Writing Resources

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 

• Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism
• Designing Effective Writing Assignments

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

• How Stuff Works

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