Internet Research

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Meta-Engines
Search Engines.
Subject-oriented Guides
Newspapers and Journals
Reference Books and Sources
US Government
California Government
Style Sheets
ESL WEB Sites
Books

Meta-Engines A quick look at what might be out there.

• Ask Jeeves..Plain English questions allowed.
• MetaCrawler
• Inference Find
• Internet Sleuth

Search Engines. General and Fast. May overwhelm you. Use the advanced search and look at the first 40 items.

• Google
• Northern Light
• hotbot
• AltaVista
• Go/Infoseek
• Excite
• Yahoo
• FAST Search
• Lycos
• Acme Labs Search Forms...All the search helpers you need.
• Internet Jumpstation...All the search helpers on a chart.

Subject-oriented Guides. Specific. Preselected.

• DejaNews..Newgroups on any topic.
• Argus Clearinghouse.. Michigan Clearinghouse for Subject-oriented Internet Resource Guides
• WWW Virtual Library..good pointers
• EiNet Galaxy ..both a search engine and an index guide
• The Mining Company

Newspapers and JournalsFind anecdotes, events, statistics, and facts to support your opinion.

News Services

• NewsTracker..a free, personalized search of over 300 newspapers and online journal
• NewsHound ..for a few dollors a month this hound will search 200 newspapers for your topic.
• Online Newspapers..1050 to choose from.
• Pathfinder..a list of News Sources.

Newspapers

• ABC News
• Associated Press
• CBS News
• Christian Science Monitor
• CNET
• CNN
• LA Times
• New York Times on the Web
• SF Chronicle/ Examiner
• San Jose Mercury
• United Press International
• USA Today
• US News Online
• Wired News

Journals

• AJR Newslink a list of Journals
• Newslink a list of Popular Magazines
• Mother Jones
• The Nation
• Newsweek
• Salon
• Time
• US News and World Report

Reference Books and Sources

• For quick fact answers, check out Yahoo! or try theResearch-It collection.


• Bartletts Quotations
• Chiefs of State of Foreign Countries
• Cliff's Notes
• National Assessment Board
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Population Index
• Thesaurus
• University of Texas Research Library
• Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
• World Factbook 97
• MapQuest.Find your path to anywhere.

US Government

• Thomas Legislative Information.
• Social Law Library
• Supreme Court Decisions
• US Senate
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• CIA Publications
• USDA
• US Census Bureau
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• White House

California Government

• California State Homepage...Most internet sites operated by the State.

Style Sheets

• APA Style Sheet
• MLA Style Sheet
• MLA for Electronic Citations

Writing Labs

• LEO: Literacy Education Online
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas
• Rensselaer Writing Center

ESL WEB Sites

• Dave's Internet Cafe
• StudyCom
• Frizzy University

Discussions about Writing

• * An Amazing List of Writer's Resources The very best list possible. Look here first.
• On Line Writing Therapy Help for writer's block and other homework diseases.
• Strunk's Elements of StyleThe one book you really need.

Grammar Helps

• A Grammar Clinic
• A Grammar Book

Books

Literature Sites

• Great Books Online
• American Verse
• Women Writers
• Jane Austin
• Emily Dickinson
• William Faulkner
• Robert Frost
• Ernest Hemingway
• Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey
• Shakespeare A whole index (from Yahoo) on Shakespeare
• Walt Whitman
• Oscar Wilde
  

Book Stores on Line

• * Amazon World's biggest bookstore. Daily discussions. Great reviews.
• The Bookworm

• Macmillan Publishing Bookstore

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