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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
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- 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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