Gather Your Tools and Resources to Write a Thousand Articles This Year

We're going to take our mammoth undertaking for this year, to write and publish a thousand new articles, and break it down into a number of smaller, non-intimidating, manageable process steps that will allow you to alter your current paradigms concerning what is possible for you to do. You may think of writing a thousand articles as a huge leap of skills, talent and accomplishment, which true - it is, but not so much so that you must feel it's out of the question for you now. It's most certainly is not. This can be critically important if you are involved in copywriting or article marketing.

An Important Early Step

Well up front you'll need to set aside a place or space where you will consistently work. This was mentioned in a previous article. So you should have your writing nook ready. Now another important early step is to gather some of your most essential tools and resources together into or near your writing space for quick access. While exactly what these will consist of may vary a bit depending on what kind of writing you'll be doing, there are some key resources that are invaluable to almost every writer regardless of genre or topics. Let's take a quick look at eight of these are in parts one and two of this article and then assemble them for our frequent use and referral.

1. A Dictionary - You're going to have to have not just one, but several dictionaries on hand for a variety of purposes. And not the little paperback ones either. I'm talking about full-fledged hard-bound volumes of American and British English. Toss in a Rhyming dictionary, too. If you work at all with another language or any vocabulary or cultural references to one, then you should also have at one good bilingual dictionary on hand.

2. A Thesaurus - Now another dividing point among many serious writers is their use of a word reference tool other than a dictionary. Some favor the old standby Roget's Thesaurus, while more conventional, upbeat authors gravitate more towards a Rodale's Word Finder. I have and use both, but definitely prefer the Rodale's.

3. Book of Word Origins - This may or may not be commonly available, depending on where you live, but I've found this reference to be quite helpful on numerous occasions in writing for a wide variety of genres. This can provide some short, concise filler information to chip into a piece that might be initially too "thin" in some spots.

In the continuing part two of this article, we'll suggest five additional resources which should prove invaluable in your quest to write a thousand articles (or more) in a year.

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Ten online resources for authors and other Lexophiles

Lexophilia is defined as "the love of words." It is a neologism, a newly invented word. It comes from two Greek words – Lexis (meaning words) and Philia (meaning love).

You will find authors, readers, Lexophiles, and each research a wealth of free information on the Internet.   Here are ten pages that will help you find just about everything you need to search.

1. Rhymezone.com is my dictionary of choice. It is a quick and easy way to find words, but it is so much more. Here, you will find synonyms anonymous, and meanings. Use it to write poems. It will return words, with your rhyme. The term that would like to see in a famous quote - no problem. It will return with your word pictures, documents and multimedia related. And you can choose it by default to your most frequently used functions adjust.

(2) Bartleby.com is one of the most extensive references on the Web. Here you will find everything from encyclopedias, first addresses of the President of the United States. Bartleby has search for quotes, more than 87,000 contemporary and classic quotations. The elements of style, the Columbia Gazetteer of North America, the Holy Bible, old and New Testaments, are only a small part of what is offered.

(3) Urbandictionary.com is a slang dictionary with a words relating to urban cultures and street slang. More than 3,000,000 definitions submitted since 1999

(4) Acronymfinder.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. She have uncut for ten years and her sister online website acronymattic.com has a further three million acronyms and abbreviations.

(5) itools.com offers quick access to some of the best Internet Tools. Search tools help you to find something on the Web. Look up or translate words with language tools. Use the research tools to find information about each subject. Driving directions are financial instruments which convert currency and map tools.

(6) Gutenberg.org is the site of Project Gutenberg, a library of electronically stored books that are freely available. It was started in 1971 by Michael Hart and drawn by hundreds of volunteers. There are over 25,000 free books in the online catalogue. There is also an offline catalog, which can be downloaded.

(7) Refdesk.com is a portal to much of what the World Wide Web offers. Listed a wide range of informative and educational websites. Desktop resources include area codes, zip codes, calculator, old farmers Almanac, newspapers, lottery results, sports, tax prep Guide and more.

(8) effingpot.com/index.shtml is an American Guide to the British speak. Seven sections - slang, people, driving a car, clothes around the House, food and drink and odds and sods - contain more than a thousand words and expressions, the differences between the United States and the United Kingdom.

(9) Cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/ offers free Cliff notes to literature, writing, mathematics, science, test prep, and information about college scholarships and grants.

10. And non-verbal gestures, signs and body language I recommend ChangingMinds.org.

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Use of online encyclopedia and reference resources - as they help students, teachers and researchers

It was a big jump in the research, which is done by students, teachers and research alike. While its use has increased, there are still a large majority of these groups that would rather not online resources, or not, just use. There is also a large percentage of people, especially in academia, which find unreliable online encyclopedias. This setting has an unfortunate because online reference materials are often correct than their printed counterparts as factual. To discuss the benefits of the finding of facts online, it is important, the question from the perspective of both student and teacher/researcher to address.

Student benefits of using an online encyclopedia

1. Speed

It's much faster online encyclopedias use to do research than to spend hours in the library. If you work online, the student must find just the encyclopedia of their choice and type in a search term. From here the focus of their research can be enabled students a series of articles in connection with. You will be able to gather a wealth of information in a matter of minutes. This same process can literally take hours in the use of printed materials in a library.

2. Updated information

If you get to use an online encyclopedia, students updated information. If the facts change, these changes are transferred from the online reference materials. Printed material this is not easy. Printed the book, can not be modified. Many schools and libraries have encyclopedias that are five or ten years old. Students who are forced to use these materials may be absorbing information, which has been long out of date.

3. Depth and width

As online encyclopedias be updated constantly, they have more depth and breadth than a traditional encyclopedia. This gives students the opportunity to find much more information about a particular subject. In addition, if they focus on a topic that is not known, it can be found in traditional printed reference works. A final advantage is that if there is a quote or a footnote in an online encyclopedia, it often is accompanied by a link to the original source. This results in a simple way, further information collect and easily reference original sources.

When the online encyclopedias use benefits teachers and researchers

1. Create a connection

Students are on the Internet and everything, what has to offer it at a growing rate. Through the use of online reference material, you are able to connect with the students. This will usually increase their attention to the project and increase their overall level of commitment. A more engaged student will not only harder work, but keep of course also more information that can be found.

2. Image building

In order for a teacher or researcher taken seriously and more respected they must win the approval of the audience. With more people use the Internet a teacher or researcher seems natural that they have deployed resources acceptable, find their audiences would be their image to improve this.

Should online encyclopedias and trusted reference materials?

While the benefits of using online reference materials to find important facts is whether or not it trusts are can the debate for some time. The core of this debate is a big problem; Where do online reference materials and encyclopedias get their information. They obtained their information resources from low-quality, the information is probably wrong. There are many printed encyclopedias and reference materials that have been replicated as the Encyclopedia Britannica online, and are regarded as legitimate. The most popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia and similar sites, is often criticized.

Because each Wikipedia can contribute, many scholars argue that it is full of errors and inaccurate information. The founder of the Wikipedia to admit that may be inaccurate, but overall it shockingly factual has found his some information. To contribute to the a Wikipedia entry, they must be quoted. It is then verified by editors and the quote must be from a source, the neutral and proven is factually correct. In fact, several studies have been carried out and came to the conclusion that Wikipedia almost as objectively accurate Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta. If you, if Wikipedia can be trusted, think any questions, remember that it took over 70 years and thousands of contributors, including a prisoner in an asylum for the criminally insane, creating original Oxford English Dictionary. Just because thousands of people have made a contribution, by nature do not do, from the information wrong.

Information to get started with online research, you can to juggle an encyclopedia and reference resource give a try.

Resources mentioned in this article include also Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.

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