Helpful Class Links
MLA (Modern Language Association) Official Style Website: http://www.mla.org/style
The style recommended by the association for preparing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers concerns itself with the mechanics of writing, such as punctuation, quotation, and documentation of sources. MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for nearly half a century.
A Quick MLA Style Resource Guide - Printable:
http://hartlandhighschool.us/teachers/oake/documents/HowtoCiteSourcesinMLABibliographyForm.doc
APA (American Psychological Asociation) Official Style Website: http://apastyle.apa.org/
When editors or teachers ask you to write in "APA style," they do not mean writing style. They are referring to the editorial style that many of the social and behavioral sciences have adopted to present written material in the field. Editorial style consists of rules or guidelines that a publisher observes to ensure clear and consistent presentation of written material. The American Psychological Association has established a style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes. Many others working in the social and behavioral sciences have adopted this style as their standard as well. Please note that when researchers talk about APA style, they may be referring to APA's system of citations in text and reference format. If you are unsure, you should clarify with your instructor or editor how they define "APA style."
Information about the A.P. exams and the usefulness of A.P. courses:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,1281,151-162-0-4499,00.html
Inkspell is a website that specializes in the Memoir. http://www.inkspell.homestead.com/memoir.html
American Rhetoric is an index to and growing database of 5,000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm
The POETS English Vocabulary Assistant (Eva) provides further helpful links, related to studies within the field of literarure and writing. http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/Eva/
NPR (National Public Radio) is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of 26 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations. Each NPR Member Station serves local listeners with a distinctive combination of national and local programming. With original online content and audio streaming, npr.org offers hourly newscasts, special features and ten years of archived audio and information. http://www.npr.org/
The Works of Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabib.htm
DianaHacker.com is an on-line style guide for all your English grammar and formatting questions.
http://www.dianahacker.com/pocket/index.html
Indian Country Today: The Nations' Leading American Indian News Source
http://www.indiancountry.com/author.cfm?id=471
The Literature Network: Offers searchable online literature with an author index. They currently have over 1,900 full books and over 3,000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Their quotations database has over 8,500 quotes. They also have Literature Forms for posting literature-based questions.
http://www.online-literature.com/
Literarure.Org: This site is trying to bring real books to people through the Internet. On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature, fiction, and classic scientific works.
At Bibliomania you can find: free online literature with more than 2,000 classic texts; literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books; read classic fiction, drama, poetry, short stories, and contemporary articles and interviews; study guides to the most read books; research their reference books, dictionaries, quotations, classic non-fiction, biographies, and religious texts; and buy the books personally read and recommended by Bibliomania. http://www.bibliomania.com/
Page By Page Books has hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read. http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
ReadBookOnline is a site containing about one thousand books from hundreds of authors. The collection of these books are in the following categories: fictions/novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays. Many of these books are works of American Literature, English Literature, and Irish Literature from well-known authors.
http://www.readbookonline.net/
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