Style & Writing

• Strunk & White
• Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
• Citation Guides
• Guide to Legal Citation
• Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
• Common Errors in English
• Purdue Online Writing Lab handouts
• Turabian Citation Generator
• Textalyser (word counts)

• The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (the whole Internet back to 1996)
• Open CRS (Congressional Research Service Reports)
• Technorati (searching blogs)
• Picsearch (pictures)
• Google US Government Search
• Internet Movie Archive
• Library of Congress catalog
• US Government Printing Office
• The Political Graveyard (biographical info on political figures)
• The Smoking Gun (primary sources, usu. scandal)
• The Memory Hole (more primary sources)
• Acronym Finder
• Respectfully Quoted (reliable dictionary of quotations)
• Insanely Useful Websites

• Political science links (U of MI)
• American Political Science Association
• JSTOR (full text of scholarly journals)
• Kennedy School of Government research
• Political Organizations & Parties (APSA)
• Online Guide to American Political History
• Political science conference papers
• Midwest PS Association conference papers

• Federal Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of US
• Historical Statistics of US/Old Statistical Abstracts
• Statistics.com
• Economic Indicators
• Nationmaster (comparative international data)
• Statistical Assessment Service (analysis of stat use)
• U of MI Stats Links
• The Dismal Scientist (econ stats)
• CPI deflator calculator
• GDP deflator calculator
• "How Much Is That" (historical econ data)