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." |