Writing Resources
These are just a collection of resources for a variety of writers.
- Writing and researching
- Technical writing
- Editing
- Indexing
- Research writing
- Online bibliographies (research writing)
- Tools: LaTeX/BibTeX
General writing and researching resources
Books
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition - William Strunk Jr., E.B. White and Roger Angell (And a free online searchable version)
Courses & worksheets
- RMIT Writing Lab - free online course
- English basics - grammar worksheets - useful for teaching and review
- Writing and humanistic studies - from MIT Open courseware
- A list of 10 free writing courses - usually offered by US universities, a post written by Education Portal.
Technical writing
Books/Magazines
- The Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th edition), Wiley and Sons
Organisations
- STC - Society for Technical Communication
- ASTC (Vic) - Australian Society for Technical Communication (Victoria)
- ASTC (NSW) - Australian Society for Technical Communication (NSW)
Editing
Organisations
- ANZSI - Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers
Indexing
- SOCED - Society of Editors (Vic) Inc.
Writing for research
Online bibliographies
LaTeX/BibTeX
- CTAN TeX community - has heaps of links
- TeX User Group Another huge collection of TeX links.
- Tobias Oetiker's LaTeX Tutorial
- Various tutorials On the TUG website
- BiBTeX - Brief Description
- CSE1402 Technical Documentation - many templates in the Prac section, descriptions of LaTeX use in the notes
- MikTeX - LaTeX for Windows.
