Writers and Editors

See more excellent up-to-the-minute resources under Blogs. For links to resources on language and usage, see Style, grammar, word choice, and pronunciation.

Scroll to the bottom of this page to find links for checking out hoaxes and urban legends.

Several websites are devoted to fact-checking and identifying hoaxes and urban legends. Before you forward that "true fact," e-mail petition, warning, amazing opportunity, or piece of gossip, run it by one of these sites. To check out accuracy in media reports, go to Regret the Error (http://www.regrettheerror.com/)as well as the "Accuracy in Media" sites it links to.