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Software for Writing Academic Papers and Dissertations

There is software available that automatically formats your paper, handles all necessary Word functions, automates citing references, and includes the most sophisticated input verification technology on the market. Whether you are writing a research paper, writing a dissertation or thesis, or simply creating a term paper, this software is the right choice for you. To learn more, click HERE...
 

 
Online Grammar Checker

There is a grammar checker available for identifying and fixing grammar mistakes in business documents such as business letters, business contracts, etc. The grammar checker checks and corrects all common errors found in business writing. A document that has been through this English grammar checker will look professional, ensuring that new customers will arrive. This grammar checker software spots the errors that most human readers would not catch. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
How to Write Reference Letters

Instant Recommendation Letter Kit is a unique information source that focuses on the writing of all types of recommendation letters and reference letters - personal, business, character, employment and college admission. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks, pointers, and information, the Kit includes a separate file with 79 real-life letter templates. To download the kit, click HERE...
 
 
How to Write & Publish a Book

On his webinar Garrett Pierson reveals a simple seven-step secret that instantly slashes the time to writing your book even if you are not a writer. The training package includes Garrett's book and 9 module training course. To register for the webinar, click HERE...
 
 
Story Creation Software

StoryCraft is more than just a writing tool. It is also a sophisticated complete course in writing that utilizes the Jarvis Method, the system of fiction writing that is the accepted standard among university writing programs around the world. StoryCraft is a story-processing program designed specifically for writing any kinds of stories - from short stories to screenplays and novels - that comes with history's greatest writing coaches built right into it. To find out more, click HERE...
 
 
How to be a Writer

You can be the next author to inspire millions of children around the world to pick up a book and discover the wonderful world of reading. Learn the writing methods of great writers. To discover the secrets of becoming a great writer, click HERE...
 
 
Confident Grammar System Method

New Confident Grammar System designed by Chris Louis can teach your students how to avoid embarrassing mistakes in English. They will get step-by-step coaching in the Success Audio Course with 8 in depth audio tutorials. To order and instantly download the Confident Grammar System, click HERE...
 
 
Performance Appraisals Ready-to-Use Phrases

Performance appraisals ready-to-use phrases can help you write professional and impressive appraisals. Remember that others are able to write better appraisals and get the promotion probably because they use phrases from guidebooks. Get a comprehensive list of phrases covering most of the categories of KPIs used by many companies worldwide. To download, click HERE...
 
 
Survival Skills

A comprehensive collection of resources for emergency preparedness, homesteading, and living a self-reliant lifestyle is available now. Find out what you might do in the event of economic collapse or hyperinflation, long-term depression, natural disaster, rogue attack, nuclear, chemical or biological fallout, political destabilization, organized gangs and criminals, and more. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
Moodle Tutorial

Moodle is a remarkable course management system that can be used to create impressive websites for various purposes. Step-by-step video tutorials reveal secrets on how to create Moodle sites. You will be trained everything needed to create Moodle sites. You will gain knowledge of different roles including Administrator Role, Course Creator Role, Teacher Role, Non-Editing Teacher Role, Student Role, Guest Role, and Authenticated User Role - so that you'll know how to specifically give access and control for each type of role. Hundreds of people have already used this program with amazing results. To learn more, click HERE...
Linguistics

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. - Mark Amidon



Linguistics studies language. It focuses on both theoretical and applied research in such fields as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, stylistics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, clinical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics and applied linguistics. Linguistics also studies features of text. It focuses on register, style, domain, sublanguage and genre.

If you are interested in conducting research at a Masters or PhD degree level in any field of linguistics, you will find many useful resources related to your linguistic research in this page: linguistic societies, associations of linguists, web pages of departments of linguistics at the most prestigious universities and websites designed by individual linguists.  


Best Websites for Linguists

Linguist List
Linguist List is one of the most popular websites. It contains information about dissertations, academic papers, texts and corpora, linguistic programs, collaboration projects, and useful linguistic links. It also gives an opportunity to become a Linguist List research assistant. To learn more, click HERE...

Summer Institute of Linguistics
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International studies documents and assists in developing the world’s lesser-known languages. It focuses on literacy, linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology, linguistic computing, translation and other academic disciplines. SIL’s linguistic investigation exceeds 1,800 languages spoken by over 1.2 billion people in more than 70 countries. SIL focuses on unwritten languages. People who speak these languages often live in geographic, social, and economic isolation...

Ethnologue
Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. It provides a comprehensive listing of the known living languages of the world. It also contains over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages, books about languages and cultures of the world and an extensive library for language researchers...

The Virtual Linguistics Campus
The Virtual Linguistics Campus (VLC) is the world's largest e-learning platform for linguistics. The VLC offers fully certified linguistic courses and course material for theoretical and applied linguistics. It also includes linguistic tools and all the communicative facilities necessary for successful e-learning...

The European Language Resources Association
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is the driving force that makes available the language resources for language engineering and evaluates language engineering technologies. ELRA collects, validates, standardizes, promotes and distributes the production of language resources...

The Linguistic Data Consortium
The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution...

E-Meld
E-meld is a 5-year project with a dual objective: (1) to assist in the protection of endangered languages data and documentation, (2) to assist in the development of the infrastructure needed for effective collaboration among electronic archives...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is an international professional organization. Since its establishment, it has been the major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials...
 
Orbis Latinus
Orbis Latinus includes languages, dialects, issues related to comparative linguistics, linguistic interaction, Romance languages and the relationship between the Romance-speaking nations...

The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
The Natural Language Processing Group at Stanford University is a team of faculty, postdocs and students who work together on algorithms that allow computers to process and understand human languages. Their work ranges from basic research in computational linguistics to key applications in human language technology and covers areas such as sentence understanding, probabilistic parsing and tagging, biomedical information extraction, grammar induction, word sense disambiguation, and automatic question answering...

Linguistic Atlas Projects
Linguistic Atlas Projects is a group of projects with one thing in common: studying dialects of English as it is spoken in the United States. The Linguistic Atlas Projects are a collection of studies performed for the last 80 years. The projects are arranged geographically...


UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics has been highly rated for the quality of teaching students of Phonetics, Linguistics and the English Language. It has been involved in a number of funded projects concerned with education in phonetics and speech communication, and offers a variety of software for analyzing sounds and signals, displaying waveforms and spectra, synchronizing display and audio, storing and analyzing speech data. The department has specialist facilities for research in the production and perception of speech, including an anechoic recording chamber and sound proofed booths in the Listening Centre. Learn MORE...
 
The Rutgers Optimality Archive
The Rutgers Optimality Archive is a big archive of papers (more than 500 papers) on one of the most influential theories of grammar, Optimality Theory, and also contains a bibliography and a mailing list. The Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA) is a distribution point for research in Optimality Theory. Posting in ROA is open to all who wish to disseminate their work in, on, or about Optimality Theory. To learn more, click HERE...

Annotated List of Resources
Statistical natural language processing and corpus-based computational linguistics: an annotated list of free downloadable resources...

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar pages provide an overview of the research on HPSG which has been conducted over the past few years: past and current projects, a survey of the leading ideas, and the past and present researchers who have been active in HPSG studies... In addition, there is some useful information about HPSG in Ohio State University website. Also, there are more links...

Omniglot
Omniglot is a useful website with language related articles. It gives useful tips on learning languages and writing systems...

Speech Internet Dictionary
Speech Internet Dictionary (SID) provides definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines. In addition, SID gives examples, provides illustrations and sound clips. To learn more, click HERE...

Richard Lederer's Verbivore
Richard Lederer's Verbivore website was woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. It is the website where carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. Dr. Lederer is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, Presidential Trivia...

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Applied Linguistics Databases
 
Major applied linguistics databases are available: language acquisition, language teaching, leading applied linguistics journals, article archives, software, education resources, assessment and more. To learn more, click HERE...

 
 
Ginger Software

Ginger Software enables users to produce error-free texts, quickly and easily. A unique text-correction algorithm automatically analyzes the context of errors in written English and selects the most appropriate semantic and grammatical correction. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
The Encyclopedia

Get information of the top experts. You will get your hands on the greatest and most powerful self-help resources. To learn more, click HERE...
 

 
Vocabulary Learning

The fastest way to learn essential English vocabulary: your students will learn English vocabulary from the list of 5000 most common words and expressions by watching vocabulary videos at intermediate to advanced level. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
Professional Animations

You can create professional 3D animations, games and graphic models like Pixar and Dreamworks in two hours or less... Let your imagination come alive with the easiest way to create stunning animations. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
Design Your Own Website

A website design course will assist you in graphic design, using Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, marketing and promoting your website. Web Design Mastery provides a simple way to learn HTML and create a website fast with hundreds of copy & paste codes. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
Data Recovery

WiseRecovery will help you to recover your lost Microsoft Word documents and photos. The scanning speed is very fast. To learn more, click HERE...
 
 
Unlock ANY Windows Password

It doesn't matter which version of Windows you have. It is a three-step process. To learn how to do it, click HERE..
 
 
How to Fix a Laptop

Learn how to fix laptops fast and easily. To start fixing, click HERE...
 
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