TO POLISH YOUR LANGUAGE STYLE
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/organize/style.html
TO FIND JUST THE RIGHT WORD
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/organize/dict.html
TO FIND A RHYMING WORD
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
TO FIND A GREAT QUOTATION FROM A FAMOUS PERSON
This site gives you access to Bartlett's Quotations, a comprehensive collection
of quotations by famous people. This site can help you find a great opening or closing
quote for your speech.
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
TO FIND OUT WHAT A NON-ENGLISH WORD MEANS
Wordbot is a Website that translates words from several languages into English.
TO HELP YOU FIND JUST THE RIGHT WORD
Check out Roget's Thesaurus to find a more precise way of phrasing an idea.
TO HELP YOU WITH GRAMMAR
Even though many word processing programs include built-in grammar programs, consider this
Website as an additional source of information for grammar rules:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
STRUNK AND WHITE'S THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE
This is another great grammar site.
Try this: To sharpen your skill in analyzing messages and developing ways to stylize a messages, go to the following site (http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/) to hear a speech by a famous orator. Note how the speaker uses words to:
1 . Create drama
2 . Create cadence
3 . Uses metaphors and similes
4. Uses personification
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