The Author’s Toolkit

Dear authors,

I see some improvement already.

Here are sites I encourage you to bookmark:

For definitions of a word:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

For synonyms:

https://www.thesaurus.com/

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.1002306557&view=1up&seq=9

For etymology:

https://www.etymonline.com/

As a Mason student, you can access Oxford English Dictionary here:

https://infoguides.gmu.edu/az.php?a=o

For Ngram charts:

https://books.google.com/ngrams

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755):

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/

Take McCloskey to heart. [The McCloskey Assignment is here.]

/Prof. Klein