Online Dictionary/Thesaurus

       Webster's Dictionary  www.m-n.com

Grammar Help

    Guide to Grammar and Writing  http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm

     Grammar Slammer!  www.englishplus.com/grammar/

     Writer's Handbook  www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/ClearConciseSentences.html

Online Writing Centers

     Paradigm Online Writing Assistant  www.powa.org/whtfrms.htm

    National Writing Centers Association Webpage  http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCAOWLS.html

     NWCA Online Handouts  http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/NWCA/Resources.html

     BYU Writing Center  http://humanities.byu.edu/writingctr/Handouts/indexb.htm

     Garbl's Active Writing Links  www.members.home.net/garbl/writing/action.htm

     Purdue Online Writing Lab  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

     Texas A & M Writing Center Handouts  www-english.tamu.edu/wcenter/handouts/

Research and MLA

     Blinn College Library  www.blinn.edu/Library/index.htm

     Texs A & M Library  http://voyager-am.tamu.edu

     Basic Tutorial for Searching the Internet  www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

     Evaluating Internet Material  http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html

     Bedford/St. Martin's Citation Guides  www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

     Guide for Writing Research Papers  http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm

     Citing Electronic Sources  http://bailwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

Online Magazines and Newspapers

         Top 100 Newspapers

       U. S. News & World Report  www.usnew/home/htm

       Time  www.time.com/time/0,1237,0,00.html

       Newsweek  www.newsweek.com/

         Sierra Club

         Dallas Morning News

         Houston Chronicle

         Austin American-Statesman  San Antonio Express-News

         The New York Times 

Search Engine Help

The following guidelines may make searching the Internet much more productive and less time-consuming.

1.  Be specific--Enter as many search terms and keywords as possible.
2.  Drop the plural "s".  Singular terms will yield more,a nd better, results than pulurals.
3.  Use capital letters where needed.  Most search engines are case sensitive and will recognize that this a specific title.
4.  Use quotation marks.  Typing "china cabinet" limits the search to those two words only when found together.
5.  Use wildcard characters.  If you're unsure about the spelling, an asterick (*) can replace one or more characters.  Can't spell Neiman Marcus?  Try N*man Marc*s instead.
6.  Try using an operator.  The plus sign is the most common.  Type "Texas+wildflowers"--using no spaces--to limit the search to sites where both these words are found, though not necessarily together.
7.  Some of the more popular search engines:
 infoseek
 altavista
 hotbot
 lycos
 excite
 webcrawler
 yahoo
 northernlight.com
 looksmart
 zdnet
 Meta Listing of Search Engines