Writing Resources
Allen Klinger, © 22 February 2002; 17 April 2006
Use a dictionary,
thesauris, word processor, outliner, and presentation software. Three books listed below are very useful, as are online resources: e.g., the reference
1. URL, and links in the following paragraphs.
- Strunk, W. and White, E. The Elements of Style, NY: Macmillan,1972
Strunk's 1918 version .
- Sageev, P. Helping Researchers Write... So Managers Can Understand, Columbus OH: Battelle, 1995 .
- Zobel, J. Writing For Computer Science - The Art of Effective
Communication, NY: Springer Verlag, 1997.
The Strunk 1918 URL automatically transfers one to the starting page
for Great Books Online. This is
an extremely valuable resouce. A pull-down there ("References") leads to
eleven items - Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition;
dictionaries, sources on style, reading and writing.
Project Gutenberg is another source of
online books. It has been in existence since 1971.
UCLA Libraries have the Oxford English Dictionary Online Find Definitions. Another source
yields Synonyms and Definitions.
Finally, the latter also enables Translation
(either way) between these six language pairs:
| (English, French); |
(English, German); |
(English, Italian); |
(English, Portugese); |
(English, Spanish); |
and (French, German); |
Anu Garg runs a list serve with a dictionary service. Here is a
typical definition from that service:
esemplastic (es-em-PLAS-tik) adjective
Having the capability of moulding diverse ideas or things into unity.
[From Greek es- (into) + en, neuter of eis (one) + plastic. Coined by
poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), apparently after German
Ineinsbildung
(forming into one)].
While the daily email is interesting, the dictionary (see below) failed
to find anything for numinous although a hard copy of Webster's Seventh New Collegiate
Dictionary (p. 578) found:
numinous
1. Supernatural, Mysterious
2. filled with a sense of the presence of divinity: Holy
3. appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense:
Spiritual
Likewise
Synonyms and Definitions, gave
a definition of that word. To receive a daily message about words:
Send a message to:
wordsmith@viper.elp.cwru.edu (Anu's email is: anu@viper.cwru.edu.)
Services offered are:
| o A.Word.A.Day |
o Dictionary/by/Mail |
o Thesaurus/by/Mail |
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o Acronym/by/Mail |
o Anagram/by/Mail |
o Rhyme-n-Reason |
The remainder is from that list server.
Please note that the commands should be in the subject line of the
message and NOT in the body. Body of the message is ignored. Send
commands to the address
wordsmith@viper.elp.cwru.edu
If you encounter any problems or if these instructions are not clear
to you, do not hesitate to contact ... anu@viper.elp.cwru.edu .
--------------------Commands for A.Word.A.Day-------------------
To subscribe, make the subject line as:
subscribe
To unsubscribe:
unsubscribe
To get the archives of A.Word.A.Day:
archive mmyy
where mm is the month and yy is the year.
e.g. to get the postings for July '94 subject line would be "archive 0794"
To know more about A.Word.A.Day, make the subject as:
info A.Word.A.Day
--------------------Commands for Dictionary/by/Mail-------------
To find the definition of a word:
define myword
where myword is the word whose definition you want to find out.
To know more about Dictionary/by/Mail, make the subject line as:
info Dictionary/by/Mail
--------------------Commands for Thesaurus/by/Mail--------------
To find the synonyms of a word:
synonym myword
where myword is the word whose synonyms you want to find out.
To know more about Thesaurus/by/Mail, make the subject as:
info Thesaurus/by/Mail
--------------------Commands for Acronym/by/Mail----------------
To unscramble an acronym, make the subject line as:
acronym myword
where myword is the acronym whose expansion you want to find out.
To know more about Acronym/by/Mail, make the subject line as:
info Acronym/by/Mail
--------------------Commands for Anagram/by/Mail--------------
To find the anagrams:
anagram myword
where myword is the word(s) whose anagrams you want to find out.
To know more about Anagram/by/Mail, make the subject line as:
info Anagram/by/Mail
--------------------Commands for Rhyme-n-Reason---------------
To get a puzzle,
Rhyme-n-Reason mmddyy
Where mm, dd and yy are the month, day and year number, respectively.
For example, to get the puzzle for the date August 14, 1994 you'd
make subject line as "Rhyme-n-Reason 081494".
To request puzzle for the day, you can make the subject line as:
Rhyme-n-Reason today
To know more about Rhyme-n-Reason, make subject as:
info Rhyme-n-Reason
A new puzzle appears daily.
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Anu Garg (anu@viper.cwru.edu) | "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in
Electronic Library Project | a rather scornful tone, "it means just what
Case Western Reserve University| I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Cleveland Ohio 44106-7033 | - Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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