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Course Documents Links
Secondary Sources

Quick Links
Library Links
Citing Sources

American Lit II Home Page

Dr. Bordelon's American Lit II On Campus

These shift as new sites are found. If you find helpful sites, please send them my way (dbordelon@ocean.edu)

Radio Links

Modernism
A Brief Guide to Modernism
From poets.org -- with an emphasis on poets, naturally


Online Books/Reading
Gutenberg Project 
Tons o' online books, including odd-balls like McGuffey's Readers from the 19th century

Making of America
This is a full text and searchable archive of assorted and sundry 19th primary sources.  Everything from volumes of Appleton's Monthly Magazine to travel books can be found.  A must see for Americanists

Arts and Literature Daily
For us Humanities types. Great quick reads on a variety of topics

Google Books
Quite literally, libraries on your desktop. Particularly rich in 19th century sources.

Voice of the Shuttle
A kind of online bibliography of english links

 

Composition/English
The Collaborator
A site where you can post work for feedback

One Stop Shopping
Brought to you by Purdue Online Writing Lab.
An index of handouts on all aspects of writing

Crafting a Thesis (Steve Moiles)
Need more help with thesis statements? Try this site.

Logic in Argumentative Essays
Word lists and descriptions of how to make your points clear.

Voice of the Shuttle
An online bibliography of English links

Grammar, etc
General Grammar Guide
From Purdue University

Sources and Plagiarism
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University.
An instructional handout.

Paraphrasing Exercise. Purdue Online Writing Lab. Purdue University.

Plagiarism
Purdue's done it (again)

Statistics
Wonder what a mean is?  What about a median? Click to find out -- and how to use them effectively in your writing.

Dictionaries, etc.
WWWebster Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster’s 10th edition dictionary online.

Links to Online Dictionaries
400 Dictionaries in over 130 languages

Internet/Computers
A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
How to evaluate web sources

Using Search Engines.
An excellent summary of different kinds of Web search options, complete with links to different search engines

Computer Tips
No, you won't get money, but you may get advice

Politics
Search and write to your US Representative

Search 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."