Writing and Research Links

 

Should you have any questions regarding your writing or a particular assignment, we recommend that you first meet with your instructor or visit our Writing Center; what follows, however, are a number of Web sites that may be of interest to students of writing and literature.

 

The Research Paper

 Palomar College's Academic Technology page, created by Terry Grey, contains a wealth of useful resources for the online researcher, including links to libraries, online encyclopedias, general and specialized dictionaries, and writers' guides (handbooks and citation information).

Capital Community-Technical College of Hartford, Connecticut, has produced a Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA documentation.

 

Writing and Grammar

If you know exactly what you are after, Purdue University Writing Lab's Online Writing Center (OWL) has an index of writing-related material. Similarly, the University of Victoria's Writers' Guide has a thorough index of answers to writing and grammar questions as well as explanations of literary terms. 

If you are not sure of where to get started, try LEO, the home page for The Write Place, St. Cloud State University's Writing Center.

                 

 Ideas about How to Get Your Papers Started
 Purdue University Online Writing Lab's  Starting to Write

 

Ideas about What Type of Essay to Write
The UVic Writer's Guide's Methods Of Organizing Your Essay 

         

Other Useful Sites for Writers
Capital Community-Technical College Guide to Grammar and Writing 

 

 ESL Sites (Native English Speakers Also Will Find Much of Interest Here) 
Colleen Weldele, of Palomar College's ESL department, has created an Online Writing Lab, an extensive Web site that provides practice sheets and quizzes, links to other grammar and writing resources, and online tutorial sessions staffed by Palomar faculty members.

 

Dave Sperling's  ESL Cafe

The Internet TESL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students 

 

Reference Materials
 Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

 

Online Texts (e-texts)

The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies:  The Internet Classics Archive. 
Project Gutenberg's E-text Listings  (perhaps the most extensive collection of e-texts).
Columbia University's Project Bartleby Archive 
On-line Collection of Aesop's Fables.
The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia has a site called the Multicultural Pavilion where you can find an index of many historical documents under various subject headings.

 

Words
 Random House maintains a site entitled The Maven's Word of the Day.

 

Words and Phrases
 Evan Morris's syndicated column on word and phrase origins.

 

Writing on Walls
 An organization called Art Crimes has established a gallery of the work of graffiti writers from cities around the world with more than two thousand images online.

 

Critical Thinking
 San Jose State University produces a tutorial on critical thinking and the use of deductive reasoning entitled Mission: Critical.

       

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