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Developing Our Resources

Ideas for generating funds might include the following:

  • Sell publications through the Society useful to technical writers.
  • Create publications like a local grant funding resource guidebook.
  • Offer services in developing organizational style guides.
  • Sell class project tutorials, quick reference guides, and manuals.

Developing A Society for Technical Writing Library

See the California State University, Chico Website for resources in our developing Technical Writing Library. See the website address for reference. Use the short list below to link to these resources quickly. Other writing resources will be available as time permits. Below this are examples of what you will find at the link.

Technical Writing Reference Aid Links

Grammar, Spelling, Writing

  • American Heritage Book of English Usage http://www.bartleby.com/64/
  • Citation Formats http://www.csuchico.edu/lref/newciting.html
  • Elements of Style | Strunk http://www.bartleby.com/141/
  • Online Writing Center | CSU, Chico
  • Online Writing Lab | Purdue
  • Web of On-line Grammar http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

  • Bartleby.com | Full text dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, fiction, nonfiction, poetry . . .
  • Britannica Online | Includes Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary
  • The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | E. Cobham Brewer
  • Encyclopedia Mythica | World mythology and folklore, and an image gallery
  • Hypertext Webster Interface | Dictionary
  • Language Dictionaries | Scroll down for index of non-English languages
  • Quotations (Bartlett's)
  • Quotations (Simpson's Contemporary)
  • Subject Dictionaries | Specialized topics index
  • Subject Encyclopedias | A good short list from Google
  • Subject Encyclopedias | Annotated list from University of Tulsa
  • Thesaurus: Roget's II
  • Thesaurus: Wordsmyth

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