English/Literature
Guides & Handouts
Comma Handout Developing Strong Thesis Statements Independent/Dependent Clause Handout Integrating Sources Into Your Research Paper - This PDF provides an explanation of how to integrate source texts into your research paper. Rhetorical Analysis Toolkit Templates for Responding to Arguments - Click here to find a list of signal phrases that you may use to respond to an argument posed by a critic or scholar. Transition Chart Resources for Citation & Grammar
Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation - The pubishers of this book allow free access to explanations of many tricky English rules and terms. Citation Machine - A website that allows you to input the information for a book and its author and receive formatted citations in MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago formats. EasyBib - A website that allows you to input the information for a book and its author and receive formatted citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago formats. Grammerly - Grammarly automatically detects grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing. It’s easy to use with a free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox. Guide to Grammar and Writing - This link offers drop down menus for specific levels that students might need grammatical assistance. It offers topics on word and sentence levels, quizzes, sentence parts and functions, essay and research paper assistance and how to form good paragraphs. Harvard Writing Center Lumen Verb Tenses & Agreement Merriam Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus - Quick and easy access to a well-recognized language resource. Definitions, synonyms, pronunciation, word history, Vocabulary building games and more. OER Commons Academic Writing Exercises PaperRater Paper Grader Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - This site should be a student's best friend. POWA offers tips and assistance of paper writing. Offering numerous links to helpful website with tips for beginning a paper to editing to supporting and ending. Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - This site offers over 200 free resources to assist in paper writing. ALA and MLA and style guides beginning with 7th grade and continuing with professional writers. Reality and Solution of College Plagiarism Infographic - Infographic created by University of Illinois at Chicago showing why students plagiarize and how to prevent plagiarism. RefME - The free tool to create citations, reference lists and bibliographies in any format. Generate citations in seconds using your phone’s camera. All your projects and citations are synced across your devices. RefME WebClipper is the fastest way to cite web pages, articles, videos and books online. The Chrome extension lets you add notes and save your citations whilst you browse the web. Writing Guides @ CSU - These guides are the result of a joint effort of the Writing@CSU project and the Colorado State University Writing Center. Writing Center - University of North Carolina's online writing lab page provides articles, links, videos, and other tools to assist students with writing a paper, formatting citations, understanding specific writing assignments and writing for specific fields. |
E-books
EBSCO e-books on Literature & Criticism Directory of Open Access Books - Free access to academic, peer reviewed books from over 600 publishers across a whole range of disciplines. HathiTrust Digital Library - The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations. Internet Archive e-books - The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. Open Library e-books - Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Project Gutenberg e-books - Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free e-books: choose among free e-pub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. Streaming Media
Films on Demand- Elements of Language Films on Demand- American Literature Films on Demand- British Literature Films on Demand- World Literature Resources for Research Papers
EBSCOHost Databases Points of View Reference Center Issues and Controversies SIRS Researcher ProCon.org Resources for Literary Analysis
Course Hero Lit. - Discover in-depth literary analysis via study guides, infographics, and essays for all your favorite books. Encyclopedia Britannica Online - An online version of the highly respected encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Mythica - An online encyclopedia dedicated to mythology, folklore, and religion in six major geographical regions. Humanities International Complete Humanities Source Labyrinth - Resources for medieval literature studies. Literary Criticism Online - This site offers literary criticisms of work from the 19th and 20th Centuries. There is also introductions of the authors of the works as well as criticisms of the authors. Literary Reference Center - database contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies, more than 460 literary journals, nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 6,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. Literary Devices – A website which lists and defines common terms used when analyzing literature. LiteraryHistory.com - Academic, scholarly, and critical articles on British and American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Luminarium - Medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth-century English literature. Shakespeare Resource Center - Dedicated to providing information on William Shakespeare and his writing. Victorian Web - Outstanding site that covers every significant aspect of Victorian life. |