Web
Portal for Advanced Business Writing
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SEARCHING THE WWW (generally)
Google Advanced Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Metacrawler (using a number of search engines) & a newspaper-like
homepage
www.go2net.com
Free vs. private WWW (the “private” web often features electronic academic
research)
www.library.kent.edu/internet/webtypes.html
WWW search tutorial
http://class.kent.edu/public/kent379/index.html
Evaluating websites
http://www.library.kent.edu/internet/criteria.html
Internet research
http://www.usus.org/
ARTICLE SEARCHES
Specialized searches on the
“private” web (through KSU) for periodicals,
including Business Source Premier & Academic Source Premier
www.library.kent.edu/indexes/buslaw.html
BUSINESS RESEARCH
Company
Information (KSU Library):
www.library.kent.edu/subjects/business/company.html
Better Business Bureau
www.bbb.com or www.bbb.org
The “Biz Tech” Network
www.brint.com
Information Week
www.informationweek.com
Tech Update
www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/
Small business administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov
Collection of short business articles
www.dealconsulting.com
Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov
Investment research
http://www.cnbc.com or
http://finance.yahoo.com
or
http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/market/home.asp
or
www.smartmoney.com
or
www.cnnfn.com or
Top 10 Business Events
http://www.thestreet.com/basics/countdown/747965.html
Census fact-finding
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
Small Business Advice
http://www.bizmove.com/
100 biggest companies on the web
http://metamoney.com/usListIndex.html
Company research
http://bwnt.businessweek.com/company/search.asp
Business terms
http://4hb.com/25a.html
Networking Tips
http://4hb.com/0205index.html
Running a Business
http://www.ehow.com/center/index.jsp?indexID=1026
Small Business Administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
CIA world fact finder
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Fed-stats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
BUSINESS
WRITING
Writing a business plan
http://www.planware.org/bizplan.htm
Step-by-step Letter Writing
www.businessletterpunch.com
Sample Business Letters
http://4hb.com/letters/index.html
Job-related Letters
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/careers/jobsearchtech/library/bl-business-letters.htm
STATISTICS
& GRAPHS
Electronic Statistics Textbook
www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
Beginner’s Statistics
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/
Graphics How-to
www.free-clip-images.com
How to use Excel to plot graphs
http://cstl-cst.semo.edu/venezian/utilities/graphs.htm
or
www.uoregon.edu/~gchem/geol310/excel.htm
Graph examples
http://www.visualmining.com/examples/index.html or
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/jefferson/calfieri/graphs/BarGraph.html
or
www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/GRAPHS.HTM
CAREER
RESEARCH
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
Wall Street Journal’s career guide
www.careerjournal.com
KSU’s Career Services Center
http://dept.kent.edu/career/
Interview Help
www.401kcareers.com/interviewtips.html
Dress for success
http://www.kiwicare.com/dress.htm.
or
http://www.quintcareers.com/dress_for_success.html
Basics on Marketing careers
http://fisher.osu.edu/marketing/careers/index.htm
Job search
http://jobs.asiaco.com/resources/
or
www.HotJobs.com or
www.Monster.com or
other links at
http://dept.kent.edu/career/Links/l_indices.shtml
JOURNALS
ON-LINE
New York Times online (free w/registration)
www.nytimes.com
Wall Street Journal online (part of it is free)
www.wsj.com
Business Week online (part of it is free)
www.businessweek.com
Forbes online
www.forbes.com
Fortune
http://www.fortune.com/
Economist
http://www.economist.com/
Money
http://money.cnn.com/
PC Magazine
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/
PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/
Time
http://www.time.com/time/
Newsweek
www.newsweek.com
SOCIETIES
American Marketing Association
http://www.marketingpower.com/index.php?&Session_ID=ed888ab7bb255e84d8459ea88f3a71ef
Artificial intelligence
www.Generation5.org
Association of CPAs
http://www.ap-cpa.org/
Society for Human Resource Management
http://www.shrm.org
KSU student organizations
http://business.kent.edu/undergrad/sohp.asp
PRESENTATIONS
How to give a bad talk(!?)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/conference-talk.html#badtalk
Presentations for management
www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art1.html
Presentation basics
www.teleport.com/~phillip/tufte.html
Presentation introductions and toasts
www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/toast/tips.html
Articles on public speaking
http://www.public-speaking.org
LOCAL
PUBLIC LIBRARY LINKS
Kent Free Library (Kent’s public library)
http://www.kentfree.lib.oh.us/
MLA
DOCUMENTATION
On-line comprehensive documentation guide w/many examples & a sample paper
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/english.html
Internet documentation common problems, included how to put URLs in angle
brackets, that is, <www.mla.org>
instead of www.mla.org
(from there, click on
MLA STYLE, click on FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS)
APA
DOCUMENTATION
On-line comprehensive documentation guide w/many examples & a sample
paper
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/social_sciences/intext.html
SPECIAL
INTEREST TO KSU STUDENTS
KSU Writing Center Handouts
http://dept.kent.edu/english/WritingCentersHub
KSU Home page (includes email & phone number directories)
http://www.kent.edu
Student Resource Center
http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SRCCE/form;$sessionid$LTBZ3YYAAATX3RTQVF0AAAA?finalAuth=true&authRedir=true&s=1&n=10&l=1
GENERAL
WRITING GUIDES
Strunk’s The Elements of Style, complete
and w/a search engine
www.bartleby.com/141/
Advice on academic writing
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html
Advice on research & writing
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html
Other guides to usage, style, and composition
http://www.bartleby.com/usage/
Writing tips
http://www.basic-learning.com/tips-index.htm
Dartmouth’s tips on composition
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/student/ac_paper/what.html
Grammar & writing
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm#
Guide to essay writing
http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/
Sources for quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/
Latin phrases (why not?)
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/englatin.htm
Webgrammar
http://www.webgrammar.com/writing.html
GENERAL
RESEARCH
Internet public library
www.ipl.org
Librarian’s Index to the Internet
www.lii.org
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/default.htm
Reference desk
http://www.refdesk.com/
American Heritage Dictionary
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/
The Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
More dictionaries & thesauri links
http://www.library.kent.edu/readyref/diction.html
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Last Updated: July 11, 2003