Word Processing
The Bay City Public Schools offers tutorials on Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, and Publisher:
http://www.bcschools.net/staff/WordHelp.htm
The State University Of New Jersey offers several tutorials
including Microsoft Word (introduction, templates, tables,
collaboration), WordPerfect, printer troubleshooting, viruses,
freezes and crashes, Excel, Outlook Express, PDF
reader, PDF creation, and WinZip:
http://getit.rutgers.edu/tutorials/wordperfect/
BCK Technologies offers software to convert PDF into HTML and RTF / Word:
http://www.gobcl.com/
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Reference Tools
Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk, includes thesauri,
dictionaries, encyclopaedias and all sorts of other information:
http://www.itools.com/
Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and
accurate open content encyclopedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
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Organisations, Societies & Education
trAce connects writers and readers around the world in real and
virtual space. We promote an accessible and inclusive approach
to the internet with the focus on creativity, collaboration and
training. This is where writers meet to experiment, create new
work, and expand the potential of the global literary community.
Membership is free:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) facilitates and
promotes the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in
electronic media. Their website includes a searchable database
of authors:
http://www.eliterature.org/
The Voice of the Shuttle (VoS) provides a structured and briefly
annotated guide to online resources to the humanities disciplines
as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with
new digital media:
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
A guide to online research resources provided by the University
of Califronia's Santa Barbara Department of English, including
links to online books, electronic literature, new media writing
and electronic journals:
http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/resources/guides/learning/
research_resources.asp
Located in the Presidio of San Francisco, The Internet Archive
is a searchable library offering permanent access to historical
collections that exist in digital format, including the International
Children's Digital Library:
http://www.archive.org/
Poets & Writers, Inc. is a source of information, support,
and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, this nonprofit
literary organization is located in New York City:
http://www.pw.org/
PrintMedia InBox is designed to keep you informed of the latest
industry news. It has an email list and timely articles on print
media:
http://www.printmediamag.com/
Computers and Composition, an international journal of teachers
teaching online, hosted by The University of Texas at Austin:
http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/
The Learning and Skills Hub has collected together and categorised
web site links specifically for the use of educational people,
under headings such as funding, teaching and learning and staff
development:
http://lshub.ngfl.gov.uk/
The American Press Institute's Journalist Toolbox has a searchable
database of online resources for writers and editors and journalists:
http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/
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Copyright
This site offers links to information about copyright and intellectual property in many countries:
http://www.ipmenu.com/
Compiler Press' Compleat World Copyright website is searchable
by author, country, institute, journal, or media:
http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/
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Experimental
Storyspace is a hypertext writing environment that is especially
well suited to large, complex, and challenging hypertexts. Storyspace
focuses on the process of writing, making it easy and pleasant
to link, revise, and reorganize. Storyspace is available for Windows
and Macintosh computers:
http://www.eastgate.com/Storyspace.html
Vannevar Bush's original 1945 article which invented hypertext:
http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/awmt.html
The Electronic Labyrinth, a study of the implications of hypertext
for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions
of linearity.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/elab.html
Mark Bernstein on hypertexts:
http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Electronic.html
The Hypertext Kitchen, an online newsletter for hypertext writers:
http://hypertext.pair.com/
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Last edited: 20 November 2004
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