IMPORTANT: BE SURE TO EXPLORE THE FOLLOWING USEFUL
WEBSITES: (Note: some of the sites listed below need to be updated by our class)
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/englatin.htm
Latin Influences on English
http://www.rit.edu/~932www/style_guide/punctuation.html
Punctuation Guide
http://www.smart.net/~wisdom/mary/grammar.html
Notes on American Grammar
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html
Rules of English Usage
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
Apostrophe Protection Society
http://www.researchpaper.com
Useful advice for writing researched papers,
including organization, style, format, source citations
http://www.canexus.com/eve/index3.shtml
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/reviews/marsh/plagintro.html
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
http://dodger.ehhs.cmich.edu/~mspears/plagiarism.html
http://www.plagiarized.com/index.shtml
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/computing.html
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/electres/readyref/rrstyle.htm
http://www.mla.org/style/style_top_index.htm
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/engl/elinks.html
http://www.lib.mnsu.edu/lib/dbases.html#arts
Databases in Arts and Humanities at MSU Library
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
References for Writers: excellent
information about MLA style, including information on electronic citations, based on
Janice Walker's MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
http://www.google.com
Google: one of the best search engines
http://www.vivisimo.com
Vivisimo: a new excellent search engine
http://www.shelton.wednet.edu/shs/ClassPages/english/diagramming_site/diagramming_home.htm
Tutorial on sentence diagramming
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams/diagrams.stm
Diagramming sentences
http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/basicdiagrams.htm
The Basics of Sentence Diagramming
NOTE: Websites on selected authors are
listed below.
**Author: Alice Walker
http://wwwvms.utexas/edu/~melindaj/alice.html
Biography of Alice Walker and information about her achievements
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/
Detailed biography, excerpts from Walker's books, opportunities to purchase
texts
http://www.engl.cla.umn.lkd/vfg/Authors/AliceWalker
Samples of Walker's Writing with emphasis on The Color Purple
http://bcsd.org/BHS/english/mag97/papers.walker.htm
Jennie Barrett's paper, "The Search for Identity in the Works of Alice
Walker"
http://www2.uic.edu:80/~bschot1/use.html
Bruce Shotland's essay on "Everyday Use"
http://www.sistahspace.com/sistory/writers/walker/links.html
"SistahSpace"
http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/AWARE/archives/walker.html
http://www.salon1999.com/09/departments/litchat1.html
Salon Chat with Alice Walker
http://www.black-collegian.com/oct97/walker.html
Black Collegian Interview
http://www.acessatlanta.com/global/local/yall/culture/quill/walker/walker2.html
Interview with Alice Walker
**Author: Guy de Maupassant
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/maupassa.htm
Outline of the author's life
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~lsimms/Guy.html
Time for Maupassant's life
http://www.press.umich.edu/titles/10544.htm
Chas. Stival's' site on Maupassant
**Author: Willa Cather
http://www.kutztown.edu/~reagan/cather.html
Willa Cather
http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/pubs.html
Willa Cather Home Page
http://willacather.org
Welcome to Catherland Online
http://www.su.edu/WILLASEM/
7th Annual Cather Seminar at Shenandoah University
http://lonestar.texas.net/~kwells/cather1.htm
Willa Cather: Domestic Goddess
http://www.greatamericanwomen.com/cather.htm
Willa Cather
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cather.htm
Links to Project Gutenberg and L.O.C.
**Author: Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/ARCV/kporter.html
Porter Collection, U. of Maryland
http://educeth.ethz/english/readinglist/porter.katherine.html
K. A. Porter information
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/porterka.htm
Porter's works and links
**Author: Ernest Hemingway
http://www.atlantic.net/~gagne/hem/hemlinks.html
Atlantic Hemingway site
http://fiction.miningco.com/msub7.htm
Biographical information on Hemingway
http://members.aol.com/MWilson311/Hemingway/biography.htm
Biographical information
http://home.earthlink.net/~jswolf/hem_library.html
Some of Hemingway's stories online
**Author: Raymond Carver
http://world.std.com/~ptc/
Listing of Works by and about Carver
http://people.whitman.edu/~lucetb/carver/
Detailed biography and photographs
**Author: Amy Tan
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AmyTan.html
Voices from the Gap: Amy Tan
http://www.dqydj.com/tan.htm
"Don't Quit Your Day Job" record artists: Amy Tan
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~mosaic/fall94/page15.html
"Mosaic" interview with Amy Tan
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/
Annina's Amy Tan Page
http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/academics/faculty/
manterfield/Joy%20Luck%205/joy_luck_club_teachers_gui.htm
Teacher's Guide for The Joy Luck Club
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