Composition/English
Two places to start for
writing suggestions online
Writing
Commons
Perdue's
OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Voice of
the Shuttle
An online bibliography of English links
Sources and
Plagiarism
MLA citation instructions
How to avoid Plagiarism
Evaluating Web
Sources
Virginia Tech
Has a "how can I tell?" further step that many other
guides leave out.
Southern
Maine has a nice one that is clean and simple
Check this one from UNC
U of Berkley hosts the standard
site, but the ones above might be more user friendly
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Dictionaries, etc.
WWWebster
Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster’s 10th edition dictionary online.
Links
to Online Dictionaries
400 Dictionaries in over 130 languages
Internet/Computers
Computer Tips
No, you won't get money, but you may get advice
Politics
Search and
write to your US Representative
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and write to your US Senator
Project
Vote Smart
Voter information – often on candidates that don’t make
the mainstream news media
Fun
This
American Life
Listen to archived shows of one of the most intriguing and
interesting programs to come along in years.
From
an article in The
Nation
on the show "It takes as its beat, well, life. For
instance, it did a
show recently on The Kindness of Strangers: Four
segments, each about
fifteen minutes long, each set in New York. One was
about a locksmith
rescuing a stranded motorist; one about a white
teenager who ran away
from home to move in with a black actor/father figure
in fifties
Harlem; one about a crazy lady who tormented the
people in the
apartment next door, posting notices accusing them of
being drug
dealers; and one about a guy who entertained his block
once a week with
Sinatra songs. "There is something about the judgment
of strangers --
when the clerk at the record store seems unimpressed
by your choice of
CDs," said host Ira Glass as the show began. "It's as
if by their
status as strangers they have some special
instantaneous insight into
who we are." Which is true: It gets you thinking. But
that was about it
for the summing up, the philosophizing."
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