Reference

Put your dictionary, thesaurus, and APA Style Guide back on the bookshelf. The Internet has these resources available 24/7. The last section is especailly good for ED 7999

Dictionaries and Thesauri

Dictionary.com
Includes an online dictionary and thesaurus, you can even sign up for the Word of the Day e-mail

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
This site includes a language translation tool as well as a powerful dictionary

Your Dictionary.com
Includes multilingual dictionaries, translation tools, and several glossaries

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
The familiar (habitual, accustom, chummy) thesaurus, but online

The UNESCO Thesaurus
A list of terms in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication, and information

APA Style Guide Online

APA Style Online
Everything you may need to know from OWL

Duke University Libraries Citing Sources
In addition to APA, includes MLA, Turabian, and Chicago Manual of Style examples

Just for Fun

The Biographical Dictionary
Do you know who Khufu was? This dictionary will tell you. Need to know when Maya Angelou was born? Use this site

The Phrontistery
A dictionary of rare and obscure words … like wheeple. This site even has a list of "lost words." A great tool for building crossword puzzles

RhymeZone
Finds rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and definitions for a word. You can even use this tool to search for a word in Shakespeare's work!

WSU Library System Reference Tools site

Includes links to citation style guides, dictionaries & thesauri, exchange rates, tax forms, almanacs, encyclopedias, and more. Need to know which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were in Egypt? Try the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. How about the state of public education in Belize? Use the World Education Encyclopedia.