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A
favorite tip:
Many people confuse
the words "it's" and "its." When these very common
words are used incorrectly, the mistake can almost pop off the
page for some readers. It can be extremely obvious to them, sometimes
causing them to make negative judgments about the writer's background,
education, or ability. Sorry, but this is a fact of life.
"It's" is
a contraction that means "it is" or "it
has." It's not the same thing as as the possessive pronoun
"its," which implies ownership.
Example of correct usage:
"It's a bird building its nest."
Whenever you write "it's,"
ask yourself if you really mean to say "it is" or it
has." If not, you'll want to use "its."
And there is absolutely,
positively, no such word as "its'." |
A
favorite quote:
"Soon there will
be no one who remembers when spaceflight was still a dream, the
reverie of reclusive boys and the vision of a handful of men.
Most of those who met in ardent little groups in small cafes
between the world wars, planning voyages to the moon and planets
that they never hoped to witness, are no longer living. And the
last lonely boy to lie in a cricket-pulsing, honeysuckle night
and gaze at a virgin moon is now in the latter years of his life.
On the yellowed pages of boyhood books, the silver ships still
poise sleek and needle-nosed on the craggy wastes of other worlds
-- on alien moonscapes, bathed in the stark and eerie light of
some monster planet whose ring-shadowed hemisphere fills the
whole horizon, bulging into the black sky like a great golden
bubble, looming behind spacesuited specks who wander ant-like
across the incandescent night.... It was a dream of visible planets
impossibly distant, of fantastic alien surfaces, of a Tom Sawyer's
island or an Emerald City of Oz, awaiting for eons the beaching
of man's boats. It was a vision of steaming Venusian jungles,
and fine soft days on the green hills of Mars, cooled by coastal
breezes from the Great Canal, looking over a far desert where
ruins stood half in sand...."
- Wyn Wachhorst
The Dream of Spaceflight: Essays on the Near
Edge of Infinity |
- APA
Style Resources - http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
- Here are some links to American Psychological Association
style guides and help sheets on the internet. See also Corel's
Office
Community (Download Gallery, Templates & Projects) for
APA templates for WordPerfect 10 (which should also work in WP11).
- APA-Style Helper - http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelper/
"The APA-Style Helper is the electronic companion
to the Publication Manual, APA's popular style guide for writers.
Version 3.0 has been fully updated to comply with the new, fifth
edition of APA's Publication Manual. The new version is also
faster and easier to use. The APA-Style Helper:
- Walks you through your paper as you create it
- Helps format references, headings, and more according to APA
style
- Includes an essential reference builder
- Works with most word processors"
- A Guide for Writing Research
Papers (APA)
- http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm
- Agent
Research & Evaluation
- http://www.agentresearch.com/
- Bitstream
Fonts - http://www.bitstream.com/
- BookWire
Homepage - http://www.bookwire.com/
- Brief Citation Guide for Internet
Sources in History and the Humanities - http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html
- Chicago Style - http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html
- Chicago Manual of Style - http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
- Documenting (Citing) Electronic
Sources - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/584/01/
- Copyright Law in the United States (BitLaw) - http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/
- Creative
Freelancers
- http://www.freelancers1.com/
- Critters Workshop for SF, Fantasy,
Horror writers
- http://brain-of-pooh.tech-soft.com/users/critters/
- EndNote - http://www.niles.com/ - Software
"to search online bibliographic databases, organize their
references, and create bibliographies instantly and automatically."
Over 500 styles for various disciplines. (See also http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~dhmorton/dnh4.html
for similar software.)
- European
Federation of Intellectual Property - http://www.efipweb.org
- Fiction Writer's Connection - http://www.fictionwriters.com/
- ForWriters.com - http://forwriters.com/
- Guide to the University of Chicago
Documentation Style (Turabian Style) - http://depts.gallaudet.edu/Englishworks/writing/turabianguide.html
- How to Set Rates FAQ - The HTML
Writers Guild
- http://www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/ratesFAQ.html
- IconBAZAAR - http://www.iconbazaar.com/
- International
Trademark Association
- http://www.inta.org/
- iUniverse - http://www.iuniverse.com/
- For new and out of print authors - A partnership with Barnes
& Noble, Writers Digest - Get published on the web!
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
- MasterFreelancers Web Store for Writers - http://www.masterfreelancer.com/
- Media
Resource Service - links journalists with scientists - http://www.mediaresource.org/
- Oxbridge
Communications
- http://www.oxbridge.com/ - Publishers of the Standard periodical
Directory
- Proper manuscript format by William Shunn - http://www.shunn.net/format.html
- Resumesplus.com - http://www.resumesplus.com/
- Rhymer - http://www.writeexpress.com/rhyming-dictionary.html
- Rumored to be the same program that shipped with some early
DOS (WPCorp) versions of WordPerfect
- Richard
Lederer's Verbivore
- http://www.verbivore.com/ - "If you are heels over head
(as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a
while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. ..."
- Science
Fiction Resource Guide
- http://sf.emse.fr/SFRG/
- Science
Fiction Writers of America
- http://www.sfwa.org/
- SharpWriter
- grammar and writing resources
- http://www.sharpwriter.com/
- The
Authors Guild Online
- http://www.authorsguild.org/
- The
HTML Writers Guild
- http://www.hwg.org/
- The Online Communicator - http://www.online-communicator.com/toppage.html
- The
Publishing Law Center
- http://www.publaw.com/
- The Writer's Software Companion - http://www.novalearn.com/title.htm
- The Writers Store - http://www.writerscomputer.com/
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page - http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
 U.S. Government
Printing Office Style Manual
- http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/ - "... The Style
Manual is the product of many years of public printing experience,
and its rules are based on principles of good usage and custom
in the printing trade. The Style Manual has served Federal printers
since 1894, and with this 29th edition, the traditions of printing
and graphic arts are carried forward into new technologies."
- Using Modern Language Association
(MLA) Format
(Purdue Univ.) - http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
- See also Instructions
to Format a Manuscript following Modern Language Association
(MLA) Style in Corel Word Perfect - http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/tutorials/mlawp.html
- Warnings
and Cautions for Writers
- http://www.sfwa.org/beware/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America - Warnings About Literary Fraud and Other Schemes,
Scams, and Pitfalls That Target Writers
- World Builder Projects - http://hiddenway.tripod.com/world/
- Writer's
Blocks software for writers
- http://www.writersblocks.com/
- Writer's
Digest - http://www.writersdigest.com/
- Writers
Guild of America
- http://www.wga.org/
- Writers.Net
Internet Resource for Writers, Editors, Publishers and Agents - http://www.writers.net/
- Writers
Write - A "one-stop
resource for information about books, writing and publishing."
http://www.writerswrite.com/
- Writing.com - http://www.writing.com/
- Yearbook
of Experts - guide to experts and sources - http://www.expertclick.com/
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Some
Favorites -
Click here for other shareware/freeware download
sites
- As-U-Type
- If you are not a touch-typist
(or even if you are), this little utility program can correct
typos and spelling errors as you type. It even works alongside
WordPerfect's QuickCorrect, and can expand abbreviations like
QuickWords -- in any Windows program (such as your e-mail
program). Learns from your mistakes. Easy to toggle on and off
as needed (LShft+RShft keys), and very easy to use. Free 30-day
trial; US$39.95 to register.
- FinePrint
- "...save money
by reducing ink and paper usage
- reduce file storage
space
- skip graphics
- convert colored text
to black
- print multiple pages
onto a sheet
- print booklets (easier than
with WordPerfect)
- electronic letterhead
- watermarks, headers,
footers
- save as JPEG, TIF,
BMP..."
- see the list of benefits
here
- This is a similar product
to ClickBook (below), for $49.95. Fewer layoout options than
ClickBook, but slightly easier to use, and it can store pages
until you are ready to print, making it even easier to create
booklets from multiple sources.
- Download the trial
(demo) version, which is limited to 8 pages of output and
has a default text footer; both limitations are removed when
you register.
- ClickBook
- Similar to FinePrint
but with more layout options. According to their web site, ClickBook
is "...a powerful yet easy-to-use printing utility, lets
you print customized day planner pages, wallet booklets, brochures,
greeting cards, catalogs, microfiche, and more from Internet,
Windows, or CD-Rom files! ClickBook, helps you scale, rotate,
and duplex your digital photos, favorite on-line content, or
other critical information into 40+ mobile and convenient layouts.
You can even design your own custom layouts and save up to 70%
in paper costs!" Also, ClickBook makes it easier to adjust
binding margins than WP's booklet printing feature.
- ClickBook works in
any Windows program since it acts as a printer driver, which
is selectable with File>Print.
- A ClickBook demo is
available for download (about 3Mb). The registration cost is
$49.95.
- ClipTrak
- A free PC Magazine
utility that "...saves any text you copy to the Windows
Clipboard and gives easy access to that text for later use. The
utility maintains two lists: Cache and Saved...." The former
can contain up to 100 clips stored between computer sessions;
the latter offers more permanent disk storage of selected clips.
Both lists are instantly available from the Win95/98 taskbar
with your right mouse button. [TIP: Search the ZDNet software
library for other excellent utilities.]
- NoteTab
Lite
"The ultimate free (Windows) Notepad replacement
and a handy HTML editor...Search files, strip HTML tags and format
text quickly."
- Of special interest
is NoteTab's ability to automatically store any text copied to
the Windows clipboard in its own "Pasteboard". Open
NoteTab, press <Shift+Ctrl+P>, and everything you copy
(Ctrl+C) or cut (Ctrl+X) will also go to the Pasteboard file.
(You can even minimize NoteTab for the session.) You can then
copy from the Pasteboard back into another application such as
WordPerfect, your e-mail program, etc.
- Cleaning up "quoted"
e-mail material is easy, too. Copy it into NoteTab, select the
text, then click Modify, E-mail, Unquote to remove all leading
">" symbols. Then select the text again and click
Modify, Lines, Join Lines. (These steps can be made easier by
customizing NoteTab's toolbar and adding the appropriate buttons.)
- RoboType
- From PC Magazine. If
you like WP's QuickWords, you'll love RoboType (and it's free).
You can have several libraries of expandable abbreviations!
RoboType works in other Windows programs, too.
- Automatic
backups.
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Other Download Sites -
- ClipArtConnection.com - Free Clip Art
Connection -
http://www.clipartconnection.com/
- Completely Free Software - http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/index_w95.html
- DaveCentral
Shareware, Freeware, Demos and Betas - http://www.davecentral.com/
- Desktop98
Freeware and Shareware for Win98
- http://www.windowspc.com/
- Download.Net
- The Best Games, etc.
- http://www.download.net/
- Filedudes! - Win 95-98-NT Program Categories - http://filedudes.flashhost.com/win95/
- Free Downloads-File Library-MSN
Computing Cen.
- http://computingcentral.msn.com/downloads/default.asp
- Freeware
32 - http://www.freeware32.com/
- Freeware
Home - http://freewarehome.com/
- Funduc
Software - Search and Replace for Wind. - http://www.funduc.com/
- Microsoft Software - http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/default.htm
- Moon
Software - Bookmark Wizard, etc
- http://www.moonsoftware.com/
- NONAGS
Freeware Shareware World Center
- http://nonags.com/
- PC Magazine Online -- Downloads
Area - http://www.pcmag.com/download/dl-home.htm
- PC World's FileWorld - http://www.pcworld.com/fileworld/0,1392,,00.html
- SharePaper
- Shareware reviews
- http://www.sharepaper.com/
- Shareware.com - Search for shareware - http://www.shareware.com/?pt.msn..lp.sw
- Shell Extension City - http://members.primary.net/~robert/shellex.htm
- SoftSeek
- shareware, freeware
- http://softseek.com/
- SoftwareVault - http://www.softwarevault.com/
- TUCOWS - http://tucows.microagegb.com/
- WinFiles - http://search.windows95.com/
- ZDNet
Software Library
- http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/
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- ASCII
/ HTML codes chart
- A guide to résumé
writing from
the National Association of Colleges and Employers (includes
sample resumes and cover letters)
- Conversion factors (kilometers to miles, etc.)
- http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001729.html
- WhatTheFont? - "Ever wanted to find a font just
like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad
campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition
system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find
the closest matches in our database...." [See also the Find Fonts tab
on their site.]
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- Free "Slashed
Zero" True Type font (Arial typeface) - http://www.seagullscientific.com/html/slash_0.htm
Produces a slash zero instead of a normal zero.
- "What
is 'Lorem Ipsum?'"
- Dummy text for printing, layouts, etc., and a free generator
of random 'Latin' paragraphs. [For a Mozilla FireFox browser
add-on that generates such text of various lengths, see https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2064/]
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