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EN 6301 - Academic Writing for International Students

Resources to assist students in researching and writing compositions.

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Search the Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
A historical dictionary that is the accepted authority on the English language as an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

Gale eBooks

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Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search.

This resource was formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library

Oxford Reference

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Searchable full text encyclopedias and other reference works published by Oxford University Press. Note: Limited titles in our subscription.

Fun Stuff

Visuwords™ Online Graphical Dictionary
Look up words to find their associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams that look like a neural net. Learn how words associate.