Thursday, January 25, 2007

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

Type of source-
Dictionary

Bibliographic information-
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary; Eleventh Edition; Merriam-Webster, Incorporated; Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Copyright 2003 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

Subject(s) coverage/scope-
Dictionaries cover every interest. One may turn to the dictionary for the last word not only for definitions and spelling, but for pronunciation, meaning, syllabication (word division), and other points.

List of all access methods provided-
Table of contents, explanatory chart, explanatory notes, guide to pronunciation, abbreviations in this work, pronunciation symbols, foreign words and phrases, biographical names, geographical names, signs and symbols, a handbook of style, capitals and italics, documentation of sources, forms of address, index

Arrangement of access methods-
Main headings, subheadings, cross references

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.