ENGLISH RESOURCES--Writing

Websites

Databases and Online Reference Books

• Oxford English Dictionary Online

• Concise Oxford English Dictionary

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

• A New Dictionary of Eponyms

• Oxford American Dictionary of Current English

• Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English

• Oxford Dictionary of English

• Oxford Paperback Thesaurus

• Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations

• Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

• Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar

• Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

• Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English

• Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage

• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged

Library Catalog and Internet Search Terms

• Authorship

• Creative writing

• First person narrative

• English language—rhetoric

• Report writing

Reference Sources in Print

• The Cassell Dictionary of Slang REF 427.09 C272

• The Chicago Manual of Style, 15^th ed.  REF 808.027 Un3c

• Dictionaries (many titles) REF 423

• Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing REF 808.027 Sch95g

• Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers REF 808.02 L721e

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6^th ed. REF 808.02 M72h

• New York Times Manual of Style and Usage REF 808.027 N42S

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association REF 808.02 P96APA

Search the Stacks

• 423-428 Dictionaries

• 428 Punctuation

• 808 Writing

Selected Titles

• Bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life, by Anne Lamott  808.02 L191b 

• Eats shoots and leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation, by Lynne Truss 428.2 T775e

• On writing well: the classic guide to writing nonfiction, by William Zinssers (on order)

• Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B.White 808 St89eL

• 2008 Writer’s Market (on order)

Periodicals

• Massachusetts Review: Fiction, Poetry & Essays

• Poets and Writers Magazine
• Tri-quarterly