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Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Improve your Writing

Overview of Punctuation

Using Commas

Active vs. Passive Voice

Formatting a Business Letter

 

Theses- Dissertations – APA Guidelines

 

Visual Thesaurus Online

The Visual Thesaurus Online ...
takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Type in a word, click go, and you're rewarded with a colourful, interactive map of all the meanings of your word and its synonyms.

Click on the image at left to try it out.

 

 
Here's a selection of some of our favourite books ~

they are especially helpful for self-publishing and marketing your writing.
 

 

                                                             Click the arrows to rotate the carousel
                                                                                     then mouse-over the covers to make your choice

 

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Where writers and publishers go for answers...

Wherever you are in the development of your book, you'll find the tools to make your venture faster, easier and more successful. This site has hundreds of pages of free documents plus books, downloadable reports, disks, and tapes. 

www.parapublishing.com  is an absolute MUST SEE site for any self-publishing author to visit-frequently.

 

 

Self-Publishing is the process which allows authors to publish their work and market it themselves, allowing them to receive maximum financial profit for their work.  The Copy Press makes this exciting process both easy and economical for anyone with a story to tell.
 

 

Chicago Manual of Style FAQs

Clear, concise, and replete with commonsense advice, the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style offers the wisdom of a hundred years of editorial practice while including a wealth of new topics and updated perspectives. For anyone who works with words, in any medium, this continues to be the one reference book you simply must have.     Click on the link to use the on-line FAQs

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SPA(NZ) Self Publishers' Association (NZ) is a support organization for writers who have published, or are planning to publish, their own work.

 

 

Working at a computer for most of the day creates a high level of visual tension - treat yourself to full-spectrum lighting to relax your eyes. You can work longer without tiring . . . and be far less affected by the long, dreary stretches of days without sunshine.  Have your sunshine indoors!
             
Viva-Lite Full Spectrum Bulbs

 

 

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE
OF BUSINESS STUDIES

You can learn how to be a professional proofreader and/or editor within a year. This correspondence course has 14 tutorials and assignments. Each one takes you a step closer to being a qualified professional.
(Trade Certificate Level 4.)
                 Learn to be a Proofreader

 

Turn on your creative juices !

TURN YOUR BRAIN INTO A SUPER ‘DREAM-REALIZING’ MACHINE

 

This simple system is 100% natural and free from mumbo-jumbo.
 

It's real; it works; and I'm living proof that you can use this practical system to...

•Nuke any bad habit that has been tied around your neck for decades

•Learn anything you want two to three times faster, with better retention...
even if you had trouble in school

•Master just about any skill you want to      acquire

•Achieve real, lasting success in anything

  you do!

Those are the kinds of things you can do when you make the most of your mind.

In a very real sense, you'll have super mind powers that most people never get to tap into.

Now, if that sounds like Star Trek or something similarly "out there," let me assure you, it's not some wacky voodoo or anything even close.

What it is, actually, is science. Every single thing in this system is a proven psychological reality.

Click here for small taste of what you'll find inside your Super Mind Power System.

 

 

WordReference.com  is a free online dictionary. We are happy to present the Collins Dictionaries from HarperCollins. For a quick definition, type a word into the form to the left. 

There are four multilingual translation dictionaries and one extremely big English dictionary: Spanish-English Dictionary ~ French-English Dictionary ~ Italian-English Dictionary ~ German-English Dictionary ~ The Collins English Dictionary.

 

A friendly group formed
 by New Zealand writers
who like to share and
promote their work.

It's not only a great help
in developing style and skills,
it's a lot of fun!

For more information
on the monthly meetings
in Browns Bay,
e-mail m.e.green@xtra.co.nz

 

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