Online resources

Title and description	Weblink
Writing, editing and grammar
Grammar Girl - Quick and dirty tips for better writing	http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
Online technical writing textbook	http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook
Purdue University: Online writing lab	http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Neurology useful information about science writing (including use of tenses)	http://www.neurology.org/misc/sugg.htm
Finding things
Scirus is a general science online search engine - a mine of information for all types of science information and references	http://www.scirus.com
PubMed -a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes more than 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Comprehensive listing of animal and plant species	http://www.sp2000.org
Biomedical acronym resolver	http://invention.swmed.edu/argh
The British National Formulary - great for checking tricky drug names	http://www.bnf.org
Tools
Tinyurl - to replace long URLs	http://tinyurl.com
Stylewriter - plain English editing program	http://www.editorsoftware.com
Macquarie Dictionary and Macquarie Thesaurus	http://www.macquarieonline.com.au/index.html
Chicago Manual of Style	http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
The Elements of Style	http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html