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Your Dictionary
yourDictionary.com claims to have the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages).The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, a |
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WordSmith
Home of "A.Word.A.Day ", "Internet Anagram Server", "The Wordserver", "Listat " |
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Plain English Campaign
Since 1979, we have been campaigning against gobbledygook, jargon and misleading public information. We have helped many government departments and other official organisations with their documents, reports and publications. We believe that everyone |
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MediLexicon
MediLexicon contains searches, information, news and resources for the medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare professional. |
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American Medical Dictionary
American medical dictionary. |
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LEO: Literacy Education Online
This site is a nicely organised and fairly extensive collection of self-help documents on the writing process, organisation and cohesion, grammar, punctuation, citing sources, stylistic concerns, different types of writing, etc. The site makes use of |
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HyperStat Online
A concise statistics textbook. Each chapter also contains extensive links to other resources. |
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HONselect
HONselect is Health On The Net (HON)'s new medical and health browser/search engine. Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) hierarchy, HONselect includes four types of information content: web sites (using HON's MedHunt); scientific articles (using Pu |
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Gunning Fog Index
One source that shows how to calculate the index. Click on the 'next slide' button to see how readability is related to the score |
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The Blue Book
An easy-to-use reference guide and workbook which is now available as an on-line resource. This is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, and editors. Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper E |
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Free Medical Journals
Definitely check out this site - a relatively new feature that is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Net. Journals that offer free full-text articles are linked; those that only offer abstracts to non-subscribers a |
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Encyclopedia of English Grammar and Word Grammar
By Richard Hudson. Freely available for consulting or downloading from the Net (WordPerfect or MS-Word). All the downloadable versions are in hypertext form, so that you can move around the document by clicking on cross-links (in addition, of course, |
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StatSoft
Statistics is presented as a bunch of nuggets. This makes the book impossible to read as a text, but quite useful as a reference. |
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Dictionary and Translation
Links to a number of dictionary and translation sites. |
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Bartleby - Strunk's Style Guide
English usage in a nutshell. This site contains Strunk’s classic reference book. The Elements of Style Ð a must-have for any writer. Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, it briefly outlines the principal requirements of plain E |
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ACS Style Guide
A chapter from the American Chemical Society (ACS) style guide with tips on writing a scientific paper. There are guidelines for text length, preparation of figures and tables, and instructions on how to submit your paper. |
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Acronym Finder
The web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms with 190,000+ definitions. |
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Merck Manual
Merck is committed to bringing out the best in medicine. As part of that effort, Merck has created The Merck Manuals, a series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers. As a service to the community, the content of The Manuals is n |
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Biotech Glossary
An online glossary of biotech terminology. |
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