I would like to recommend another excellent online resource: Answers.com. Just put in a word (or more) that you’re looking for answers on, and they’ll give you some answers. What’s nice is that your results include related terms (with links to them, so you can go right there), dictionary definitions (thanks, Houghton Mifflin!), encyclopedia entries (from Columbia University Press), the complete article from Wikipedia, translations (from WizCom Technologies, Ltd.), and Best of the Web links.

That’s a TON of information, right at your fingertips. And it’s even better than just going to Wikipedia, because THAT’S included, with tons of other useful sources.

And lest we seem to become overdependent on Internet-based resources, they have the complete citation list at the bottom of the page. For every article they included. Even better… they have a “Cite” button. Click that for the article you want to cite and they take you to a page where you can select MLA, Chicago, or APA format and have it provided!

Example:

APA: football. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved August 12, 2005, from Answers.com Web site: http://www.answers.com/topic/football

MLA: “football.” Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2005. Answers.com GuruNet Corp. 12 Aug. 2005. http://www.answers.com/topic/football

Chicago: football. Answers.com. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Columbia University Press., 2003. http://www.answers.com/topic/football, accessed August 12, 2005.

Pretty nice, don’t you think?