In this part — a collection of some general resources — daily sites of interest, writing sites, & free books sites
See also,
Part 2 of 4 Open Learning
Part 3 of 4 Mathematics
Part 4 of 4 Computers (Learning)
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
Google Search Guide Advance Operators — to help improve your searches. Most people probably know this, but some might not.
DAILY SITES
http://www.freshnews.org/
Nice computer/tech aggregate news site from major sites such as digg, slashdot, reddit, yahoo, hacker news, ars technica + many many more in a user friendly format. Skim news from multiple sites quickly.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Astonomy Pic of the day
http://www.freerice.com/
Improve vocabulary while “For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.” Difficulty adjusts depending on correct and wrong answers. Visit for a minute or so every day, learn new words and donate a few grains.
Word of the DAY
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
http://www.infoplease.com/wordoftheday
Improve your vocabulary. thefreedictionary site also has “match up” of 5 words in addition to wotd.
WRITING
Online Dictionaries
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://dictionary.infoplease.com/
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/home.html
Diana Hacker Research and Documentation Citations MLA, APA, CSE Guidelines
http://www.sfwriter.com/mschklst.htm
Manuscript Format Checklist
http://www.teresciaharvey.com/hea/articles/wordformat.html
Document Templates Using Standard Manuscript Format
http://www.sff.net/people/dan.perez/writing/writing.htm
Dan Perez Writing Advice
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_guid.php
A beginner’s guide to freelancing
http://www.freelancewriting.com/freelance-writing-jobs.php
Freelance Writing Jobs
http://www.copyscape.com/
Search for copies of your page on the web.
http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/26/the-6-steps-to-stop-content-theft/
The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
Common Errors in English Usage
BOOKS
http://educhoices.org/articles/Online_Libraries_-_25_Places_to_Read_Free_Books_Online.html
25 Places to Read Free Books Online
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikibooks – free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page
http://www.theassayer.org/
Catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
No need for description, is there?
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1
Free PDF eBooks Archive. Small Selection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects
List of digital library projects
http://users.erols.com/jonwill/freebooks.htm
Links to thousands of books that are free on the Internet
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/200178/e-books/199/a_to_z_list_of_e-books
Univ. of Leeds Library Services A to Z list of e-books.
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
List of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet (includes computer and maths books as well).
