Food for Thought - February-March 2003
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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
February - March 2003
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - Using numeric keypad to create symbols
Did you Know - One space or two after sentence ending?
Recommendations
Arts
Grammar
References
Science/Technology
Writing/Journalism
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NOTE FROM JUDY
1. Welcome to another edition of Food for Thought. I can't tell you
how much I enjoy searching out interesting sites for you to visit.
Since I'm combining two issues, I have lots of links for your review.
Let me know if there's a category you'd like covered more often.
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - To type the symbol for one-half (½),
* Make sure your Num Lock (numeric) keypad is on
* Hold down the Alt key
* Type 189 on the keypad, then release the Alt key
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DID YOU KNOW - ONE SPACE OR TWO AFTER SENTENCE ENDING?
Q. Back when I was a student, we were taught to leave two spaces
between sentences. In my profession, however, we have been told
that this is no longer the standard policy, and that you should only
leave one space between them. I was also taught to leave two spaces
following a colon or semicolon. Have the times truly changed, or is
this a matter of modern teachers failing to correctly instruct their
students?
A. Sometimes it depends on the "house" style or specific style guide.
If you're using something like APA, Turabian, MLA, Microsoft, etc.,
follow that particular guide.
For general writing, Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage, fifth edition, by Muriel Harris says (p. 404)"Leave one space before the next sentence."
According to The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, by William A. Sabin,(102) "As a general rule, use one space after the period at the end of a sentence, but switch to two spaces whenever you feel a stronger visual break between sentences is needed. In all cases, the deciding factor should be the appearance of the breaks between sentences in a given document."
The Copyeditor's Handbook, Amy Einsohn, says (p. 113) the conventions are: "One space follows a sentence-ending punctuation mark (period, question mark, or exclamation point)." Einsohn also advocates one space following a comma, colon, or semicolon.
More from Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press) at:
http://tinyurl.com/71wr
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
AUDIO BOOKS FOR FREE
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp
THE D.K. WILGUS ARCHIVE OF FOLKSONG AND MUSIC
Southern California was the site of a number of historic folk festivals
during the sixties and seventies. This archive is a repository of
approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, song, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/folklore/music/
FANTASTIC ZOOLOGY
A graphical interpretation of J.L. Borges "Book of Imaginary Beings"
The complete series of illustrations was done by the graduate students
in the Department of Illustration and Art of the Book at the Vakalo
School of Art and Design in Athens, Greece.
http://www.hum.au.dk/romansk/borges/vakalo/zf/html/preface.html
FEATHER FANS
http://www.geocities.com/felicitax/Fans.htm
FREE OLD-TIME RADIO SHOWS
http://www.radiolovers.com/allshows.html
MUSIC THEORY
Tutorials for students and teachers by Ricci Adams. Grade Level:
Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School, High School,
College, Adult/Professional
http://www.musictheory.net/
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign up twice a year for daily e-mail lessons. Quizzes take four minutes
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
REFERENCE-GENERAL
AGRICULTURE LAW.COM
Searchable collection of news, special reports, statutes, regulations
and legislation, a dictionary, and more. The company is dedicated to
providing farmers and ranchers with the most complete source of timely information and ideas on agricultural policy.
http://www.agriculturelaw.com/
ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES
The mission of AFN is to enhance and promote the cultural, economic
and political voice of the entire Alaska Native community.
http://www.nativefederation.org/flash.html
ASKNOW - AskNow! is a pilot initiative of the Council of Australian
State Libraries (CASL). It extends currently available library
reference services using 24/7 Reference software.
http://tinyurl.com/5dry
CARNIVAL (CARNY) LINGO: WONDER WYANT
http://tinyurl.com/7hsc
CRIMECULTURE.COM
Covers true crime, thrillers, mystery writers, crime films, and gives
reading lists, articles links, and courses on writing detective and
crime fiction.
http://www.crimeculture.com/
CYBURBIA: THE URBAN PLANNING PORTAL
Resources for planners, city officials, etc. Includes sections on land
use, zoning, community revitalization, growth issues, transportation,
housing, and urban design.
http://directory.cyburbia.org/
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLAIMS, FRAUDS AND HOAXES OF THE OCCULT
AND SUPERNATURAL from James Randi Educational Foundation
http://tinyurl.com/5plq
ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA
an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It
contains over 6100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural
beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.
http://www.pantheon.org/
FAMOUS TRIALS
From Doug Linder, faculty, University of Missouri Kansas City. A
home page of thumbnails that lead to various trials throughout history.
From Socrates to O.J. Simpson: timelines, photos, excerpts from the
trials, maps, etc.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm
GOOGLE LANGUAGE TOOLS
Translates short amounts of text or an entire Web page using over 30
languages.
http://www.google.com/language_tools.
HOW TO SAY "THANK YOU" IN MORE THAN 400 LANGUAGES - Jennifer Runner
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm
INFOGRAPHY
Enables a student, librarian, or teacher to identify superlative
sources of information about a subject of inquiry, viewed through
the lens of expert opinion. The subject specialists who select the
citations published in The Infography are professors, librarians,
and other scholars who know the literature about their subjects of
expertise, who know which information sources are seminal for
research.
http://www.fieldsofknowledge.com/infography.html
INFORNATION
An easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and
compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States
of the United Nations.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY
ADVICE TO SHORTWAVE NEWBIES - Daniel A. Grunberg
http://www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/advcnwbe.ssi
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY - The Society's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.
http://www.journals.asm.org/
ERIC WEISSTEIN'S WORLD OF MATHEMATICS - The Web's most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein, with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
FINDING IMAGES ON THE WEB
http://www.bu.edu/library/training/webimages.htm
GEOMETRY JUNKYARD
Usenet clippings, web pointers, lecture notes, research excerpts,
papers, abstracts, programs, problems, and other stuff related to
discrete and computational geometry.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/
UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY COMPUTER SCIENCE LINKS
http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm
WRITING/JOURNALISM
ALLREADERS.COM - Choose from hundreds of plot, theme, character,
and setting options to find precisely what you're looking for! Read the reviews. Create your own review.
http://www.allreaders.com/
ANECTDOTAGE.COM - several thousand anecdotes
http://anecdotage.com/
BOOKS FOR ACADEMICS - Humanities & Social Sciences
Click on a genre to find all publishers for that category. Also
categories for Education, Business & Professional, Reference, and
Scientific, Technical, & Medical.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/bfa/arts.htm
CAPITALIZATION RULES AND EXAMPLES
From United States Government Printing Office Style Manual
http://www.access.gpo.gov/styleman/2000/chapter_txt-3.html
http://www.access.gpo.gov/styleman/2000/chapter_txt-4.html
CYBERJOURNALIST.NET
Focuses on how the Internet, media convergence and new technologies are changing journalism. Tips, news and commentary about online journalism, digital storytelling, converged news operations and using the Internet as a reporting tool.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/greatwork/
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