Writing links

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LANGUAGES

ONLINE TRANSLATORS

Several languages from/to English and English/Spanish-Spanish/English: http://www.online-translator.com/text.asp?lang=es

Catalan-Spanish-English-French-German: http://www.grec.cat/cgibin/mlt00.pgm?USUARI=comodi&source=XW

DICTIONARIES

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

Multilingual

The formerly known as "EURODICAUTOM" Term Bank. All EU languages, search by domain: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/

English

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

http://www.wordreference.com/ (also Bilingual Dictionary Spanish, French, Portuguese...)

http://www.wordsmyth.net/

http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm (also Spanish-English)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.visuwords.com/ (useful as a Thesaurus)

http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/ - Oxford collocations dictionary -- study of something? study on something? study into something? In OCD you'll find the answer ! The dictionary keeps changing locations, so this is the current link on Jan. 8th 2013

http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/ - write a long word and it'll suggest shorter synonyms

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ - it gives you readibility scores

Catalan

Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana: http://www.grec.net/home/cel/dicc.htm

CercaTerm: http://www.termcat.cat/

Diccionari Institut d'Estudis Catalans: http://dlc.iec.cat/

Corrector d'ortografia: http://www.softcatala.org/corrector/

Consulta dubtes: http://www6.gencat.net/llengcat/scripts/sial/menuas.asp

Online course: http://www.parla.cat/pres_catalaenlinia/AppPHP/login/index.php

Spanish

Diccionario de la RAE: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/

Chemistry Dictionaries

Multilingual: http://www.woc.science.ru.nl/translation/

STYLE

The Chicago Manual of Style: to check spelling, how to write citations etc http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org

For citations also check: http://pubs.acs.org/books/references.shtml (We have got a copy of the ACS Style Manual).

See the Writing Tips section too.

Grammarly Chrome app - spellchecker and editing tool

http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/ - write a long word and it'll suggest shorter synonyms

http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ - it gives you readibility scores

http://www.analyzemywriting.com/ - just awesome! It analyses several pameters (words & punctuation used, readibility scores etc)

https://www.languagetool.org/ - spellcheck and editing tool available in 20 languages, you can even select which variety of English your text is written in!

https://editsaurus.tylerwalters.com/

https://www.languagetool.org/ - you kind choose the variety of English (British, American, Australian...) to spellcheck in!

https://writefullapp.com/ - for Linux! Or Chrome app

Collocations

Interested in / about ? Study of / on? Find out here ttp://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary and here http://www.phraseup.com/