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| MLA Online is the official website for the MLA style manual; the FAQs link answers frequently asked questions about using MLA style in citing resources. |
| APA Online is the official website for the APA Publications Manual; in includes style tips and electronic resource citation rules. |
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The Chicago
Manual of Style FAQ answers many questions about citing resources using
the Chicago style. |
| Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides extensive tips on the writing process, grammar and punctuation, research and documenting sources, etc. |
| A list of other OWLs is available at Purdue's web page. |
| High School Hub lists many links to grammar and writing guides and spelling and vocabulary resources as well as literature and public speaking web sites; the literary criticism links are fantastic. |
| Common Errors in English provides a one-stop web page with most of the common English spelling and usage errors, including stumpers like effect/affect, loose/lose, and to/too/two. |
| Guide to Writing a Basic Essay provides step-by-step directions for writing a basic essay; it discusses the development of thesis, outline, introduction, body, and conclusion of the writing. |
| Hot Paper Topics. Specific sites for specific subjects from the St. Ambrose College in Iowa. |
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A Glossary of Literary Terms
and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices offers extensive definitions of
literary terms and devices with several examples for each term or device. |
| Project Gutenberg currently has 2,775 searchable electronic texts online; you can read whole novels, epic poems, fairy tales, and children's books on your computer. |
| SearcheBooks.com is a search engine that indexes the full text of thousands of online books through a simple keyword search. |
| The On-line Books Page, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, has more than 12,000 books in various formats and an be searched by author, title, and subject. |
| The Literary Web: New Dimensions in Literature offers literary resources, links to authors on the web, writing resources, and a fine collection of children's literature. |
| Aesop's Fables-Online Collection features 655+ wonderful fables from Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen to Grimm's fairy tales; this site is indexed with a searchable format for easy reading. |
| Classics for Young People includes the full text and some illustrations of many classics like Little Women, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, The Gift of the Magi, and many more. |
| Alex: Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
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netLibrary is
a database of electronic books available to and cataloged in the Southwest
Virginia Community College Library. Please note access instructions. |
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The Poet's Corner has many poems in full text searchable by author,
title, and subject; the site also has links to authors' biographies, poets'
pictures, and other poetry collections. |
| Bartleby.com does Shakespeare in a big way with searchable texts of his plays and poems plus quotations from his plays. |
| Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet provides a scholarly list of sites and resources to Shakespeare's life and works, criticisms, the Renaissance period, and even a translation of his will. |
| Author Links at WesexBooks.com provides a list of author web sites for many classic and modern American authors. |
| A Student's History of American Literature traces the history of American literature from 1607 to the present by centuries and by movements. |
| Modern American Poetry: the Poets lists resources for many modern American poets such as G. Grooks, E. E. Cummings, P. Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, R. Frost, A. Ginsburg, L. Hughes, R. Jarrell, E. Masters, E. Millay, M. Moore, S. Plath, E. Pound, A. Rich, T. Roethke, C. Sandburg, A. Sexton, W. Stevens, W.C. Williams. |
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Twentieth Century
Poetry in English offers many resources for modern poets such as
Williams, Stevens, Pound,
Moore, Frost, Eliot, Angelou, Bishop, Brooks, Cummings, Dunbar, Eliot, Frost,
Hughes, Millay, Moore, Plath, Pound, Rich, Sandburg, Sexton, Stevens, Williams. |
| Author Links at WessexBooks.com provides a list of author web sites for many classic and modern British and world authors. |
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Britannia: the Arthurian
Century has many King Arthur web sites for the student; it has
resources, historical maps, biographies, etc. |
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The Virginia Community College System and the Virtual Library of Virginia have excellent resources available to SwVCC students. Click this link to access the list of Literature and the Arts databases. Most of these require password access. |
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