Technical Writing: Web Sites

If one word will do the work of two, let it. See this list of suggested phrases to streamline your writing.

Free online textbook for technical writing

From educational and research content to the latest news, features, and commentary, TechWhirl offers something for everyone who needs to know about technical communication and content management.

ChartGo, the online chart maker. Create rich and colorful charts. To begin, click on 'create graph'. Or pick a graph from the carousel to use as a template. Visit the Guide or Video Demo page (right side of the screen) for more information.

The page helps you chose the kind of graph you want, design it, add data and labels, and print, save, or email it.

Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on a website. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types.

This webpage article lists "some of the best web services that allow you to create professional charts and graphs online".

Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is copyright safe and free for teachers and students. You can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

Clip art. A lengthy list of websites with public-domain (free to use) or Creative Commons (mostly free to use) clip art, photographs, and images. Very useful webpage.

Facts and statistics about the United States from the U.S. Census Bureau.

This English Usage Index includes 427 explanations of grammar, writing, and composition.

Facts and statistics about the countries of the world.

Dictionary.com provides millions of English definitions, spellings, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and word origins. Dictionary.com also offers a Word of the Day, a Synonym of the Day, word games and solvers. The thesaurus provides over 550,000 synonyms.

Translate terms from one language to another. (With perhaps a few mistakes, because this is computer translation. Try translating the result back into English to check for possible errors or misunderstandings.)

Excellent information on researching and writing papers. One of the best writing sites on the web, from Purdue University. Writing a research paper?

Reviews rules of English usage and composition. An online version of William Strunk, Jr.'s 1918 classic reference on writing English.

Don't want to repeat a word several times? Look up synonyms here.