an ewriter’s e-reference shelf

Like the shelf above your typewriter, this “on line” reference shelf should contain the volumes you put there yourself. But a bare shelf isn’t very inspiring, so I’ve put up a few things that you might find useful. You will want to work on this page’s manuscript, though, and gather your own references.

eWriter References

  

Writing References

Dictionaries

Thesauruses

Quotations

General Collections

Special Collections

Encyclopedias

  

eWriting References

Internet Dictionaries

Citing Sources

Evaluating Sources

E-Mail

Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

Search Engines

  

HTML/XML References

HTML

XML

I’ve borrowed many volumes and sets from April Corioso’s excellent acquisition and “shelving” in building the Los Medanos Community College Library’s “ready reference” (Pittsburg, California) site. She is not responsible for my hurried snatch and place, which likely lessens the thoroughness of coverage. But I’m just sketching a “personal” reference shelf.

The last two segments on HTML and XML are more like a real personal reference shelf might be on any given day and hour. I took these from my old Netscape 3 Bookmarks page where they would be as quickly copied as April’s neat segments. They aren’t necessarily a document writer’s most useful references. They are mostly from my explorations when I was designing my Tagset menu structure.
--gf