Useful research-related external sites

• AARE
  Home page of the Australian Association for Research in Education. This site contains searchable abstracts and papers from the annual conferences from 1999 onwards.
• AERA
  Home page of the American Educational Research Association.
• Australian Bureau of Statistics.
• British Library Virtual Reference Guide
  includes, via the link to style guides, rules and examples for citing and referencing online resources.
• Common Errors in English.
  This is the site to access if you need to work out whether to use 'affect' or 'effect' in your sentence.
• National Library of Australia: guide to Internet resources.
• Non-Sexist Language.
  Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language.
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus.
• Strunk - Elements of Style.
  The essential guide for grammar and good writing style.
• The Heteronym home page.
  This homepage is about heteronyms, a type of word. See what it's all about!
• The Slot.
  A spot for copy editors.
• Virtual facts on file.
  This resource allows you to search a wide range of atlases, maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias, histories, phone books, area codes, statistics on population and demography, thesauri & dictionaries of quotations. What else could you need?
• Webster's Dictionary.