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The World Wide Web leads to a huge array of writing re-sources, both popular and scholarly.
The sampling here covers the following topics:

The process of writing (below)

Writing with a computer (below)

Clarity and style (below)

Sentence parts and patterns (opposite)

English as a second language (opposite)

Punctuation (opposite)

Document design (p. 202)

Job applications and business writing (p. 202)

Spelling and mechanics (p. 202)

Research writing (p. 202)

Online sources in the disciplines (p. 204)

Note Web sites frequently move or disappear. For the most current links, see this book’s own Web site at http://www.ablongman.com/littlebrown.

The process of writing

Guide to Grammar and Writing, Capital Community College. Advice on writing at every level, from the writing process through grammar.

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant. Advice for writing a variety of college papers, with samples and activities.

http://www.powa.org

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Searchable collection of over 130 handouts on writing, including planning, organizing, revising, editing, and proofreading.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/index.html

Writing with a computer

Gettingstarted.net. An introduction to Web development and design.

http://www.gettingstarted.net

Impulse Research Group. Information and resources on discussion lists.

http://www.webcom.com/impulse/list.html

Learn the Net. Internet basics.

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/65mailet.htm

Clarity and style

The Elements of Style. William Strunk and E. B. White’s clas-sic reference on style.

http://www.bartleby.com/strunk

Guide to Grammar and Writing, Capital Community College. Advice on parallelism, variety, and unbiased language.

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Help with emphasis, conciseness, variety, unbiased language, and exact words.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html#effective

Sentence parts and patterns

Five sites offering especially strong help with grammar:

Guide to Grammar and Writing, Capital Community College

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

HyperGrammar, University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar

Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

Writers’ Guide, University of Victoria

http://web.uvic.ca/wguide

Writers’ Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/

English as a second language

Internet TESL Journal. Quizzes on grammar and vocabulary plus crossword puzzles.

http://a4esl.org

Learn English. Advice on grammar plus quizzes, songs, stories, poems, and games.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar_home_frame.html

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Numerous handouts, exercises, and links to other ESL resources.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html

Punctuation

Four sites offering especially strong help with punctuation:

Guide to Grammar and Writing, Capital Community College

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

HyperGrammar, University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar

Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html#punctuation

Writer’s Complex, Empire State College

http://www.esc.edu/writer

Document design

desktopPublishing.com.Links to information, images, and templates for document design.

http://desktopPublishing.com

Internet Design and Publishing Center. General design resources, including news and Web design tips.

http://www.graphic-design.com

Job applications and business writing

Business and Technical Communication, Ohio State Univer-sity. Links to journals, discussion lists, and sites on business and professional writing.

http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/bus-econ/current

JobWeb. Tips on résumés, cover letters, interviews, and follow-up letters with samples.

http://www.jobweb.com/Resumes_Interviews/default.htm

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Advice on business letters.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/index.html

Spelling and mechanics

Alan Cooper’s Homonyms. A guide to commonly misspelled words.

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing, Capital Community College. Advice and quizzes on spelling rules, hyphens, capital letters, underlining or italics, abbreviations, and numbers.

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar

Research writing

Planning and searching

Internet Public Library. A breakdown of the -research-writing process:

http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/stepfirst.htm

An overview of the major search engines and Web guides:

http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearchingt.html

Purdue Online Writing Lab. A guide to finding a topic, developing a thesis, finding sources, taking notes, and more.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html

Evaluating sources

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Extensive help with evaluating sources, including online sources:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource.html

More on evaluating sources and links to other resources:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/critical.html

Widener University. Checklists for evaluating Web pages. From the Widener home page, click on "Academics," then "Wolfgram Memorial Library," then "Evaluating Web pages."

http://www.widener.edu

Writer’s Complex, Empire State College. Useful tips for evaluating print and electronic sources.

http://www.esc.edu/writer

Taking notes and avoiding plagiarism

Student Judicial Services, University of Texas. Discussion of academic integrity, with examples and analysis.

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/sjs/academicintegrity.html

Writer’s Handbook, University of Wisconsin. Advice on par-aphrasing, with examples and analysis.

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QuotingSources.html

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Advice and an exercise on avoiding plagiarism.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University. Advice on recognizing and avoiding plagiarism.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

Integrating sources

Writer’s Handbook, University of Wisconsin. Advice on using quotations from literature.

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QuoLiterature.html

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Help with weaving quotations, paraphrases, and summaries into coherent paragraphs.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/paragrf.html

Citing sources

Purdue Online Writing Lab. Advice for citing electronic sources, plus links to multiple sites on MLA, APA, and other formats.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html

University Writing Center, California State University, Los Angeles. Advice on and examples of MLA and APA documentation formats.

http://web.calstatela.edu/centers/write_cn/document.htm

Writer’s Handbook, University of Wisconsin. Information on the major documentation styles including MLA, APA, and Chicago.

http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/Documentation.html

Online sources in the disciplines

Virtual libraries and general references

Academic Internet Resources by Major, Capital Community College. Selected links to academic resources.

http://ccc.commnet.edu/webpicks/weblist/weblist.htm

BUBL LINK. Academic Web resources organized by subject.

http://bubl.ac.uk/link

INFOMINE. Searches of scholarly Internet resources in the arts, humanities, sciences, and business and economics, along with links to journals and other resources.

http://infomine.ucr.edu

Internet Public Library. Extensive reference sections and searchable online books and journals.

http://www.ipl.org

Librarians’ Index to the Internet. A collection of subject-related links compiled by librarians.

http://www.lii.org

Library of Congress. Access to collections and services, legislative information, copyright information, FAQs, a search catalog of over 120 million items, and special presentations.

http://lcweb.loc.gov

WWW Virtual Library. A selective catalog searchable alphabetically, by subject headings, or by keyword.

http://www.vlib.org/Home.html

Art

National Gallery of Art. Access to the National Gallery’s vast collection, with images, slide shows, online tours, and special exhibitions.

http://www.nga.gov/collection

World Wide Arts Resources. An enormous site with links to museums, galleries, artists, and educational pages.

http://wwar.com

Biology

Biology Online. Biology tutorials, an online biology diction-ary, and numerous links organized by category.

http://www.biology-online.org

BIOME. A gateway to Internet sites and resources in the health and life sciences.

http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html

Business and economics

Internet Resources in Business and Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Research guides to various topics, with many links to other resources.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/bbg18.html

WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics. Organized searches of Web information on economics.

http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc

Chemistry


BioChemLinks. Links to subject guides, learning quizzes, and daily science news.

http://www.biochemlinks.com/bclinks/bclinks.cfm

ChemCenter, American Chemical Society. Resources for students, researchers, professionals, and educators. Links to the gateway site ChemResearchNews.

http://www.chemcenter.org

Communication

Communication Studies Resources, University of Iowa. Links covering advertising, cultural studies, film, journalism, media studies, political communication, rhetoric, and more.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources

Mediastudies.com. Annotated, selected links to international sites on media studies and critical thinking.

http://www.mediastudies.com

Computer science

Internet Resources. Michael Knee’s selective, annotated guide to resources in computer science.

http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjune01.html

Virtual Computer Library, University of Texas. Links covering computer technology, conferences, news and press releases, publications, and Internet information.

http://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl

Dance and theater

Brief Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies, Stetson University. A selective, annotated list of noncommercial sites.

http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html

Henry’s Dance Hotlist. General and specialized dance resources and links to newsgroups.

http://scarecrow.caps.ou.edu/~hneeman/dance_hotlist.html

Education

Education World. Information and guidance on administration, lesson planning, curriculum, technology in the classroom, and current issues.

http://www.education-world.com

EdWeb. Links to general education indexes and sites on K–12 subjects, curriculum standards, and other disciplines within education.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html

Engineering

ICE: Internet Connections for Engineering, Cornell University. An index of links in engineering disciplines.

http://www.englib.cornell.edu/ice

Science and Engineering Library, University of California, San Diego. Links to databases, journals, and other Web sites.

http://scilib.ucsd.edu

Thermodynamics Research Library, University of Illinois, Chicago. Links to educational and other sites in thermodynamics and mechanics.

http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/TRL_html

Environmental science

Conservation Databases, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Databases on threatened species, protected areas, forests, and marine and coastal resources.

http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cis

Envirolink Library. Bulletins and links to educational and government resources and more.

http://envirolink.netforchange.com

Ethnic or gender studies

Ethnic, Multicultural, and Race Relations on the Internet. Links to directories, research centers, associations, and sites on distributive justice, race relations, and so on.

http://www.library.miami.edu/netguides/socrace.html#Relations

Voice of the Shuttle Gender Studies Page. Links from the main page to resources on women’s studies, gay and lesbian studies, men’s studies, and so on.

http://vos.ucsb.edu

Geology

Building the Digital Earth, Cornell University. Links for geology research and geology education.

http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu

US Geological Survey. Links to USGS reports and educational resources on a range of geological topics.

http://info.er.usgs.gov

Health sciences

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis. Information on diseases and conditions as well as health advice.

http://www.mayohealth.org

Medweb Medical Search Engine. Subject-related links including biological and physical sciences, diseases and conditions, drugs, and medical specialties.

http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb

History

HyperHistory. Timelines, "lifelines" of historically significant individuals, maps, an index, and other resources.

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Institute of Historical Research. Links organized by type of history, geographical area, period, and type of resource.

http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/Resources

Languages and literature

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, SIL International. Links from the home page to an extensive bibliography of world languages indexed by author, country, and subject.

http://www.ethnologue.com

Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Republished. A vast electronic archive of texts in the public domain, including both reference books and literature.

http://www.promo.net/pg

Voice of the Shuttle English Literature Page. Links from the main page to general resources on English literature and sections on specific concentrations (Victorian, American, and so on), on minority literature, and on creative writing.

http://vos.ucsb.edu

Mathematics

Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics. Questions ranging from fundamentals to famous unsolved problems as well as games and trivia.

http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/math-faq/math-faq.html

Math Forum’s Internet Mathematics Library. Topics in mathematics plus educational materials and references.

http://mathforum.org/library

Music

ArtandCulture.com. Link from the home page to "Music," then to subject headings in blues, classical, country, jazz, opera, pop, and other genres.

http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/home

Music Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services, University of Houston Libraries. Annotated links to resources in musicology, music theory, music education, and music therapy.

http://info.lib.uh.edu/indexes/music.htm

Philosophy and religion

Philosophy in Cyberspace. Links to annotated indexes on branches of philosophy, texts, organizations, conferences, and forums.

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil

Virtual Religion Index, Rutgers University. Interdisciplinary site organized by various branches of religious and philosophical studies.

http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html

Physics and astronomy

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, NASA. A gateway site with educational materials, archi-val data, software, and general astronomical tools.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov

Physics Web. Latest news, a job bank, and links to organizations, educational materials, media, computing, exhibitions, and references.

http://physicsweb.org

Political science and government

American Law Sources Online. Introduction to the legal systems of the USA, Canada, and Mexico, with links to other online resources.

http://www.lawsource.com/also

Federal Gateway: US Government Information Clearinghouse. An organized guide to federal, state, and local government agencies.

http://fedgate.org

Political Science Page, West Virginia University. Links in political science, international affairs, public policy, and related fields.

http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/polycy/psother.html

Psychology

Psych Central. John Grohol’s annotated directory for mental health and psychology.

http://psychcentral.com/resources

PsychSite. A public-service site with links to educational and professional Web sites, chat rooms, and online resources.

http://stange.simplenet.com/psychsite/about.html

Sociology and anthropology

Anthropology Resources on the Internet. Resources and links in anthropology, archaeology, and ethnography.

http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm

SocioWeb. Web indexes and annotated links to commercial and educational sites on sociology and sociological theory.

http://www.sonic.net/~markbl/socioweb



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