Library Course Pages by
Campus
Reference
Desk
- Dictionary.com - Collection
of a dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations, & dictionaries in other languages
- Oxford English Dictionary -- Finally, this master of all
dictionaries is online!
- OED News -- Updates
to the OED that aren't yet in the OED
- AskOxford.com -- A wealth of
information about words and language (their subtitle is "Passionate about
language," which should tell us something)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary --
Simple online dictionary
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations -- Passages, phrases, and proverbs
traced to their sources
- Newspapers -- Index of newspapers
from around the world
- Dr. Grammar's Frequently Asked Questions
-- A helpful collection of commonly confused points of grammar, such as lie
vs. lay, among vs. between, i before e except after c, why "I" is capitalized,
and many other points of trivia for the grammatically curious
Citing Resources
Purdue's
OWL's MLA Citation
Guide -- How to cite any source using MLA documentation style
Diana Hacker's Resource for Citing with MLA Documentation -- Diana Hacker's
easy-to-use, comprehensive resource for how to cite everything MLA-style and
correctly. The above link shows how to do in-text citations; go
here to see how
to make your list of Works Cited.
UW Madison's Writing
Center on MLA Documentation -- Intuitively arranged and with good
examples, this site is quite helpful.
UW
Washington County's Library Guide for Citing Electronic Resources -- MLA and APA formats for citing resources
from library subscription databases
NoodleTools --
The UWC libraries subscribe to this service that helps build citations. Go
to the “UW
Colleges Electronic Resources and Online Databases,” click on the letter
“N,” and scroll down to NoodleTools.
Plagiarism Resources
UW Colleges' Policy on Plagiarism -- Chapter UWS 14: Student Academic
Disciplinary Procedures
Paraphrasing & Not Plagiarizing -- Purdue's resource is a concise, valuable
review of how to appropriately and correctly paraphrase others' words and ideas
by putting them in your own words, rather than plagiarizing. The "Some examples
to compare" is particularly useful.
The Copyright Website -- This site offers information on
internet copyright, infringement, registration, and fair use
Plagiarism:
Curricular Materials for History Instructors -- The American Historical
Association's "survey of pedagogical strategies designed to offer wise
counsel to teachers seeking to help students understand and avoid plagiarism,"
strategies that are relevant to our courses as well.
Online Guides,
Handouts, and Syllabi
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American Library Association Digital Copyright Slider -- ALA's digital
copyright guide
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UIUC Writers'
Workshop -- University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign collection of
writing handouts on grammar & writing techniques
- NCTE Home Page -- National Council of Teachers of
English page includes teaching ideas and information on NCTE activities and
publications
- World Lecture Hall -- Collection of syllabi, assignments,
lecture notes, exams, etc
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Purdue University's On-Line Writing
Lab --
OWL's monstrous collection of handouts on grammar, spelling, style, ESL,
business and professional writing, citations, etc.
- Dave's ESL Cafe -- Online worksheets and quizzes, links
for students and teachers, ESL Job Center
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Literary Research,
Theory, and Context
- MLA International Bibliography
Online -- Comprehensive bibliography of language and literary
studies (If this link doesn't work for you, check with your library's databases
because all UW Colleges' libraries subscribe.)
- LitFinder -- LitFinder is international
in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature
content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations
and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800
full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies,
work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides
over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users
to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality,
gender, timeline, and more.
- Library of Congress -- Massive database for research
- Literary Resources On
the Net -- Jack Lynch's easy-to-use collection
of literary links; a good place to start if you're looking for an author
not listed below
- Internet Movie Database --
For those incorporating film into literature classes, here is a vast database
with general info, reviews, plot summaries, and trivia on movies, actors,
directors, anything about movies
- LION (Literature Online) -- Chadwyck-Healey's
literary databases include English Poetry Full-text Database, Database
of African American Poetry 1760-1900, Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary,
et al
- Womanist Theory and Research --
Archive of The Womanist, as well as links to multicultural, womanist/feminist,
women of color, African American sites
- Columbia University's Bartleby
Library -- Writings excavated from the Dead Letter Office, such
as Frost, Melville, Keats, J.S.Mill, A.E.Housman, G.M.Hopkins, Paine,
Sandburg, Shelley, Stein, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Yeats, Eliot,
DuBois, et al
- Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia's E-Text
Center archives English Language Resources, Modern English, Middle English,
Old English, English Poetry, English Verse Drama, African American Poetry,
Old Newspapers, Shakespeare, et al
Specific Authors
or Subjects
- Columbus -- This site about the doors of the
U.S. Capital Rotunda explores the stories, symbols, and mythologies of Christopher
Columbus
- Shakespeare's Globe Center -- Diagrams and history of the
Globe Theatre, links to other Globe/Shakespeare sites
- Renaissance Forum -- Electronic journal of historical
and literary Renaissance studies
- Early America Review -- Collection of 18th century
historical documents, maps, and texts
- Society of Early Americanists -- Browse their texts or scanned
images of early historical documents
- Electronic Archive of Early American
Fiction -- Manuscripts, typescripts,
and images of early American and 19th Century African American historical
documents and literary resources
- Jane Austen -- UGA's own Austen crew put
together this hypertext collection of some of Austen's works, as well as
links to other Austen, 18th century, and Romanticism resources
- James Joyce -- Finnegan's Wake,
Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
- William
Faulkner -- Glossary and character biographies,
genealogical charts, recommended critical works, bibliographies
- Walker Percy -- Works by and info on Walker
Percy
- CELT -- Contemporary and historical
documents from Ireland, rendered e-text by University College of Cork
- Inaugural Poet -- PBS put together a page on
Clinton's Inaugural Poet Miller Williams, another poet from Arkansas
- Bonfire of the Liberties -- An Interactive Exhibit on
Censorship of the Humanities with plenty of specific cases (Milton, Faulkner,
Voltaire, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, et al)
- WWW Virtual Library:
Theatre and Drama -- Great searching tool for drama info
- The Global Campus: Liberal
Arts -- Resources in Literature (Walt Whitman's Leaves of
Grass), African American Studies, American Indian Studies (links to
individual tribal pages), Classics, Language, etc
- Poetry On the Web--
Largest list of individual poetry by famous (and not-so-famous)
poets, such as Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Milton, Rita Dove, Dorothy Parker,
et al
E-Zines
The list below is a work-in-progress of links
with brief notes that I give to students who may be interested in browsing
online literary journals to read contemporary poems, stories, non-fiction,
and reviews. Readers can also gain insight into the processes of literary
publishing by browsing submission guidelines, contributor's bios, editor's
notes, mission statements. There are so many sites, it's hard to know what
to include -- I'd be happy to get ideas for more links or see others add
lists of their own, especially with more print-based journals. Some of the
sites below have extensive "links" pages of their own where we can find many
more literary journals and resources. -- Joel Friederich, UW Barron County
THE FIRST
TWO ARE WEBSITES FOR WELL-KNOWN PRINT-BASED LITERARY JOURNALS:
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Ploughshares -- a highly respected
literary journal published at Emerson College in Boston. Ploughshares is a
print journal, not a web-based e-zine. Their website offers a large
selection of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from the current edition as
well as from archived editions, and an editor’s introduction to each issue
that can give insight into literary / aesthetic values and vision.
Ploughshares chooses a well-known poetry or fiction writer as guest editor
for each issue, to bring an individual perspective to each new edition.
From the home page, click the cover of the current edition to get to a table
of contents, and then click on any title in blue to read samples.
http://www.pshares.org/index.cfm
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THE REST ARE WHOLLY ONLINE, WITH ALL CONTENT
AVAILABLE FOR BROWSING:
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Blackbird is a literary e-zine from
Virginia Commonwealth University, filled with both emerging and
well-established writers. Click the bird on the opening page to enter.
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/
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Drunken Boat: A literary e-zine on the
experimental side, with interesting multi-media art as well as poetry and a
variety of prose.
http://www.drunkenboat.
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2RiverView: A great quarterly e-zine out
of St. Louis, featuring 10 poets each season and one artist.
http://www.2river.org/
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Three Candles: A literary e-zine from the
Twin Cities featuring poetry, short stories, book reviews, links and
resources for writers. Three Candles also has a press (at the same site)
publishing poetry collections.
http://www.threecandles.org/
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42nd Opus: Fiction, poetry, and
non-fiction. Some “non-contemporary” authors (Emily Dickinson...) are
brought together with new writing. New works are posted every few days.
http://www.42opus.com/
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Small Spiral Notebook - an online
literary magazine, with a wide-range of offerings: poetry, fiction,
reviews, non-fiction, author interviews, art, an editor’s blog.
http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/
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Six Bricks - A very interesting e-zine
dedicated to publishing “six little things” in each edition. The site
leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the six pieces in each edition
are poems, very short stories, prose poems, tiny essays--they are just six
little things by six authors. Also features a photo
http://www.sixbrickspress.com/
