Professor John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7
CANADA
e-mail: john.munro@utoronto.ca

Updated on 9 September 2011

OTHER AIDS TO ASSIST YOU IN WRITING ESSAYS AND EXAMS IN ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, including some from other web sites

• Instructions on Writing Term Essays, in pdf format. Also in MS Word.

• Grades on the Mid-Year Tests and Term Essays: How to Get An "A": (without bribes), in pdf format. Also in MS Word .

• Tips On Studying for the Final Examination: in ECO 301Y, in html format (with web links to other documents.

• Tips On Studying for the Final Examination: in ECO 303Y, in html format (with web links to other documents.

• On the Importance of Writing Essays in Economic History

• An Explanation of Why Some Students Do Poorly on the Final Examination: in pdf format. Also available in MS-Word. This document was created as my reflection on the final examination results in my two economic history courses, in April 2008. But from my files, I see that I had made virtually the same comments on previous years's final examinations.

• The Academic Offence of Plagiarism. Also available in in pdf format, somewhat differently formatted.

• How Not to Plagiarize: a web document created by Dr. Margaret Proctor, U of T Coordinator, Writing Support, at the University of Toronto.

• A Guide to Writing Better English: Common Faults in English Grammar and Syntax, in pdf format. Also in MS Word; and in html format.

• MS International computer-keyboard codes : seek the accented letter (French, German, Greek, etc.), or symbol (£, ¥); and then hold down the ALT key, while typing the three digit number associated with that letter or symbol.

• The Oxford English Dictionary Online: Licensed to the University of Toronto

• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

• The Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Lewis and Short: A Latin Dictionary: on line.

• Online Latin Dictionaries: a guide to various online Latin dictionaries (including Lewis and Short, as above).

• Reference.com: a combined dictionary, thesauras, and encyclopedia web-site.

• Dictionary.Reference.com: The dictionary component of the preceding website.

• Roget's Thesaurus: lexicon for synonyms, antonyms. Or this site

• Wordsmyth: the Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• The Phrase Finder: with a google search engine.

• H.W. Fowler: The King's English (2nd edn. London, 1908).

• William Strunk: The Elements of Style (New York, 1918).

• The Human-Languages Page (iLoveLanguages) : A multilingual collection of dictionaries, glossaries, and other language tools.

• AltaVista the Search Company: Translate with Babel Fish. A very simple- to-use (and free) machine for translating words or phrases from many languages into English (and from English into those languages)

• FreeTranslation Another simple-to-use and "free" translater

• The InterTran Translater: a more complex translater (but not as complex as StarTrek's Universal Translater), with more languages; but full use requires purchase of the software.

• Google Language Tools: another translating web tool.