Online Resources

General Writing Resources

• Dictionary.com: http://www.dictionary.com/
• Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/
• Roget’s Thesaurus (1911):  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: http://www.grammarbook.com/

Scientific Writing Resources

• The Craft of Scientific Writing (excerpts from a book): http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/writing/csw.html
• Case Studies – excerpt from the Guidebook to Better Medical Writing: http://www.medwriting.com/1a.html
• Excerpts from the Phrasebook for Writing Papers and Research: http://www.wholeworldcompany.com/phrasebooks/examples.htm

Locating Resources (Books, Articles, Etc.):

• MSU Libraries:  http://www.lib.msu.edu
• Library of Congress:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
• Electronic Text Center: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
• Etext Archives: http://www.etext.org/
• Marx/Engels Library: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/
• NISS List of Bookshops and Publishers:  http://www.niss.ac.uk/lis/bookshops.html
• Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/

General Research Resources

• US House of Representatives:  http://www.house.gov/
• US Senate:  http://www.senate.gov/
• US Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
• The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

For Non-Native Speakers and Writers of English:

• The MSU English Language Center (ELC) and ESL Lab:  http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/elc/default.html

Test Preparation Resources

• ETS (for GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, and more): http://www.ets.org/
• Law School Admissions Council (for LSAT): http://www.lsat.org/
• Improving Your Performance on the Verbal Sections of the GRE, MCAT, GMAT, and LSAT:  http://www.msu.edu/~defores1/gre/gre.htm
• MSU Testing Office:  http://www.couns.msu.edu/testing/
• How to Prepare for Graduate School Entrance Exams: http://www.couns.msu.edu/testing/preparing.htm

Teaching Writing & Computers:

• Libraries, Computing & Technology Training Program:  http://train.msu.edu/ (instructional technology seminars for faculty)
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)’s Clearinghouse on Reading, English, & Communication: http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/
• Wired Style: http://hotwired.lycos.com/hardwired/wiredstyle/

MOOs:

“A MOO is a MUD (multi-user dimension) that is Object-Oriented. It is a remote computer that some call a text-based virtual reality where multiple users may log on and talk and create objects and virtual rooms. If you have the capability to telnet, you could go to several and look at some online Writing Centers and see what is being created and talk to some people there who are using them to tutor and/or teach.”  -- Cynthia Haynes-Burton

• MediaMOO: Telnet to purple-crayon.media.mit.edu:8888. Instructions are given.
• Diversity University:  Telnet to moo.du.org:8888.  Instructions are given.
• The Netoric Project’s Homepage:  http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/~gsiering/netoric/

Journals:

• Computers and Composition:  http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/
• Currents in Electronic Literacy:  http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/index.html
• RhetNet, a cyberjournal for rhetoric and writing:  http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/
• Texas Studies in Literature and Language:  http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jtsll.html

General MSU Resources:

• MSU Computing Service Centers:  http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/ (for information on dial-up, networking, and computer support services, among others)
• MSU Student Information System: https://ntweb1.ais.msu.edu/StuInfo/AppLogin.Asp
• MSU Academic Calendar: http://www.reg.msu.edu/roinfo/calendar/Academic.asp
• MSU Schedule of Courses:  http://ntweb8.ais.msu.edu/ScheduleBook/Schedule.asp
• MSU Ombudsman:  http://www.msu.edu/unit/ombud/

Other Writing Centers:

• Bemidji State University Writing Resource Center: http://cal.bemidji.msus.edu/wrc/
• Dakota State University Online Writing Lab:  http://www.departments.dsu.edu/owl/
• Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• Texas Tech University Writing Center:  http://english.ttu.edu/uwc01/
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Writers’ Workshop: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/
• University of Michigan Sweetland Writing Center: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/
• University of Missouri-Columbia Online Writery: http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/
• University of Texas-Austin Undergraduate Writing Center: http://uwc.fac.utexas.edu/

Related Organizations:

• National Education Association:  http://www.nea.org/
• US Department of Education:  http://www.ed.gov/
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): http://www.ncte.org/
• NCTE Conference on College Composition and Communication: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/index.shtml
• NCTE Conference on English Education:  http://www.ncte.org/cee/index.shtml
• NCTE College Section:  http://www.ncte.org/college/index.shtml
• Michigan Council of Teachers of English: http://www.msu.edu/~mcte/
• National Writing Project (NWP): http://www.writingproject.org/
• Red Cedar Writing Project: http://writing.msu.edu/rcwp/