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 |
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