Useful Resources for Composition

Citing Electronic and Print Sources
http://www.usd.edu/engl/citingsources.html

A Student's Guide to Research on the World Wide Web
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/news/youcanuse/craig/index.html

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (1918 edition)
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Online dictionary, thesaurus, zip code finder, and more
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/reference.html

Acronym Dictionary
After selecting Reference Desk, you will find a wide variety of resources including the acronym dictionary, almanacs, and other directories.
http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This encyclopedia is under construction.
http://plato.stanford.edu/

Electronic Books and Other Online References
This page is actually four pages long and contains references that will help you quickly locate hundreds of electronic texts, journals, and magazines.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar_original.htm

Library Catalogs Worldwide You Can Access with Telnet
Once connected, you can select the country and location to view contact instructions.
gopher://libgopher.yale.edu

Library of Congress MARVEL
You will access the Library of Congress Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library information available at the Library of Congress. Although there is a menu option that requires a password, you will also see an option for a public connection for which you will not need a password. gopher://marvel.loc.gov

MOOcentral
All about MOOs, MUDs and MUSHs--how to use them, where to find them (features great pics of cows!).
http://www.pitt.edu/~jrgst7/MOOcentral.html

Roget's Thesaurus and Other Desktop References
Desktop references listed include Roget's Thesaurus, an area code lookup, city/zip code lookup, and nutrient data.
gopher://odie.niaid.nih.gov

Web Roget's Thesaurus
Yet another way to access Roget's Thesaurus.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Web Webster's Dictionary
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster

Useful Writing-Related Sites

A Guide to Isaac Asimov's Essays
http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/WWW/essay_guide.html

Five Tools for Writing Timed Essays
http://splavc.spjc.cc.fl.us/hooks/hooksessay.html

The Online Writery
Lots of helpful writing tips on this site.
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/writery.html

Vermont Portfolio Program (Writing): Mini-Lesson in Writing
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~union/writing.html

A Portfolio Writing Rubric or Scoring Guide
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~union/writing.rubric.gif

Online Writing Labs on the World Wide Web

Interactive OWLS:

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/OWL/owl.html
The University of Michigan OWL

http://www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/cola/OWL/
Dakota State

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/writery.html
The Online Writery

http://athena.english.vt.edu/owl_www/owl.html
Virginia Tech OWL

Information-based OWLs:

http://www.ume.maine.edu/~wcenter/
University of Maine Writing Center Online

http://www.hu.mtu.edu/wc/welcome.html
Michigan Tech Writing Center

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/writing-lab/Homepage.html
Bowling Green Writing Lab

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/uwc/.html/main.html
University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center

http://www.ucet.ufl.edu:80/writing/nwe.html
University of Florida Networked Writing Environment

Resource-based OWLS

http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/introduction.html
Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jcross/word.html
WORD--Oregon's Writing Online Resource Directory

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/home.html
RPI Writing Center

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/hot-to.html
Carnegie Mellon

http://www.ctl.duke.edu/
Duke University Resources

gopher://gopher.uiuc.edu:70/11/ Libraries/writers
University of Illinois Online Handbook

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