Christine A. LindbergCritiques

The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (2004)

Video review: https://youtu.be/-B4tytULE7U

Love this thesaurus! You never 'finish' reading a thesaurus.

I love looking through this just for fun. It is easy to find words. There are helpful hints as well so it makes it easier to remember which word is more appropriate to use. I just wish I had gotten this sooner as I am learning so many cool things and this is helping me write better!

This new edition of the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is more exceptional than ever, solidifying its place as the one thesaurus every writer (or aspiring writer) will want to have. It provides more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms, with copious real-life example sentences and careful selection and ordering of the most relevant synonyms. Additional features include notes on American English usage and word spectrums showing the shades of meaning between polar opposites. The text is enhanced with thoughtful mini-essays on favorite words by ten noted contemporary writers--David Auburn, Michael Dirda, David Lehman, Erin McKean, Stephin Merritt, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Jean Strouse, David Foster Wallace, and Simon Winchester.
This new edition has been updated and enhanced, including a new foreword by award-winning author Rick Moody. Additionally, the second edition introduces new Word Toolkits, which use an exciting visual display of information to demonstrate the nuances in meaning and use of closely related words. Also new to this edition is a center section including thematic word lists, as well as a comprehensive language guide with writing tips. The new features are based on findings from Oxford's groundbreaking language research program and the Oxford English Corpus.
The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is truly (surely, certainly, unquestionably) the perfect tool for discriminating writers of all varieties looking for the perfect word.

Two words: My Hero!

(Hero: brave person, lionheart, warrior, knight, champion, victor, conqueror, superstar, megastar, idol...)

This thesaurus includes the occasional word bank (not as many as Word Menu, but that's not its primary feature). My favourite EXTRA in this text is the WORD SPECTRUM feature--chains of near-synonyms intended to show shades of meaning. LOVE IT!

This is a wonderful reference source--i find myself reaching for it again and again--even though i have an online thesaurus. Highly recommended

This is perhaps the best printed thesaurus currently, but the Visual Thesaurus is more fun and on line at www.visualthesaurus.com.

I love how this thesaurus singles writers out in the title and then tries to include everyone by adding "for the writer in everyone" on the cover. /sarcasm

Is rather a fantastic thesaurus though.