Style & Writing

• Elements of Style, version 1.0
• Citing Government Documents
• Berkeley 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                                                                      

• The Internet Archive Wayback Machine (the whole Internet back to 1996)
• CRS reports
• Official site
• EveryCRSReport
• FAS compilation of CRS reports
• Moving Image Archive
• Library of Congress catalog
• Melissa (finding people, addresses, zips, maps)
• How Many of Me (# of Americans with a given name)
  
• The Political Graveyard (biographical info on political figures)
• The Smoking Gun (primary sources, usu. scandal)
• Acronym Finder
• Map of Every Building in the United States
• Respectfully Quoted (reliable dictionary of quotations)

• American Political Science Association
• JSTOR (full text of scholarly journals)
• WikiSummary (social science summary database)
• Kennedy School of Government research
• The Monkey Cage (poli sci blog)
• Top Poli Sci Blogs

• USA Facts
• USA.gov Stats
• Wolfram Alpha (computational database)
• Data.gov
• Statistical Abstract of US
• Historical Statistics of the US -- 1975 ed.
• Economic Indicators
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Nationmaster (comparative international data)
• Measuring Worth: deflators & relative values
• Symbolab statistics calculator
• Graph calculator