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Online Writing Labs & General Resources for Writers
- The Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts
- The Online Writery (Nice Flash introduction)
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Resources for Writers (George Mason University)
General Grammar Resources
- The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation and Style (Exhaustive, includes worksheets with answers, quizzes, and interactive quizzes)
Writing about Literature
- Writing about Literature (Excellent resource. A downloadable PDF file)
- Writing about Literature
- Writing Papers of Literary Analysis (rather prescriptive, but still good advice)
- Writing about Fiction
- A Practical Guide to Writing Papers about Literature (a short, but useful list of points to remember when writing about literature)
For Teachers
Listening Resources
- The English Learner Movie Guides
- Interactive Listening Activities
- Randall's Cyber Listening Lab
- National Public Radio
- Complete List of NPR's Programs
- Public Broadcasting System (PBS) (most recent programs are available as both audio and video)
- Pulse of the Planet ("2-minute sound portraits of the planet Earth")
- Engineering and Life (scroll down to the bottom of the page to find archived materials)
- American Rhetoric (Online speech bank)
- The History Channel
- NPR's StoryCorps Archive (Stories from the StoryCorps project. Everyday Americans interviewed by friends and family members)
- Wired for Books archive (Interviews with well-known authors and readings from literary works)
Reading Resources
UWS
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