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Links Table of Contents Literacy
Projects Time for
Browsin' Helpful Sites for all Students of
English News
Sources Government American
Indian Studies African
American Studies Chicano/Chicana
Studies Studies in Gender and Sexual Orientation Helpful Sites for all Students of EnglishWhat follows is a partial list of web sites that contain useful information and links to compilations of links about matters usually of concern to members of Sigma Tau Delta. We started with data from the National Sigma Tau Delta Site and have now added to it. We welcome any suggestions for interesting sites. Language, Grammar, and Editing Grammar Bytes includes and index of grammar terms, interactive exercises, handouts for students and teachers, and more! Grammar Lady On-Line According to the site itself, "The purpose of the site is to be helpful, to raise consciousness about correct language use, and to remind everyone of the ways to have fun with language." SharpWriter.com is a comprehensive commercial site with links to every sort of reference and assistance one can imagine for the harried writer, the student of the English language, and any teacher who wants to do his or her best to turn reluctant students into masters of the "mother tongue." The introductory blurb on the home page of this site says it all: "Whatever type of writing you do, you need help and information. Whether you are a technical writer, a novelist, a student, an office worker writing a memo, a journalist writing a travel article --SharpWriter.Com is your resource. It's a writer's handy virtual desktop! Everything you need is at your fingertips, beginning with the free Quick References For Writers." "OUR
MUTUAL FRIEND: The Scholarly Pages" is an electronic archival resource dedicated
to gathering and providing scholarly information on Dickens's last completed novel.
Designed to complement the BBC's 1998 dramatization of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, "OMF: The
Scholarly Pages" offers a virtually inexhaustible storehouse of information for those
who wish to explore in depth the complicated "web" of this dense but powerful
novel. VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE HOME PAGE Maintained by UCSB English professor Alan Liu, the Voice of the Shuttle could likely become the definitive humanities research web page. Liu coordinates the work of numerous contributors who submit URLs for their own project as well as sites they deem relevant for VoS's scope. The site provides links to subject guides for all areas of humanities as well as links to teaching resources, libraries and museums, reference resources, journals and zines, and publishers and booksellers. This is a very comprehensive list of resources in the humanities. The site maintains a keyword searchable index of its links. Literary Resources on the Net is a site created and maintained by Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania; it is an extraordinarily valuable collection of sites containing webliographies on sites and resources dealing with the following literatures and areas: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Bibliography & History of the Book Internet Resources in Literature: A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature. This site is not intended to be an exhaustive index of all literary resources; rather it functions both as a descriptive meta-index to all things literary and as a review of the most important lists of literary resources and collections of literary links that proliferate on the Internet. This site is a good place to browse. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ "Mitsuharu Matsuoka, an associate professor of language and culture at Nagoya University in Japan, provides access to an index of on-line resources on literature in Britain, the United States, and Japan. The site, which is available in both English and Japanese, includes links to information on European and American authors, to sites related to linguistics and language in Japan, to the home pages of graduate programs in English at Japanese universities, and to information on Japanese culture."--Bianca P. Floyd, _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, October 2, 1998, A31. My comment: This is a splendid, interesting, well-organized entrance into vast amounts of literary sources and materials on the Web. The Children's Literature Web Guide provides a rich selection of sources for students of children's literature, teachers, and parents. The Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) was founded in 1994 to coordinate and develop a range of electronic projects related to interdisciplinary studies in the culture and history of the United States. Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States MELUS--
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic While some sections have not recently been updated, this site nevertheless offers assistance--in the form of webliographies and other resources, conferences, discussion lists, and publications--to those who would study and teach Latino American, Native American, African American, Asian and Pacific American, and ethnically specific Euro-American literary works, their authors, and their cultural contexts. Resources for Classical Literature Includes links to search engines, lists of resources for classics and criticism, including art and archaeology, resources and articles on classical literature and culture, and specific authors. Global Schoolhouse "Linking Kids, Teachers, and Parents Around the World" Outta Ray's Head Lesson Plans describes itself as, "A collection of lesson plans with handouts by Ray Saitz and many contributors; all of the lessons have been used and refined in the classroom."
Encyclopedia of British History: 1700-1930 A comprehensive encyclopedia being produced for the National
Grid of Learning and a completely free resource for all students of British history. The
encyclopedia currently contains over 1,000 entries and is an attempt to show the history
of Britain through the eyes of people from all levels of society. This is a reference work
that provides as much information about Marie Corbett as it does about Queen Victoria;
where Henry Hetherington's life is examined in the same sort of detail as that of the Duke
of Wellington. Each entry includes narrative, illustrations, primary sources and
bibliography. The text within each entry is hyper-linked to other relevant pages in the
encyclopedia. In this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great
detail. The sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the
writer, artist, newspaper, organization, etc., that produced the material. The
encyclopedia is being created in sections. I quote from Carolyn Kotlas, 2/26/99, CIT Infobits, February 1999: The Concordances of Great Books is an online searchable index of eighty-six authors and 200 full texts. William A. Williams, Jr. began the project to make texts related to the Mormon religion more accessible for scholarly study. From there he branched out to include American, European, and classical literature texts that are no longer under copyright. Williams' collection includes works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tacitus, Herman Melville, George Eliot, and the Bronte sisters. For more information, contact William A. Williams, Jr., email: willprog@sprintmail.com An article about the site ("Lover of Detail Serves
Literary Searchers" by Tina Kelley, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 21, 1999), includes
links to other concordances on the Web. The article is available online at http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/circuits/ In addition to its concordance function, the site has an extensive links page, well worth checking out. http://www.unc.edu/cit/resources/journals.html The Center for Instructional Technology has compiled a
valuable list of publications that appear whole or in part on the WWW and includes such
journals as: The American Prospect, American Scientist, The American Spectator,
Application Development Advisor, ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and
Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, The Atlantic Monthly, Granta, and dozens of others.
Check it out. Introduction to Literary Criticism Schoolwork.org is an online library. Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy describes itself as, ". . . a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a wide variety of informational resources available on the World Wide Web that relate to the concept of information literacy." The English Browser describes itself as, "A quick reference and news library" where one can, "Browse through the books and books reviews, magazine and newspaper racks, the reference and area studies shelves for the latest news updates, book and film reviews and reference sites." |
