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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Critical Reading: A Guide - "This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction."
Common Errors in English - Really interesting
Outstanding Books List - From The American Library Association
Study Guides - From Bibliomania
eNotes - Over 1,000 titles to help you
MLA Formatting & Style Guide - from The Owl At Purdue
MLA Citation examples - from Tidewater Community College (PDF format)
MLA Citation - From Honolulu Community College
EasyBib: The free advanced MLA bibliography composer
NoodleBib Express - This is a free version of Noodle Tools citation generator. You must create an account (free).
Avoiding Plagiarism - "Plagiarism occurs when one steals or uses the ideas or writings of another and presents these writings or ideas as his or her own."
Annotated Bibliography Guidelines - MLA Format
1. excellent site from Tidewater Community College - includes a huge number of writing and research guides
Basic Steps in the Research Process - This is a great guide with examples of every element that you might need to use in your paper.
Recommended Book: Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning. "The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid out in
easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and usage are very
user-friendly, and lots of extras (suffixes, parliamentary procedure, periodic
table, metric system, the U.S. Constitution, world maps, etc.) make this extraordinarily popular and useful."
OWL - Purdue's Online Writing Lab - A terrific site.
Online Writing Help - from Ferris State University
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The Biography Maker - .This site willl take you through the process of writing a really good biography in a fun way. |
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Basic Guide to Writing an Essay
The Elements of Style - Concentrates on the rules of usage and principles of writing most misused.
The American Heritage Book of English Usage - "...detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms"
The Nuts and Bolts of the Big6 - A big help in following the Big6 steps to writing projects.
Online Graphic Organizers - Graphic organizers are 1 page forms, in different styles, with blank areas for the student to fill in related ideas on a subject. These are great tools when planning an essay or research project. These require that you Adobe Reader installed. This is a free download.
Writing an Arguementative Essay
Guide to Basic Business Letters - Helps with format and choosing your words to get across your purpose.
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Super Vocab Builder - A big help when studying for standardized tests.
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
Word Play: "Sites That Feature Fun with Words"
Bartlett's Quotations - The best place to find quotations
Shakespeare Quotes: 100 Bardisms by catagory
The Libyrinth - "Spotlights select 20th century authors."
LitLink - Links to information on authors by their genre
IPL's Authors : A very comprehensive site for authors around the world.
C-Span American Writers: Journey through history - a great site with links to web pages fro more information. See also - American Writers II: The Twentieth Century
Yahoo Liturature Directory: The Beat Generation - Lots and lots of links to every aspect of the Beat Generation.
Jack London - "A searchable and browsable collection of full-text writings, correspondence, postcards, telegrams, manuscripts, official documents, and photographs relating to the California author. Includes a brief biography, bibliographies, and research aids. From the University of California, Berkeley."
Authors on the Web: A Collection of Biographical Sketches
African-American Writers: A Celebration - Many very good links from Middle Tennessee State University
Native North American Authors - Information, bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources
Ken Kesey & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Shakespeare Bookshelf - Online texts of all the works.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Extensive site for information on the author and 27 of his plays
Elizabethan Costuming Page - "Pictures, patterns, and explanations of Elizabethan garments"
Shakespeare Resource Center - The man, the times, The Globe, and more
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
William Shakespeare: On-line Literary Criticism Collection
Shakespeare and His Critics - Writings on Ophelia, Hamlet, Shylock, Female Characters, Shakespearean theses
Glossary of Literary Criticism - Learn the terms used in critical essays
Online Literary Criticism Guide - a great place to start finding online critical writing
IPL Literary Criticism - Search by author, title, or time period
NewPages - links to a wide variety of reviews, both mainstream sources as well as works published by smaller, independent and/or alternative publishers.
A Celebration of Women Writers - Search by author, title, or time period
Literary Criticism: An Overview of Approaches - Learn the what's and why's of literary criticism
see also: Shakespeare
Cambridge History of English and American History Literature - "Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published." This is an amazing site. It is an 18 volume online encyclopedia!
American Literature Links - "A Compilation of Web Sites and Other Connections"
Literary Resources on the Net - A really excellent site for links to American and English literary resources.
Project Gutenberg - "...the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet." They provide texts to over 15,000 works. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works.
Simon's History of American Literature
Literary Movements and Periods - A great resource
Links to Literature - An index of over 1,000 authors.
Open Directory of World Literature
Luminarium - "This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. This is a wonderful "must see" site.
LitLinks - After reading a great story, poem, play, essay, or critical article, you may want to know more. This site lets you select the genre and author and provides annotated links to more information.
Voice of the Shuttle - A huge site for literature through the ages.
Literary Resources on the Net - by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University - A great number of links beginning with classical and Biblical through 20th century.
Open Directory World Literature Online
Literary Resources on the Net - "This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature..."
The International Children's Digital Library - A digital library of international children's books
Based on the Book - 'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 1,000 book titles, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority on release dates, all movies in this collection have been released since 1980.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A very comprehensive site on the author, the work, criticism and themes.
To Kill a Mockingbird Online Resource Center - from the Chicago Public Library
Literary Resources: Feminism and Women's Literature
Corvey's Women's Writers on the Web - a database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them.
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Women Writers (Kim Wells) - "Commentary on women writers from 1800 to the present, with annotated links to other sites."
List of Feminist Literature - from Answers.com
List of Feminist Literature - from Wikipedia (an online free content encyclopedia)
Literature and the Environment
Wilderness and the American Imagination - from Yale University
Rachel Carson - Biologist, Writer, and Ecologist
Barbara Kingsolver - Her first non-fiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
American Environmental Literature - an article from Environment Magazine
African-American Women's Literature - A very good resource with links to authors' pages, literature, and much more.
"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
-William Burroughs
Beat generation Author Directory - by Yahoo.com - a great resource
The Beat Page - Short biographies of the main writers, book lists, themes, and lots of links to related sites.
The Beat Generation and the Sixties: a guide to Web resources
The Wikopedia Beat Generation page - background, links, historical context, women writers and much more
American Museum of Beat Art - The art culture of the time as well as author links
A Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Jack Kerouac - "The official website"
Kerouac's Roads - about the book and the man
The Vonnegut Web - includes biographical information, his works, and literary critcism. This is a really comprehensive site.
Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five - from the Indiana Historical Society
Allen Ginsberg - at allenginsberg.com
The Beat Generation Resource Page - extensive links to news, the people, and more
Blues For Peace - A good overview of the Beat Generations or "Bohemians"
Poet's Corner Biographies - A wonderful site with information on a great number of poets and their works
British Women Romantic Poets, 1739-1832
Bartleby.com - "...one of the largest collections of free verse on the web."
International Library of Poetry - This is a site to display and encourage the writing of poetry.
Teen Ink: Poetry Written By Teens - From Teen Ink Magazine
Teen Poems - "These poems are by teens, about teens, and about life as they see it."
Poetry 180 - A poem a day for high school students
The Academy of American Poets - At this site you can hear and read poetry. Hundreds of poems, poet bios, and recordings.
Guide to Drama - A great reference for the study and history of drama
Theatre History on the Web - "A Resource for theatre historians and students of the theatre's history."
Drama - Library Reference Guide to Drama (as literature) links
Mythology, Folklore, and Fables
Gods and Goddesses - a very complete directory
God Checker: Your Guide to the Gods
Ancient History from About.com - Search for ancient gods and goddesses in two ways, by culture or alphabetically, by the name of the specific god or goddess.
Encyclopedia Mythica: Greek Mythology
Mythweb - a very colorful that is fun to navigate
Mythology Guide - collected information on Greek and Roman myths
Greek Mythology: The Immortals
The Trojan War - from Wikipedia (an online free content encyclopedia)
Introduction to Virgil, The Aeneid - by John Cox
Mythography: Greek lovers in myth and art
Monoyth - from U.C. Berkeley
MonoMyth: Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey
Brewer's Phrase and Fable Dictionary
Grimm's Fairy Tales - "All 209 tales, partly based on the translation by Margaret Hunt."
On-line Texts - There are so many online versions of literary works.
Bibliomania - "...thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays "
On-line Books Page - From University of Pennsylvania
American Library Association Booklist
English as a Second Language - "...a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web."
Dave's ESL Cafe - A great site for both teachers and students
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ESL Resources - This is an excellent site for all students of the English Language. Very comprehensive.
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students
YLC English as a Second Language - From the University of Oregon
ESL Idiom Page - by Dennis Oliver
1,000 Most Common English Words - Great for building an essential vocabulary.
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