Department Chair

Cliff Davis
Office: IWV 319A
P: 760.384.6316
Email C. Davis

Academic Writing

• Purdue University OWL's "Writing a Thesis Statement"
• Dartmouth Composition Center's "What is an Academic Paper?"
• UW Writing Center's Writer's Handbook for Academic Writing

Academic Writing about Literature

• Purdue University OWL's "Writing about Literature"
• UNC Writing Center's "Writing About Literature"
• Norton's "Writing About Literature"
• Plot Summary vs. Interpretive Writing

Essay-Writing

• Nuts & Bolts Guide to Writing
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• University of Victoria's Writer’s Guide
• Principles on Composition
• Advice on Academic Writing (and Reading, too)
• Paragraph Development and the Use of Quotations
• Developing Coherent Paragraphs

Grammar & Editing

• Guide to Grammar & Writing  
• Punctuation Made Simple  
• 11 Rules of Writing
• Exercise Central

Guide to Style Information

• The Elements of Style
• Wordiness

Guide to Research Writing & Documentation Guides

• Cerro Coso’s Learning Resource Center
• Bartleby’s Great Books Online (also dictionary and thesaurus)
• Research & Documentation (MLA)
• The Bedford Researcher (see Tutorials and Writing Links)
• Research & Reference

Reading

• Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
• Reading Poetry
• How to Read Essays, Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

Writing about Literature

• Purdue University, "Writing about Literature"
• Univ. North Carolina Writing Center’s “Writing About Literature”
• Writing Papers of Literary Analysis

British Literature

• Student Resources to Accompany the Longman Anthology of British Literature
• Timeline of British Literature, Politics, and Culture
• Chronological List of Literary Periods (not exclusively British, but includes useful information on Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary periods)
• Lit Links (useful guides to essays, poetry, fiction, drama, and critical theory)
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Strangers to Us All (how to read poetry, a beginner's guide to poetry, classical essays on poetry, nearly everything on poetry!)
• Romantic Circles (one of the best web resources for Romanticism)
• Victorian Research Web (always the first place to go for Victorian research)
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research

Logic and Logical Fallacies

• Adam Smith Institute, "Logical Fallacies"
  
   

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