"Every seminar and class that I attended was more and more energizing, and the ability to speak with entrepreneurs became a true asset every week."
Marty Petrullo, Great Escapes Candle Company

"Knowing that I wanted to open a photography studio was the easy part, figuring out how to do so successfully was the challenge. The Business Basics program gave me the knowledge, guidance and confidence to take what I had learned and put it into practice."
Rachel Spiewak-Hills, Rachel Spiewak Photography

"The program not only exceeded my expectations, it provided the necessary tools to help us successfully launch Garden Strategies and to grow our business into something we are proud to call our own."
Bob Chrystian, Garden Strategies

 

Click on the links below to access resources and resource topics.

Reference Resources
Dictionaries, business glossaries, grammar guides, etc.

Acronym Finder
With more than 900,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations. New! You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.

Atlapedia
 Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. The Countries A to Z section provides facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy and more. The World Maps section provides full color physical maps and political maps for regions of the world.

Bartleby.com
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Quotations, Shakespeare, Anatomy, Style, World Factbook, etc.

Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Following is the alphabetical index to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) revised fourth edition, as supplied electronically by the US Dept. of Labor.

Economist Economics A – Z Searchable Dictionary

Economist Style Guide
This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.

Encyclopedia.com
 Encyclopedia.com features more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, abbreviations, and more.

English as a Second Language
Welcome to this English as a Second Language website, a starting point for ESL learners who want to study English through the Web. This site is being constantly updated, so your comments and suggestions are appreciated. With your help, it can continue to be a site that you and others enjoy visiting.

Forvo
All the words in the world. Pronounced.

Global Edge International Business Glossary

Glossary of Marketing, Advertising, Internet, and Promotion Terms
Partners & Levit is a full service advertising agency that leverages marketing research, branding, advertising, sales promotion, direct mail and the new media to guide prospects along the sales continuum until they become customers. Their online Glossary provides definitions to hundreds of marketing terms.

Grammar Handbook
 Thank you for using the Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum.

Internet Acronym Server
words (Greek: acro [head] and nym [word]) -- or very rarely, from letters in the middle of words. There is no requirement that an acronym be pronounceable as a normal word (this is a curious myth perpetuated by American dictionaries): IBM is just as much an acronym as LASER. You can search here for acronyms and for words used in acronyms.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus
Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables.

N. Y. Times Glossary of Financial and Business Terms
Over 2,500 Entries. Compiled by Campbell R. Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Purdue University O.W.L. Grammar Guide
 The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

Refdesk
Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.

TechEncyclopedia
Definitions for more than 20,000 Information Technology terms.

University of Calgary: The Basic Elements of English Grammar Guide
Welcome to the grammar tutorials offered by the English Department at the University of Calgary. We have divided the tutorials into four major sections: Parts of Speech, Sentence Elements, Punctuation and Word Use. You can test your grammar skills and get immediate feedback by trying the exercises at the end of the tutorials.

University of Wisconsin Writer’s Handbook – Grammar and Punctuation
In this section, you will find many instructional materials we've developed for our Writing Center teaching. The Grammar and Punctuation handbook provide clear examples of common mistakes and how to avoid them.

US SBA Business Glossary
 Search for business terms by: All Definitions, Complete Phrase, Any Word in Phrase, Starts With or Ends With.

Wordsmyth
 Wordsmyth’s aim, from the beginning, was to write for a general audience who wanted a readable source of information about meanings. We wanted to reach people in their offices, workplaces, homes, and schools. We wanted to produce the highest quality and most readable definitions possible. The result of our work is a dictionary that has several important and distinctive qualities: (1) clarity, simplicity, and precision of style resulting in definitions that are more accessible than those of American college dictionaries; and (2) the integration of dictionary and thesaurus data.

Writing Tips
 Thank you for using the Writing Tips Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This Handbook offers advice on various elements of the writing process. To go directly to a specific topic, click on the appropriate item in the following index.

WSU Common Errors in English
 The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities or lost business at the way you write or speak. This is not a site dealing with grammar in general, but with errors in usage. You will find certain words or phrases criticized here listed in dictionaries. Note carefully labels like dial. (dialectical), nonstandard, and obsolete before assuming that the dictionary is endorsing them. The goal of a usage guide like this is substantially different: to protect you against patterns which are regarded by substantial numbers of well-educated people as nonstandard.