URLs of Note

Home Up Syllabus URLs of Note

 

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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