The Canny Link Directory

Avoiding Plagiarism - advice for using sources.

Plain Language Action Network (PLAN) - U.S. government reference site for use of Plain English in federal regulations, manuals, and all forms of communication to the U.S. public.

PlainTrain: Plain Language Online Training

Contentious - monthly web-zine for writers and editors who create content for online media.

Editorial Eye - monthly newsletter for editors, writers, designers, publications managers and specialists, journalists, and all who care about excellence in written communication.

Fiction Writers Anonymous - newsletter giving news and information for genre writers: tips, tricks, marketing your work, how-to's and more.

Internet Writing Journal - for those who want to improve their writing communication skills and learn to apply them online.

Write News - daily news service covering the writing and publishing industry on the internet.

Writer's Digest

Writer's Place - free, monthly newsletter for writers who want to start selling their work or to increase their present writing income.

Constructing Your Research Paper - quick guide on how to start.

CowDung.com - index of essays and resources for writing term papers.

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Initiative - includes guidelines for ETD creation and submission and other resources for students.

Organizing Research and Documenting it with MLA Citations - an aid to beginning research paper writers who need help finding research sites, organizing their thoughts and documenting their sources using MLA format.

Research Paper and the World-Wide Web - companion site to the book. Features an online study guide with chapter-specific exercises.

Researchpaper.com - collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects. Explore a topic directory and select from over 2,000 research topics across over 100 subjects.

Student's Guide to WWW Research - a guide to Web research and Web page evaluation strategies for first year Composition students.

Writing and Research Online - online resource for graduate science and techology students. Explains in detail the purpose and content of the main sections of written research.  


Rhetoric

Bibliography for Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae - guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

Ashleywilde, Inc. - beat writers block, Plots Unlimited gives you thousands of story moves and ideas.

December Fifth Creations - offers baby-naming and character-naming software for parents and writers.

Fesh - research and development of software and hardware for Apple Macintosh. In English and German.

Idea Center - offering software programs IdeaFisher and Writer's Edge.

Magic of Creative Writing, The - creative writing CD-ROM for schools, businesses and individuals. In Swedish and English.

StoryCraft - Unique software products and courses for writing the "Great American Novel." Also includes free online StoryCrafter Newsletter.

WriteExpress Corporation - offers WriteExpress Interactive Business Letters for Windows and WriteExpress Rhymer.

Writers' Computer Store, The - screenwriting, story development, organizers and multimedia, production software and books and tapes.  

B.C. Software, Inc. - Makers of Final Draft for Windows and Macintosh, and other fine screenwriting-related programs.

Ballistic Computing Incorporated - offers script writing software.

Movie Master Screenwriting Software - has been discontinued.

Screenwriters Resource Center - online ordering of Final Draft, Dramatica and ScriptThing in addition to chat and other specific interests.

ScriptPerfection Enterprises - makers of ScriptThing.

Scriptdude Software - software for formatting screenplays, TV scripts, etc.

Simon Skill Systems - providing screenwriting software and multicolumn scripting software for television commercials, etc. Includes online newsletter.  


Speechwriting

Matt's Speech Writer - a step-by-step explanation of building and writing the perfect speech.

OverViews: High-impact speeches - Advice on speechwriting, from concept to presentation. Includes numerous complete speech examples. Strictly professional -- no pap, pedantics, or boiler plate.

Speech Writing - speech archive, links to other speech collections, free help with your speech writing and the Web's first automatic wedding speech writer.

Usenet - bit.listserv.techwr-l  


Web Directories

Garbl's Writing Resources On Line - links to web sites focusing on English grammar, word usage, style, spelling, punctuation and structure.

SharpWriter.Com - providing ready reference links for writers.

Writer's Toolbox - Internet resources for writers. Includes research utilities, info on marketing manuscripts, and links to writers' organizations

Writers Free Reference Desk - has dictionary, quotation, and slang resources.

Writers Page: Resources on the Web  


Writer Directories

News Mait Writers' Cooperative - journalism job banks, newspaper gossip, writers for hire, and home to the Newsmait moderated writing mailing list.

Reporters Network, The - maintains e-mail directory of journalists, editors, producers, and freelance writers.

Shiba Hill - an authors cooperative for new and established authors to showcase their works for potential agents and/or publishers.

WritersNet - a searchable directory of hundreds of published writers on the Net. Published writers can add/edit their entries online.  


Writing for the Web

Good Documents: How to Write for the Intranet - Dan Bricklin's site that discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet, with examples.

One Writer's World - Tips and resource links to help you write, edit, and proofread web page content. Don't let surfers to your page think you are ignorant, sloppy, or worse -- that you just don't care!

WWW Scribe - dedicated to helping writers explore new pportunities by effectively using the Internet and the World Wide Web, with a particular emphasis on creating and maintaining Web pages.

Writing for the Web - studies of how users read online and guidelines for writing the text on Web pages.  

Hypertext

FAQ - alt.hypertext

Hyperizons: the Hypertext Fiction

Hyperliterature/Hypertheory graduate class

Hypertext Breakdown - how to break down existing texts into a usable hypertext form.

Hypertext Forum - home of hypertext projects by Syracuse University's creative writing program.

Hypertext Literature Bibliography

Hypertext'87 Conference - trip report from the first ACM Hypertext conference in 1987.

Thesis on Hypertext Literature - dissertation proposal on how the Internet is changing literature.

Web Directory: Hypertext resources on the web - Recommended by Eastgate Systems.