Online Writing Labs & General Resources for Writers
- The Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Resources for Writers (George Mason University)
- The Write Place Catalogue (St. Cloud State University)
- LEO: Literacy Education Online (also located at St. Cloud University, but takes a more intuitive approach to locating the information you might want
General Grammar Resources
- The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation and Style (Exhaustive, includes worksheets with answers, quizzes, and interactive quizzes)
Specific Grammar Topics
- Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives (detailed explanation)
Specific Writing Topics
- Outlines (includes 'templates' for analytical and argumentation papers)
- Developing an Introduction: The Top-Down Model
- Introductions, detailed discussion of
- Conclusions, detailed discussion of
- Proofreading Strategies
Writing about Literature
- Writing about Literature
- Writing Papers of Literary Analysis (rather prescriptive, but still good advice, particularly the section on avoiding pitfalls)
- Writing about Fiction
Writing a Research Paper
Research and Citation (Click on the link "Research and Citation")
For Teachers
- Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism
- Designing Effective Writing Assignments (You may have to scroll down the page a bit to find the resource links on designing writing assignments)
Listening Resources
- 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)
- BBC4
- Pulse of the Planet ("2-minute sound portraits of the planet Earth")
- 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)
- StoryCorps archive
- Wired for Books archive (Interviews with well-known authors and readings from literary works – includes Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ray Bardbury, Isaac Asimov, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Updike, Doris Lessing, and many more)
Reading Resources
- How Stuff Works
- Larry King Live Show (transcripts of interviews from 2000 to the present)
- The English Learner Movie Guides
- Vocabulary.Com (a rich source for vocabulary practice material)
- Confusing Words (a searchable database of over 3,000 confusible words)
- Notorious Confusables: Part I (A
- Notorious Confusables: Part II
- Fun with Words (Who says learning vocabulary has to be dull?)
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