Research-Reference Sites for Writers

Net writers and other writers need quality resources where they can find researched and catalogued information and facts on various subjects to aid them in creating high quality, and polished written works. I am providing in this post links to some of the sites I use to find reliable information and reference materials when I am conducting research on subjects I am not very familiar with, to get a better understanding of them before I begin writing about them.

It should already be understood what the intended use for these sites is, but just in case there is any doubt, let me put it to you in clear terms here and now. These researched and catalogued sites provide information and facts that writers can glean further understanding from on a wide variety of subjects they want to write about but are not well versed in themselves. The information and facts that you find through such useful sites are not there for you to copy or copy and paste into the documents that you are working on. That would be stealing and an infringement on the copyright laws protecting the original authors of the materials found on research and reference sites.

Now that we have gotten the legal and ethical use of the many online research sites writers can use to familiarize themselves with a huge array of subjects out of the way, here are the five research sites that I use the most, in random order. I will admit though that I use numbers (1 and 5) more frequently than the rest of those on my list. Yep, you will have to keep reading or scroll down, to find out what the two research sites I use most are.




!. http://www.about.com/ Scores of articles on many different subjects found here.

2. http://www.ehow.com/ Many articles on a vast array of subjects in a how-to format

3. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Plenty of useful articles various subjects outlining how that stuff works

4. http://www.webmd.com/ Useful informational articles on medical conditions, treatments, medicines and side effects, and health tips

5. http://www.wikipedia.com/ Find informational user-developed articles on almost every subject you can imagine, and even some you have never thought of


If you know of some more useful research-reference sites writers may want to visit to look for reliable reference materials to help them in their writing, please share them in this thread Thanks.