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1. Introduction

2. Substantive Writing
3. Mechanics of Writing
3.1 Abbreviations and Names
3.2 Illustrations: Captions, Legends, and Credit Lines
3.3 Notes and Bibliographies
3.4 Numbers and Dates
3.5 Punctuation
3.6 Spelling and Special Terms
 
4. Editorial Process
 
5. Editorial Support
 
6. Collection Framework
6.1 About the Collection
6.2 Acknowledgments
6.3 Building the Digital Collection
6.4 Cataloging the Collection
6.5 Copyright and Other Restrictions
6.6 Related Resources
6.7 Scope and Content Note
6.8 Selected Bibliography
6.9 Special Presentations
6.10 Other Components
 
7. Learning Page
 
8. Today in History
 
9. Glossary

5. Editorial Support

This section provides information about Internet and print resources related to editing and writing. There is a small library of editorial materials in LA G-04; for further information, consult with a member of the NDLP editorial team.

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Web Resources

Online Reference Sources

Acronyms/Abbreviations -- terms with a focus on computers and technology
http://www.AcronymFinder.com/

Bookbinding/The Conservation of Books -- A Dictionary of
Descriptive Terminology, Matt T. Roberts
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html

Britannica Online
http://search.eb.com/

Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
http://www.oreilly.com/reference/dictionary

Fifty States and Capitals Reference Resource
http://www.50states.com

FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing (case sensitive)
http://www.InstantWeb.com/~foldoc/

How Users Read on the Web -- usability study by Jakob Nielsen and John Morkes.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

Information Please Dictionary
http://www.infoplease.com/

Internet Public Library Reference Center
http://www.ipl.org/ref/

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Library of Congress WWW Style Guide,
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/webstyle/.

Libweb -- Library Web Servers of the World
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

MDA Glossary -- for business executives by MDA Computing Ltd.,
England
http://www.whatis.com/

Merriam-Webster WWWebster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Merriam-Webster WWWebster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Online Dictionaries (multilingual)
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

PC Weblopædia -- search engine dedicated to computer technology
http://www.pcwebopaedia.com

Pedro's Dictionaries -- multilingual dictionaries from Iowa State University
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/dictionaries.html

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1997)
http://www.census.gov/statab/www

Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/

U.S. Gazetteer
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

World Fact Book (1997) -- C.I.A.; click on "countries" to access
data
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

WordNet -- select "Use WordNet Online" and then "HTML forms
interface"
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn

WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/acro.html

Online Resources Citation Guides

A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html

Citing Cyberspace [book online] -- James D. Lester (1997)
Click on the "Online Citation Guides" from the Longman site.
http://longman.awl.com/englishpages

Citing Electronic Resources Page -- Internet Public Library
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html

Citing Print and Electronic Research Sources -- Carol Hansen
A few examples are available under "Chicago/Turabian Style."
http://library.weber.edu/libinstruct/citing.htm

Inkspot, the Writer's Resource
http://www.inkspot.com/

John Hewitt's Writers' Resource Center
http://www.azstarnet.com/~poewar/writer/writer.html

Library & Information Science: Citation Guides for Electronic Documents -- IFLANET
http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm

National Writers Union Online Resources
http://www.nwu.org/links/lnkhome.htm

Writers' Workshop Online Writing Guide, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/


Recommended Books

On classification of terminologies for different fields:

Glazier, Stephen. Word Menu. New York: Random House, 1992.

On editing:

Skillin, Marjorie E., and Robert M. Gay. Words into Type. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1974.

On grammar:

Chalker, Sylvia, and Edmund Weiner. The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Dumond, Val. Grammar for Grownups. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

On usage:

Ebbitt, Wilma R., and David R. Ebbitt. Index to English. 8th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Fowler, H.W. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Garner, Bryan A. A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Morris, William, and Mary Morris. Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. 3rd ed. Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, 1979.

Timmons, Christine, and Frank Gibney, eds. Britannica Book of English Usage. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Britannica Books, 1980.

On substantive writing and editing:

Williams, Joseph M. Style: Towards Clarity and Grace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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