links)
- ESL vocabulary quizzes for foreign students
- Foreign Languages for Travelers
- Francis Ford Coppola's Online Writing Workshop
- Grammar Hotlines in the USA and Canada
- HTML Writer's Guild
- Human Languages page
- International Association of Audio Visual Communicators (IAAVC) the International CINDY (Cinema in Industry) Competition
- IUPUI University Library Reference and Research Tools
- "KIDTHINK: Empower Your Child for the 21st Century"
- Language and Linguistics
- Library of Congress
- Literary Arts WebRing
- Literary Search Engine
- Lycos Multimedia Search find images, movies, sounds, streams
- Mega Converter convert Roman stadia to inches and more
- MIL-SPEC and MIL-STANDARD resources
- Military Specifications, Standards and Related Publications—DoD's Single Stock Point
- Museum of Television and Radio
- Palindromes even the URL is a palindrome
- Plain Language Action Network
- Professional organizations for writers and communicators
- Public Relations services from Gebbie Press mailing label database of TV and newspapers, etc.
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
- Reference desk
- Resources for Technical Writers
- Science and Technology Virtual Libraries
- Society for Technical Communication (STC) headquarters
- Spanish Medical Translations
- Technical Writing humor
- Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms; Federal Standard 1037C
- University of Maryland's Book Collection
- Useless facts
- The Virtual English Language Center ALIVE again
- Washington Independent Writers
- Washington Speakers Bureau
- Word Spy
- World Wide Web Resources
- Writer's Almanac, The a daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor
- The Writer's Center
- Writer's Resource Center
- The Writers' Source
Part 1: News organizations
Part 2: Online Communication Tools
