Link List 
as of 01/19/05 

    Reference Books   

•     Dictionary:

                http://www.m-w.com

•     Thesaurus:

                http://www.thesaurus.com

•     Great Books Online, including reference books:

                http://www.bartleby.com

•      The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

                http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

               "Words and Expressions Commonly Misused" (Strunk and White)

                http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk3.html   

    LIBRARIES AND WRITING CENTERS

•     The Minnesota State University at Mankato Library Web Site:

                http://www.lib.mnsu.edu/

•     The Writing Center at Capital City Community College:

                http://webster.commnet.edu/faculty/~simonds/center.htm

•      Grammar Exercises (at Capital):

                http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

•        Purdue University's Online Writing Lab:

                http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

    DOING RESEARCH     

•       Easy-to-Use Internet Search & Source Evaluation Page (Rice University)

                http://www.rice.edu/fondren/tmp/netguides/strategies.html

•        Evaluating Source Content (at Purdue):

                 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource3.html

•        U.C. Berkeley's Tutorial on Using the Internet for Research

                 Search Strategies:

                  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/

•         U.C. Berkeley's Tutorial 5-Step Internet Search. Try it!   

          http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Help/search.html

   

•         U.C. Berkeley's Tutorial on Evaluating Web Pages:      

                  http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

•         U.C. Berkeley's Web Page Evaluation Checklist Handout:

                  http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Handouts.html

    CITING SOURCES

•          MLA Style (at Purdue):

                    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

•          Easy-to-use MLA Works Cited page (at Capitol Community College):

                   http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/preparing.shtml

•          Annotated Bibliography (at Purdue):

                    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbibEX.html

     WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS

•        Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (at Purdue):

                    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html

•         Paraphrasing (at Purdue):

                    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

     WRITING ARGUMENTS   

•           Writing Arguments (at University of N. Carolina)

                    http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/argument.html       

•           Writing Arguments (at Purdue):

                    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_argpers.html

•           Arguments at Michael Harvey's "Nuts and Bolts" Guide

                    http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/arguments.htm

    HANDBOOKS & OTHER SOURCES

•          Richard Jewell's (Inver Hills Community College, MNSCU) Online English Handbook

                   http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/grammar/

•        "Getting an A on an English Paper" by Jack Lynch, Rutgers University

                   http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/EngPaper/index.html

•         The Writer's Way by Jack Rawlins, supplementary materials online at Houghton Mifflin:

                   http://college.hmco.com/english/rawlins/writers_way/5e/students/index.html

•         Pocket Keys for Writers by Anne Raimes, supplementary materials to handbook online at Houghton Mifflin

                   http://college.hmco.com/english/raimes/pocket_writers/1e/students/index.html

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