Reference: Grammar and Style | Dictionaries | Thesauri

Grammar and Style Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (U Chicago P) Research and Documentation On-Line by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister (Bedford-St. Martin's P) The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com) Jack Lynch's Guide to Grammar and Style Random House on Sensitive Language: How to Avoid Insensitive Language | The Offensiveness Quotient MLA's Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources Dictionaries Dictionary.com Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (available to subscribers only) Travlang's Translating Dictionaries YourDictionary.com (includes thesaurus and foreign language dictionaries) Thesauri Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Thesaurus Thesuarus.com (Roget's Thesaurus on-line)

Libraries

Kansas State University Libraries (main page) Hale Library Hale Library's hours Library Catalog (search the catalog of K-State's libraries) Databases: Alphabetical Listing Databases: Subject Listing: Literature Request forms Other Libraries (index maintained by KSU Libraries) Manhattan Public Library Hours On-Line Catalog and Renewals

Magazines

Arts & Letters Daily The Atlantic The Believer Electronic Literature Organization's links to Electronic Literature Publications Granta Harper's Magazine Huge Magazine ("The Internet's Superchunky Arts and Leisure Magazine") McSweeney's The New York Review of Books New York Times Book Review (you have to register, but it's free) The New Yorker Gladwell.com, Malcolm Gladwell's website: includes his New Yorker articles. RebeccaMead.com, Rebecca Mead's website: includes her New Yorker articles. The Paris Review Poetry Daily (featuring "a new poem every day") Poets and Writers Magazine Verbatim: The Language Quarterly The Village Voice Wholphin: DVD Magazine of Unseen Films The Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor's "daily program of poetry and history")

Texts On-Line

Bartleby.com Eric Eldred's Eldritch Press Electronic Literature Directory Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia) Poetry of Kansas (Kansas State Library) Project Gutenberg Representative Poetry On-Line (Univ. of Toronto) The Internet Public Library's Online Texts Collection John Mark Ockerbloom's On-Line Books Page

Academe

AAUP (American Association of University Professors) American Studies Association Caveat Lector ("Camera Obscura's meta-index of academic and scholarly resources") The Chronicle of Higher Education Electronic Literature Organization The English Server (a.k.a. eserver.org. Carneige Mellon's great collection of resources in Arts & Humanities) The Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Site MLA (Modern Language Association) Octavo.com ("dedicated to making the history and beauty of rare original works available to libraries and their patrons") Phi Beta Kappa UPenn's Calls for Papers site U.S. Universities, by State (U-Texas at Austin's directory of 4-year colleges and universities on the web) Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

Indices (pages that offer an index of resources)

Bedford Links to Resources in Literature (Bedford Books) Book Industry Study Group Inc. BookSpot ("The best of book reviews, book stores, reading lists and more") Google's Literature Directory LibrarySpot ("The best of libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more") Literary Prizes, Awards, etc... (at Canterbury Public Library, Christchurch, New Zealand) at the New York Times (you have to register to use the site, but it's free) CyberTimes Navigator (a "selective guide to the Internet") Featured Authors (this page has disappeared) Writers on Writing PopCultures.com Voice of the Shuttle (maintained by Alan Liu at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Yahoo's Literature Pages

Fun with Language

AltaVista: Translations (the Babel Fish page) Tom Dalzell's Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam-Webster) Rinkworks.com's Dialectizer ("Convert English to text to...well, you'll see") Whoohoo.co.uk dialect translators (a U.K. site comparable to the Dialectizer) The Surrealist Compliment Generator Richard Polt's The Classic Typewriter Page

Manhattan, Kansas

City of Manhattan, Kansas (city govt.) The Manhattan Mercury (daily newspaper) The K-State Collegian (student-run daily paper) The Manhattan Arts Center The Beach Museum of Art The Strecker-Nelson Gallery The People's Grocery Co-op

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