Advice On Research & Writing

Art Deadline- the art world's source for income and exhibition opportunities

Assignment Calculator - gives you a sample time table specifically for your assignment

Bad Puns - a search engine of terrible puns

Biographies - search for biographies online

Board Reader - allows users to search multiple message boards simultaneously

Canadian Newspapers - a guide

Copyright Board of Canada

Creative Quotations - Search 50,000 quotations by author, keyword & source.  All quotes are carefully selected to encourage creative thinking. This is an excellent research tool for students, teachers and other professionals.

Dictionaries -  search dictionaries online

Dictionary.com - grammar, usage, and style

Editor and Publisher - magazine covering the newspaper industry in North America

An Elvin Dictionary

Encyclopedias - search encyclopedias online

English Language Tools -  search English language tools online

Etymonline - find out what words meant in the old days

Gender Genie - tells you what gender a piece of writing is

Guide to Grammar and Style - tools for the writer

Guide to Grammar and Writing - a writer's tool

Hamilton Public Library - Hamilton, Ontario

Heteronyms - all about them

History of Copyright - A Critical Overview

How to Query by Email

Instant Muse - Story Starter

Internet Public Library - providing library services to internet users

Jargon Dictionary - what does all that jargon mean?

KYVL - more writing lessons for teachers or anyone who wants to learn

Language Arts - exercises for grades 3-9

Lit-Electric- Your guide to the literary life in South West Ontario.

Many Things - An Interesting Way to Study English Sentence Patterns

National Library of Canada - "knowledge within reach"

News Index - original news only search engine

Omniglot - a guide to writing systems

One Look Dictionaries - Search dictionary web sites for words and phrases

OWL Handouts- study sheets for writers

Perspective Vs. Point Of View

Phrontistery - a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words

Pseudo Dictionary

Questia - the world's largest online library

Reference Desk - Grammar, usage, and style

Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors - writing resources

Rhetoric - A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Rhetoric Forest - making sense of rhetoric

Rhyme Zone - find rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more

Scholastic.com - writing with writers

The Surviving Small Press - Starting a Magazine

Speech Bank - growing database of 5000 versions of public speeches, sermons...

Standard Freelance Editorial Agreement

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries - lots of different, strange, and unusual dictionaries

Student's Resources - lots of stuff for writers

Thesaurus of Phrases and Quotes - search phrases and quotes online

Toronto Public Library  - Toronto, Ontario

Translation Dictionaries  - search online translation dictionaries

Web Copyright - Intellectual property laws apply to Web sites

Word Counter - counts the words in a document for you

Word Wizards - comprehensive compendium of online, made-in-Canada language tools