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The following links will help reinforce concepts learned in class. Please use them as resources in your reading & writing. Be sure to email me if you come across any broken links. Thank you!


Writing Tutorials, Guides & Strategies

GENERAL WRITING SKILLS

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (POWA) This comprehensive site goes through prewriting through different modes of development with sections on editing and documenting sources.

PREWRITING

A OWL at Purdue prewriting page

CONCRETE DETAIL & COMMENTARY

Comprehensive concrete detail & commentary page from Poway School

THE THESIS STATEMENT

A Univeristy of North Carolina page on thesis statements

Indiana University's page on thesis statements

INTRODUCTIONS & CONCLUSIONS

Writing an Introduction from Purdue's Online Writing Lab

St. Cloud State's page on developing an introduction

St. Cloud State's page on writing conclusions

Writing Conclusions from Writer's Web

BODY PARAGRAPHS & ORGANIZATION

University of Victoria's Methods of Organizing Your Essay

A Purdue page on transitional devices

Developing Unified and Coherent Paragraphs from the University of Ottawa

VOICE/TONE, WORD CHOICE & SENTENCE FLUENCY

Putting Voice into a Paper from Richmond State University

A Purdue page on active & passive voice

A UNC page on word choice

A page on denotation & connotation, with emphasis on figurative language and irony

EDITING & PROOFREADING

Purdue's Steps in Editing page

A UNC page on proofreading

Common Grammatical Errors & How to Fix Them from Sweet Briar College

RUBRICS

Six Traits writing assessment rubric

A sample AP rubric

Viking Ship:


Language Arts 3-4 H

THEME STATEMENTS

How to write a theme statement

SHORT FICTION

A glossary of basic fiction terms

TIMED WRITE STRATEGIES

Timed writing techniques from the College Board

Writing to a prompt

THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Tips for writing a personal narrative

1984

1984 etext

1984 online (complete text)

1984 SCORE Teacher Guide

Newspeak dictionary

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Online etext of Brave New World

Mike Wallace interview of Aldous Huxley, 1958

Brave New World novel guide

"Five and a Half Utopias" by Steven Weinberg

excerpt from Sir Thomas More's Utopia

BEOWULF

Resources for the study of Beowulf

Readings from Beowulf in Old English

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Etext of Great Expectations

Victorian Web's page on Great Expectations

1861 review of Dickens' novel

CUNY pages on Dickens (covering thematic elements, the endings, etc.)

ANTIGONE

Good study guide for Antigone

Background to Greek tragedy

SENSE & SENSIBILITY

Online etext of the novel

Genealogical chart for characters in Sense & Sensibility

CANTERBURY TALES

Several versions of the tales (Middle English and Modern English available)

Background to Canterbury Tales

MACBETH & WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Tragedy & the tragic hero PowerPoint

An incredible Shakespearean glossary

Shakespeare's Globe

How to write a sonnet

Shakespeare Authorship Debate


English 101 & 102

Organizing evidence ppt

GENERATIONS PAPER

Generations PowerPoint

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY AND QUESTIONING STRATEGIES

Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking

Socratic Seminars

HAMLET & ARCHETYPES

Archetypes PowerPoint

Joseph Hall's Charters of Vertues and Vices

Hamlet Online, a web resource for the play

Hamlet text

RHETORIC & SPEECHES

American Rhetoric, a collection of famous American speeches

The History Channel Great Speeches

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

RIO SALADO COLLEGE PAGES

Rio Salado College home page

Rio's OWL (Online Writing Lab)

Rio Salado Library

HELP WITH FINDING SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

University of Texas at San Antonio (scholarly)

A page on scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources

SATIRE, PARODY & HUMOR

Jonathan Swift page (including biography & major works)

Literary Encyclopedia definition of "satire"

WRITING LINKS

Complete writing mentor list

Online thesaurus

Thesis statements

A descriptive checklist & example paragraphs

Narrative and descriptive essays

Compare/contrast essay help

Classification & analysis

Process analysis essay writing

Argumentation/persuasion

Longman page on argumentation/persuasion


Grammar links

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Purdue grammar site


Food for Thought and Fun

Barnes & Noble online book browser (by genre)

No time for the classics? Try Book-a-Minute!

Plagiarism and how to avoid it

Helping gifted students with stress management

Time management for students

Sodaconstructor

College Bound Reading List

University of Arizona

Northern Arizona University

Arizona State University


 

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