General Writing Links
The links below are designed to provide easy access to style guides used in anthropological and historical publishing, as well as to online dictionaries for languages used during the colonial era, and other academic writing resources.
Other Links Pages: General / Writing / Journals / Archival / Archaeology / Organizations
My Writing Tips for Class Papers
Meant for my students, but potentially useful to others, an assortment of writing tips for class papers (PDF file).
Style Guides
In addition to the links below, I have developed a Quick Anthropological Style Guide Comparison page with templates and a few comparative examples highlighting the major differences between AAA, SAA, and SHA citation and bibliography formats.
AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style Guide (see also here)
SAA (Society for American Archaeology) Style Guide (direct to PDF)
SHA (Society for Historical Archaeology) Style Guide (direct to PDF)
Chicago Manual of Style (quick-guide to both the notes-and-bibliography and author-date formats).
Purdue OWL, Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (very useful guide to this style guide)
Turabian Citation Guide (quick-guide to both the notes-and-bibliography and author-date formats; see also Turabian Format, the UWF Library quick-guide to notes-and-bibliography format)
Citing Primary Sources (brief Library of Congress page with examples of how to cite various types of primary sources using Chicago Manual and MLA style guides)
Citation Style Guides (links from the University of Georgia libraries)
Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States (PDF guide to citation standards and organizational structure)
Dictionaries, Grammar, etc.
English: Modern Online Resources
Oxford English Dictionary / UWF Off-Campus OED (English-English; by institutional subscription)
American Heritage Dictionary (free online version)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary (free online version)
The Historical Thesaurus of English (wonderful new resource hosted by the University of Glasgow)
Dictionary.com / Thesaurus.com (English-English; free)
Online Etymology Dictionary (English-English; free)
English Grammar: Alphabetical Index (links to explanations of the proper grammatical usage of commonly-mistaken terms, and more general grammar topics)
A Way with Words (an excellent reference page for a radio show/podcast about language)
English: Digitized Modern (Early 20th-Century) Books
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam 1917)
The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (Funk & Wagnalls 1921)
The New Universities Dictionary (World Syndicate Company 1925)
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's 1921; see also the 1852 second edition)
The New International Encyclopædia (1902-1917): V. 1, A-Arm (1902) / V. 2, Arm-Big (1902) / V. 3, Big-Can (1902) / V. 4, Can-Col (1902) / V. 5, Col-Des (1902) / V. 6, Des-Eth (1903) / V. 7, Eth-Ful (1903) /V. 8, Ful-Hal (1903) / V. 9, Hal-Inf (1903) / V. 10, Inf-Lar (1903) / V. 11, Lar-Max (1903) / V. 12, Max-New (1903) / V. 13, New-Phi (1903) / V. 14, Mor-Omu (1906) / V. 15, Ric-Sou (1904) / V. 16, Sou-Typ (1904) / V. 17, Typ-Zyr (1904) / V. 18, Ser-Tag (1905) / V. 19, Tah-Vam (1905) / V. 20, Vam-Zyr (1905) / V. 21, Shi-Tar (1917) / V. 22, Tar-Val (1916) / V. 23, Val-Zyr (1917)
Spanish: Modern Online Resources
Real Academia Espanola (modern Spanish-Spanish; use top search box on the right)
SpanishDict.com (Spanish-English/English-Spanish)
Babylon (Spanish-English/English-Spanish, and many others)
Colonial-Era Spanish Language Resources (my own web page with an assortment of links to historical Spanish-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionaries and grammatical texts dating between 1726 and 1848, including the Nuevo Tesoro Lexografico de la Lengua Espanola with the original Diccionario de Autoridades published from 1726-1739).
Overviews of the rules (in Spanish) for placing accents on Spanish words and names can be found here, here, here, here, and here.
Spanish: Digitized Modern (Early 20th-Century) Books
Novisimo Diccionario de la Lengua Española (1900)
Diccionario de la Lengua Española (1903)
Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Lengua Castellana (1905): V. 1 (A-G) / V. 2 (H-Z)
Diccionario General de la Lengua Española (1906); V. 1 (A-L) / V. 2 (M-Z)
Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado: Nuevo Diccionario Enciclopédico (1912)
French
Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (modern French-French; 9th edition, 1992-present)
Online French-English/English-French Dictionary (free)
Let Trésor de la Langue Française (French-French; free)
Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (both volumes of this 1765 French dictionary, fully searchable)
Latin
A Latin Dictionary, by Lewis and Short (detailed online version of dictionary from 1879)
Words (free online version of program with Latin-English and English-Latin translation capability)
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid (another free online dictionary)
Pronunciation
Forvo (audio database of pronunciations of words in languages worldwide, by native speakers)
General Resources
Scholarly Abbreviations (definitions for Latin abbreviations used in scholarly writing)
Pronunciation Respelling for English (great Wikipedia article showing many non-phonemic systems of symbols used to guide pronunciation)
Ultimate Cool Characters (comprehensive list of codes for inserting foreign language symbols in documents, or see below)
Graphemica (super-comprehensive database regarding codes and symbols for foreign language characters)
Alt Codes for Diacriticals (copy and paste directly from my table below, or use the .jpg image below to print a handy reference sheet)
Spanish |
French |
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á |
alt + 160 |
à |
alt + 133 |
é |
alt + 130 |
â |
alt + 131 |
í |
alt + 161 |
æ |
alt + 145 |
ó |
alt + 162 |
è |
alt + 138 |
ú |
alt + 163 |
é |
alt + 130 |
ü |
alt + 129 |
ê |
alt + 136 |
ç |
alt + 135 |
ë |
alt + 137 |
Ç |
alt + 128 |
î |
alt + 140 |
ñ |
alt + 164 |
ï |
alt + 139 |
Ñ |
alt + 165 |
ô |
alt + 147 |
Printable Image of Table
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ù |
alt + 151 |
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û |
alt + 150 |
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ü |
alt + 129 |
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ç |
alt + 135 |
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œ |
alt + 339 |
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TypeIt (website where you can type text with foreign language diacriticals online and cut-and-paste for insertion offline; includesSpanish and French)
Acronym Finder.com (searchable index of the many potential meanings for acronyms used in a variety of contexts)
Grammar (comic-based and very useful tips on grammar by The Oatmeal, including a guide to using the semicolon)