Internet Resources for Writing
Using Search Engines
One way to research is to type a keyword or phrase into a search
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of methods for searching texts. The same keyword search produces
differing results in various search engines. Try a variety
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engines.
Writing
an Academic Paper
The Purdue OWL's Research
Writing Workshop, a hypertext tutorial
The University of Toronto's Advice
on Academic Writing covers all areas of composing and
editing.
Princeton
University's Writing Center Handouts
Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant, "is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's
guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the
WWW...[and] is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced
to advanced."
Documenting and Quoting
MLA
Format from the Purdue OWL + APA link
All fields, according to Hacker's
Writer's Reference
Chicago Manual
of Style
APA's "How to Cite
Information From the Internet and the World Wide Web
Citing
EBSCOhost Articles, InfoTrac Articles, and other databases,
from Northwest Missouri State University's library pages
Indiana
University's Writing Resources with Plagiarism: What it is and how
to avoid it
How Not to
Plagiarize from the University of Toronto
Style, Sentence Logic, and Grammar
Gary Olson's Punctuation
Made Simple
Purdue OWL, especially
over 130 Instructional
Handouts + English
as a Second Language (ESL)
Guide to Grammar
and Writing from Capital Community-Technical College,
Jack Lynch's
Grammar and Style Notes
NASA's
technical writing manual advice on punctuation
Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, on-line
version
Words
+ Dictionary
WWWebster Dictionary, a hypertext
dictionary with thesaurus
The Plumb Design
Visual Thesaurus - "an exploration of sense relationships
within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a
thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations."
Finding
Current Issues
- For news and current research, New
York Times and CyberTimes.
It's free, but you'll be asked to register with a user name and
a password. The current New York Times Book Review and Magazine
section remain available for one week, with first chapters (full
text) of some reviewed books online.
- The Atlantic Monthly
- debates on current issues, plus the interactive Atlantic Unbound
with author commentary/interviews, and, especially, connections
to related Atlantic Monthly articles through the years.
- CNN Interactive reports (daily)
and analyzes news and current world events
- Scientific American
- The science journal, Nature
- reports cutting-edge scientific and medical research.
- Science Magazine
- National
Geographic - articles include an open Reader Forum
- The Boston Globe or The
Worcester Telegram sites provide local news and events from
the current issue only, plus useful links to local colleges and
museums. There is a fee for searching back issues.
- National Public Radio
- Time's Pathfinder
- PBS
For Libraries of Information...
- The Library of Congress
- CIA
Publications and Handbooks - especially 2000
CIA World Factbook
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics 1970's to present
- FedStats.com for
demographics
- The New York Times ' selective guide to the web:
CyberTimes Navigator.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities
Research, a central humanities resource
- From UPenn, Books
On-Line
- Literary
Resources on the Net by Jack Lynch
- The
Shakespeare Page
- The History
of English
- From the Library of Congress, American
Memory
- The English
Server at Carnegie Mellon, a humanities resource
- Columbia University's
Bartleby American & British poetry, Strunk &
White
- EdSITEment's
Literature and Language website list
- The Chaucer
Review
- Special Collections
at Duke University, especially Third
Person, First Person, slave voices
- The Perseus Project
Greek/Roman mythology
- Modern
Poets
- Great
Writers and Poets
- FastFacts
from My Virtual
Reference Desk
- Worcester
Women's History Project
- NASA's site, pictures and information about solar exploration,
updated daily:
Galileo
Project.
- Project Gutenberg
online texts - "Everyone in the world, or even not in this
world (given satellite transmission) can have a copy of
a book that has been entered into a computer."
- Georgetown University's The
Electronic Crossroads American Studies, + Labyrinth
medieval texts.
- From John Lye's Course and Source Page, Brock University,
CA, Critical
Reading: A Guide, On
the problem of meaning in literature, Ideology:
A Brief Guide On
the Uses of Studying Literature
- David Lam Centre for
International Communication
- The Deaf Resource
Library
- A New York Times magazine article about the
way deaf children in Nicaragua are creating a new, fluent
language: A
Linguistic Big Bang
- The results of The New York Times year-long
investigative journalism series, "How
Race is Lived in America"+ The NYTimes' selective
guide to race-related sites.
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