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This site has a series of Java based review games dealing with common errors, plurals, tenses, and other reviews of basic grammar.

This site provides access to a variety of free online resources from federal agencies in the following subject areas: Arts & Music, Health & Physical Education, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science.

This series of podcasts contains text and audio readings of more than 300 poems.

This online textbook by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University College provides a basic explanation of argument. The site introduction states,

"The following sections form a basic introduction to some of the more important elements in the analysis and construction of arguments. The discussion begins with some very basic ideas and moves on quickly to a few points essential for effective written or spoken argumentation. The sections are structured so as to encourage students to develop skills which will make their arguments, especially their written presentations in essays or reports, more persuasive and which will improve their ability to analyze arguments.

"Because this handbook is designed primarily for undergraduates in Liberal Studies and English courses, it pays considerable attention to what are probably the most important written assignments in these areas of college study, the argumentative (or persuasive) essay and research paper. However, most of the material applies equally well to other subjects and to spoken presentations."

Classic Reader is an online collection of nearly 4,000 texts (nearly 2,000 short stories) in the public domain. All versions are full and unabridged and can be downloaded by registered visitors (registration is free).

Jack Gopher has created a series of short online videos demonstrating how to do specific tasks in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Word 2007.

Although designed for K-12, this citation maker can be useful. Students choose the type of citation, then enter data.

Poetry Out Loud is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is intended to promote and support appreciation for poetry through memorization and performance. The site includes the text of a number of poems, audio recordings of poems, videos of student readings/perfromances, and teaching curricula.

This PowerPoint by Chattanooga State faculty member Brian Hale identifies several logical fallacies, providing definitions, examples from the pro-life/pro-choice debate, and a cartoon illustration for each.

This site contains definitions of fallacies, including a table categorizing fallacies, and a series of simple exercises in identifying fallacies.

The Library of Congress has 50 digitized texts of rare books including The Arabian Nights, A Child's Garden of Verses, Ballad of the Lost Hare, A Christmas Carol, Humpty Dumpty, The Grasshopper Stories, Mother Goose Finger Plays, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Rocket Book, The Secret Garden, Stories from Hans Andersen, The Three Bears, Three Little Pigs, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Although written primarily for a high school audience, this site is a useful, simple explanation to the research process from finding a topic to completing the finished paper. See short video.

Best of the Web lists a variety of resources for creative writing. The following quotes are taken from the web site's "About" page: "The original "Best of the Web" got its start in 1994 when Brandon Plewe, then a student at State University of New York, Buffalo, created a platform enabling the burgeoning online community to nominate and vote for best-of-class websites in a variety of categories. From the initial concept of Web Awards, Best of the Web transformed into a comprehensive directory categorizing content-rich, well designed websites" ("About," par. 1). "To rank among the Best of the Web, a site must adhere to the strict criteria of editors who ensure that it contains substantive unique content, navigates in a user-friendly manner, contains no broken links or pictures, is up and running 24/7, and conforms to universally accepted web standards. In this way, quality sites are added to the directory on a daily basis and listed in relevant categories" ("About," par. 3).

Best of the Web lists literature resources grouped by topics and genres. The following quotes are taken from the web site's "About" page: "The original "Best of the Web" got its start in 1994 when Brandon Plewe, then a student at State University of New York, Buffalo, created a platform enabling the burgeoning online community to nominate and vote for best-of-class websites in a variety of categories. From the initial concept of Web Awards, Best of the Web transformed into a comprehensive directory categorizing content-rich, well designed websites" ("About," par. 1). "To rank among the Best of the Web, a site must adhere to the strict criteria of editors who ensure that it contains substantive unique content, navigates in a user-friendly manner, contains no broken links or pictures, is up and running 24/7, and conforms to universally accepted web standards. In this way, quality sites are added to the directory on a daily basis and listed in relevant categories" ("About," par. 3).

The Open Library is part of the Internet Archive project. "Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website" (Open Library, par. 3)

"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public" ("Welcome to the Archive" Internet Archive). The site has links to more than 112,000 movies, 47,000 concerts, 238,000 audio recordings, and 369,000 books, all of which are sorted into sub-groups.

This interactive web site shows users the fundamentals of connecting to the Internet, using browsers, filling in online forms, finding resources on the Internet, using e-mail, protecting security, and participating in online communities. Quizzes are given at each stage.

This site has a variety of study skills resources on topics including studying, classroom participation, learning with others, online learning, reading skills, writing skills, math, and science and technology.

This site contains some basic strategies on public speaking and also contains information on "personal branding," identifying those personal characteristics that mark a person and can be used to make a person a more effective speaker.

Aimed at the career professional, the Mind Tools career training site includes a variety of tools to help the business professional with public speaking.

This site has a collection of free lessons on public speaking. The site is, however, supported by advertising, but the advertising is not too intrusive. The School for Champions site also lists resources for a variety of other academic disciplines.

This site has a collection of over 100 articles on 20 topics related to public speaking including audience, audio visuals and props, openings, closings, handouts, stage fright, and story telling techniques. The site home page, however, does have an annoying popup advertisement.

Part of the American University in Cairo OWL, this site developed by Tom Johnson has ten steps which move through research, analysis, brainstorming, thesis, outline, introduction, paragraphs, conclusion, MLA style, and language with practical helps in each section. The site includes interactive practice sessions for analysis (including the rhetorical modes), writing, documentation, and grammar.

While this site has a login to some resources, many of the resources are free and linked from the two side menus: Book-Specific Resources and RE: Writing Resources. The site includes "interactive tutorials, research activities, student writing samples, and links

This site has grammar mp3 files that students can listen to or download. A transript of the audio files is also available in PDF format. There are also a few podcasts on research and writing process.

This is a new section added to the Research page. It includes some links originally listed under plagiarism as well as some new links.

OttoBib will create a citation list in several formats from lists of ISBN numbers, so it only works for books, which makes it of limited value.

This site features video clips, poems, and discussions of poetry by various writers including Mark Strand and Donald Hall.

This site is sponsored by UC Berkeley. The site includes audio and video readings of poems. "Hosted by Robert Hass and university librarian Thomas Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem" (Lunch Poems). The site includes a link to video available from You-Tube.

This site maintained by Poetry Magazine is excellent. The Poetry Tool allows users to search for poems by author, title, first line, category (theme), occasion, audio/video feed, and commentary among other search parameters. The site includes an online journal, reading guides, and links to other sites on poetry.

"Poetry International Web [is] a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet (sic). PIW brings you news, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation" (Poetry International Web). The site presents more than twenty editors from more than twenty countries. Poetry from every continent is represented on the site.

Although this site has a quasi-religious theme, it hosts a nice collection of poems. Poems are categorized by them and by American, British, Contemporary, and Nobel Prize poets.

This is a collection of speeches and commentary by and about famous African American speakers. An iTunes feed is also available.

This is an RSS feed/iTunes feed of audio recordings of famous early American documents and speeches.

This is an RSS feed/iTunes feed of audio recordings famous speeches from orators, politicians, and other famous people. New speeches are added weekly.

This is an RSS feed/iTunes feed of hour long audio recordings of national speeches taken from various organizations, including the National Press Club, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Aspen Institute. New speeches are added weekly.

This site provides a variety of writing resources for instructors including online journals (WAC Journal, Across the Disciplines, RhetNet), online books, an online research exchange, and other resources.

This site is free and sponsored by McGraw Hill. The site contains an archive of listserv discussions on various issues related to the teaching of basic writing skills.

This site discusses tecniques for writing an essay exam, key words that indicate modes to use, techniques for developing a thesis, and transitional words and organizational patterns for the essay.

This site outlines a five stage approach to essay writing graphically displayed.

This site lists more than 3,000 words that are commonly confused by students and others. Users can enter a word to find its meaning and words commonly confused with that word. The search box also supports use of the question mark (?) or asterisk (*) in a search, so that m?n finds any three letter word where m and n are the first and last letters respectively, and m*n finds a word of any length where m and n are the first and last letters respectively. Nor is the site limited to homonyms. For instance, the word "man" is differentiated from the words "male" and "masculine" with usage examples for each word.

This site is a collection of links to a variety of resources for writers, particularly the professional writer.

Geared primarily toward the professional writer, this is a list of writing resources compiled by Writer's Digest in 2006.

"Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl's punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast." (qtd. from "About Grammar Girl" on web site)

DOC Cop is a plagiarism detection tool that creates reports displaying the correlation and matches between documents or a document and the web. DOC Cop does not take ownership or copyright of your material. It does not retain your material beyond the time it takes to generate your report. DOC Cop is lightning fast, capable of processing one million words or a thousand thousand-word documents within 20 minutes. DOC Cop gathers the evidence, and provides the information required for you to judge whether or not plagiarism has occurred. (quoted from site)

This site is part of the NCTE Read, Write, Think teaching resources. The material is designed as three fifty minute lessons. The following description is taken from the web site:

This lesson helps students understand copyright, fair use, and plagiarism by focusing on why students should avoid plagiarism and exploring strategies that respect copyright and fair use. The lesson includes three parts: part one focuses on plagiarism; part two introduces copyright and fair use; and part three helps students with their paraphrasing skills. The lesson can be expanded to include bibliography writing if desired.

This site is part of the NCTE Read, Write, Think teaching resources. The material is designed as five fifty minute lessons. The following description is taken from the web site:

This lesson gives students the tools they need to consider use and ownership of copyrighted materials. Students encounter information and tools to find works in the public domain, identify and contact copyright holders, cite resources, and protect their own works from copyright infringement. This lesson can be used in conjunction with any student project to address copyright.

The English Club is designed for students and teachers and offers a variety of resources. The site describes the following activities that students and teachers can do:

• study English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
• play ESL games and do ESL quizzes online
• discuss anything with other students and teachers around the world
• find English schools worldwide where you can learn ESL at home or abroad
• find pen pals to email in English
• find ESL learning aids to improve your English
• test your level in English
• get help on English grammar and other issues

Links to several collections of tutorials, including student tutorials from RODP have been made available.

A variety of resources on Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Word 2007 have been made available.

This site is hosted by USInfo.state.gov of the U.S. State Department. The content is written by Kathryn VanSpanckeren, professor of English at the University of Tampa. The site consists of short chapters on literature through U.S. history from colonial days to the present. The site includes links to a variety of other web sites on American literature.

THIS WEB SITE, prepared for the instruction and use of Dartmouth undergraduate students, has two purposes. First, it provides a rationale for why, and offers principles for determining when and how, you should cite sources. As such, Sources can be a convenient handbook for you to consult while preparing scholarly work for your classes. Second, it presents a code of scholarly ethics, derived from Dartmouth's Academic Honor Principle, concerning plagiarism. The academic community at Dartmouth and elsewhere considers citational omission to be a dishonest presentation of work, a theft of intellectual property for which someone else deserves credit. The practices of acknowledgment outlined in Sources help to preserve both the integrity and vitality of our scholarly enterprise. (qtd. from "Preface," par. 1)

This site has tutorials for Microsoft Office, Outlook, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Desire2Learn, Windows, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and other programs.

This site has tutorials for Microsoft Office programs.

Although designed for K-12 students, this site has a variety of study tips and learning strategies for students.

Internet 4 Classrooms provides a list of keyboard shortcuts for using Microsoft Word.

If you have trouble opening PDF files because you have an older computer or a dialup connection, try using Cool PDF reader which can load PDFs faster.

This site has more than 7,000 exercises to help students with grammar andediting. The site can also create individualized study plans for students and provide tutorials. To take full advantages of the resources will require free registration. Some resources are keyed to specific Bedford St. Martin's texts.

This site is divided into three categories: Writing and Rhetoric, Research Resources and Citing Sources, and Grammar and Style Exercises and Diagnostics. Some of the topics included are Writing Exercises, Preparing Presentation Slides, Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial, Evaluating Online Sources Tutorial, and 20 Most Common Errors. Some of the resources may require free registration. Some may be specific to a Bedford St. Martin's text. The site also has links to Instructor resources.

This site contains flash animation lessons on Comprehending Business Problems, Finding Faulty Logic, Parts of a Newspaper, Reading Charts and Graphs, Reading Maps, Reading Fine Print, Scanning for Specifics, Strategies for Better Reading, the Structure of a News Story, Summarizing, and Using Context Clues.

This site contains flash animation lessons on Contract Language, Dictionary Entries, Finding New Ways to Say Something, a Personal Dictionary, Prefixes, Roots and Their Families, Suffixes, Understanding Business Jargon, Compound Words, and Words with Multiple Meanings.

Two flash animations with interactive questions related to grammar and punctuation and editing and proofreading.

Links have been added to several online citation creation tools. Students, however, are warned that, while these tools can help students format their citations, none of these tools are foolproof. Students should always check the results against the current handbook.

"The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies." However, Chattanooga State students may find the site useful as a review site for some of their courses.

The following is quoted from the sites About Us and FAQ pages: "Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world." "Most of the speeches at Gifts of Speech have never been published in any paper-based format. Gifts of Speech acquired most of these speeches directly from the woman who gave the speech. Therefore, most of the material presented here on Gifts of Speech will not be found in any speech index." "Speeches are collected primarily by writing letters to individual women all over the world." Speeches are also collected by "the frequent mining of U.S. Government documents," "through volunteers. . . . [who] have contacted Gifts of Speech over the years to donate speeches," and from "deceased orators of the 1800's . . . in response to frequent requests by secondary school teachers. These speeches were copied from published sources."

"This free, searchable database provides definitions for 500,000 acronyms and abbreviations. Users can search by acronym, abbreviation, or words contained in a meaning. The site also lets visitors sort and filter results based on several major categories, including organizations and schools." THE Newsletter. 2 Aug. 2006. Technological Horizons in Education. <http://www.thejournal.com/the/newsletters/thenewsletter/>.

Three flash tutorials on WebCT have been added. These conver using WebCT's e-mail, quiz tool, and calendar. The files were created by Ray Bertani.

iTunes is a free program for downloading mp3 files. Some teachers are podcasting mp3 files for their students.

Two websites, LearnOpenOffice.org and Tutorials for OpenOffice, have been added to the tutorial links. Learn OpenOffice.org has HTML based and Flash animation tutorials. Tutorials for OpenOffice have PDF tutorials and zipped OpenOfficeWriter files that can be downloaded.

the Free Serif Software site lists all of the free Serif Software. Click on the image of the software you wish to see a tutorial on. This will take you to a page listing installation tips, tutorials, FAQs, downloads, and information about upgrading to the newer non-free versions.

Serif is offering several earlier versions of its software free for downloads. Included are a web design program, a page design program (for brochures, newsletters, and so on), a photo editing program, a 3D image program, and a drawing program. Templates for PagePlus and PhotoPlus can be downloaded from the web site. The site also has tutorials.

This program, free for home use, will filter spam before it is downloaded to Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla, and several other e-mail programs. Spam Experts sorts incoming mail into three folders: spam, not spam, and unsure. Simply drag misplaced messages to the correct folder. Once the e-mails have been reviewed, open your e-mail program (for instance, Outlook), and the messages are downloaded. The program quickly learns how to sort the messages.

"The Mythic Imagination Institute creates experiences of the mystery and metaphor in myth and story through art, hands-on activity and cross-disciplinary conversation." "Together we discover, experience and discuss, narrative, metaphor and myth as a language of understanding each other and our own place and meaning in the world."

Five new PowerPoint resources added. Three older resources which are no longer available were deleted. The new sources include several tutorials, both HTML and Flash (viewlets), and PowerPoint backgrounds, templates, and assorted graphics.

The author of the site writes "Text Etc deals with the craft and theory of poetry: composition, analysis and improvement of literary work, including translation and the creation of good copies of well-known poems.
"Essentially, the site is a writer's workbook — notes, references, arguments that need thinking about.
[T]hese pages . . . do not form a teaching course, or source of literary authority, or any 'how it's done' demonstrations." The goal is a simple and straightforward study of issues and problems related to the study and writing of poetry.

Real Alternative can be used instead of RealOne Player. The advantage is that the program is smaller and does not include advertising.

"The BullZip PDF Printer [freeware] works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application." With this program, any file can be converted to PDF. Students can use this program to convert their files to PDF. Be sure to read the complete download and installation instructions because two programs have to be installed in order for the PDF printer to work.

"Features

• Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
• Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for destination.
• Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the resulting PDF document.
• Control output and prompts programatically.
• Setup can run unattented."

This site features a new poem every day. The text of the poem is given, plus a Real Audio reading by Garrison Keillor, and a short biography on the poet. The site contains archives for poems featured on the site over the last ten years.

"Historic recordings of poets such as Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, Betjeman and Sassoon are being made available through a new online initiative.

"The Poetry Archive also aims to ensure current leading English-speaking poets are recorded reading their own work for future generations.

"The free archive has been created by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and recording producer Richard Carrington."

"Classic Poets' Voices Go Online." BBCNews. 30 Nov. 2005. 5 Dec. 2005 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/4482824.stm>.

This site features full text stories from Africa, Central Asia, Central Europe, China, England, India, Ireland, Japan, the Middle East, Native America, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, and Siberia.

"This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."

This site by Robert F. Smith provides annotated bibliographies to works for grades K-6. Books are categorized by culture (African Americans, Chinese Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, and Korean Americans) and genre (realistic, information (non-fiction), traditional, biography, historical, poetry, and fantasy).

This tutorial by Pandia explains how to effectively search the Internet. It discusses the various types of search tools available, Boolean operators, and other search parameters. The Pandia site also offers quick links to a variety of search engines sorted by type of search tool and by media to be located and Q-cards that sum up the features and search parameters for several search engines, including Google.

"Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. It uses hypertext structure to create a web of links and text frames that you can navigate quickly and easily by clicking your desired choice.

"Paradigm is intended to be useful for all writers, from inexperienced to advanced. To get the most from the website, take time to explore its components. Choose a topic that interests you, read the discussion, do an activity, move to another topic. Sense how the topics relate to your own needs and interests. Some writers, for instance, will want to practice Editing, while others will be more interested in Discovering ideas."

Dr. Peggy Strickland of Gainesville State College, Georgia, has created a series of PowerPoints on reading topics: Vocabulary in Context, Pronoun Reference, Restatement, Test Taking Hints, Main Idea/Supporting Details, Annotation/Summary, Patterns of Organization, Inference, Figurative Language, Fact and Opinion, Purpose and Tone, Graphics.

This page from MSCTC's OWL shows several examples of how to create parenthetical citations following MLA.

MSCTC provides a traditional approach to grammar while emphasizing the need to study grammar in the context of writing. The site includes resources on the following topics: 8 Parts of Speech, Adjectives, Adverbs, Antecedents, Articles, Clauses, Conjunctions , Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions , Dangling Modifiers, Direct Objects, Fragments, Fused Sentences, Gerunds, Interjections , Lie vs. Lay, Modifiers, Nouns , Collective Nouns, Common Nouns, Proper Nouns , Parallelism, Phrases, Prepositions , Prepositional Phrases , Pronouns , Pronoun Antecedents , Comma Splices, Subjects, Verbs, and Who vs. Whom.

OpenOffice is a free suite of programs similar to Microsoft Office and Corel Suite. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet program, multimedia presentation software, drawing program, and database program. A donation is requested but not required for use of the program. The word processor can open and save MSWord files.

"ESLgold provides hundreds of pages of free English teaching and learning materials for both students and teachers. All resources are organized by skill and level for quick and easy access." (The site has advertising popups).

Houghton Mifflin has available over 700 self-grading exercises in Punctuation and Mechanics, Parts of Speech, Spelling, Sentences and Sentence Problems, and Style.

"Poetry Portal is a directory of worldwide poetry online, a simple-to-use and detailed overview of the fascinating variety of literary productions on the Internet."

Google Guide is an extensive online tutorial covering many of the features of the Google search engine. Nancy Blachman, author of the site, has written several reference and tutorial books, and gives free seminars on Google.

This page has been added to the Reading & Writing Center web site and offers a variety of resources related to professional, business, and technical writing as well as writing guidelines to specific types of documents such as resumes.

This website has been created by Linda and Francis McGovern, who met while studying English at Suffolk, University, Boston. Articles are submitted by interested individuals and reviewed by the McGoverns. In their writers guidelines they advise writers regarding article submissions that

Subject matter can be anything artistic or creative. Each one of our articles in some way, is about someone who creates. Some of our articles are subjective first person travel pieces. Some take a meditative slant on a visit somewhere, and reflect on a theme. Others are objective articles about places or writers, or artists.

"The site has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal."

"Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty. Users may incorporate any pages needed into their classes, institutional resources, or publications provided that they either reproduce pages in their entirety or make a full citation if only a portion of a page is used." The site has straightforward information on writing process and includes a topic index and search engine.

"The College Student Network was created to help college students overcome the myriad obstacles we face in pursuit of a higher education. [The designers] hope CSN becomes the dominant tool for research, problem solving, collaboration, and networking for college students across the world." The site contains its own academic search engine as well as resources on academic subjects, student life, and career planning.

Gallaudet University's online English center, English Works! includes resources for literature, writing, ESL, grammar, and vocabular, and contains interactive exercises.

This site created by Michael Harvey at Washington College and sponsored by Hackett Publishing has numerous resources on writing including resources on mechanics and style, writing process, essay structure, providing evidence, research, and various documentation styles.

This university writing center has a number of resources that can readily be printed out as handouts to students or to which students can refer.

This site is part of the Brigham Young University Writing Center web site. It lists several useful handouts on writing, focusing on writing process and techniques, grammar and punctuation, research, literary theory and analysis, and writing in specific contexts.

Created by Aaron Atsma, this site contains a variety of resources related to Greek mythology.

AbiWord is a free word processing similar to Microsoft Word^©. Students who do not have a word processor on their home computers and cannot afford the student versions of MSOffice^© or WordPerfect^©, especially if they have been using WordPad as their word processor, might consider AbiWord as an alternative.

This is a series of viewlets created by Brad Sealy from the English Dept. at Columbia Basin College that covers the basics of using WebCT. The Tutorial has links to basic tasks including logging in (specific to Columbia Basin), navigation, using discussions, e-mail, and the calendar, and taking quizzes. The Help Topics page includes links to using the assignment tool, advanced features in mail and discussions, more on quizzes and using the equation editor.

This tutorial, developed by Donny Smith, Dave Kaunelis, and other members of the Tutorial Task Force at Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University, helps students evaluate websites by considering five aspects: Responsibility, Authority, Purpose, Documentation, and Updates. The tutorial includes simple quiz questions after each section.

While this program is actually geared to taking notes for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, it offers some excellent tips on becoming better notetakers in general. The site does require the user to register and provide a username and password.

Tennessee Technological University (TTU) has a website that details all courses for each semester at Chattanooga State. The website address is: http://www.tntech.edu/ISEE/offcampus.htm. Click on the semester for the Off Campus Offerings and scroll down until you see Chattanooga State. This gives the name of the courses, the time, date, instructor, and room number. If students need to speak with their instructor, they must contact the department at TTU.

Includes tutorials for the Chattanooga State library catalog, Biography Resource Center, Expanded Academic ASAP, Health & Wellness Resource Center, InfoTrac OneFile, Literature Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, and EbscoHost. have been added to the Research page. Some of these are by Sandra Williford, the others by the publishers.

This site designed by Maryland Public Television explore's Poe's works, includes lesson plans created by Maryland teachers, links to primary source documents, links to further resources, and a variety of activities related to the study of Poe. The site is designed primarily for K-12 students.

This site has a variety of articles related to effective communication, including the effective use of presentation software such as PowerPoint. The site is created and maintained by ProjectorSolution.com, a company which sells AV equipment.

"Website Estates is a leading online community for marketing and communications professionals seeking insight, resources and guidance on topics including presentations, sales and marketing and ebusiness. In addition, we provide many of these same resources to students and educators." "The [Web Estates free] library contains a variety of designs and themes and is updated frequently."

internet4classrooms offers online tutorials for both the Macintosh and the PC and the following software applications: Claris Home Page; Dreamweaver; HyperStudio; Inspiration; Internet Explorer; Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Works; Netscape; and WebQuest. While this site is aimed primarily at K-12 instructors, the tutorials are excellent and move from basic techniques through more advanced techniques with samples and links to additional online resources.

This is a comprehensive alphabetical directory listing of sites related to literature. The listing is under constant revision, but I have been unable to determine who CBEL is or who identifies the sites listed in the directory.

This is a comprehensive directory listing of 450 sites related to mythology. The listing is under constant revision, but I have been unable to determine who CBEL is or who identifies the sites listed in the directory.

Established in 1988 as part of the University of Southern Denmark, the Center provides research and information on Andersen as well as texts of individual works.

Taken from University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Anthropology 100: Varieties of World Culture, by Tony Galt, this is Galt's Lecture 23, a page which explains rites of passage based on the ideas of Arnold Van Gennep.

Taken from Michael Webster's Classics 201 course at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI, this page compares Campbell's The Hero's Journey and Arnold Van Gennep on initiation rituals with Vladimir Propp's 31 folktale functions

from Folklore Connections by Mary Magoulick, this page briefly explains the hero patterns of Levi-Strauss, Clyde Kluckhohn, Johann Georg von Hahn, Jan De Vries, Lord Raglan, and Joseph Campbell.

"Writing-World.com currently offers more than 600 articles and columns on a wide range of writing topics." Topics range from freelancing, publishing and finding an editor to writing for various genres and age groups. The site has book reviews of writing books and links to classes and contests.

This is the official web site for New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshops. While much of the site focuses on events in NYC, there are online materials and resources available.

This web page is part of the site below, How to Write an Essay: Tips on writing that all-important A-grade college essay, but was strong enough on its own merits that it has been included on the Writing page under a new category titled "Techniques." The web page focuses on writing concisely.

This site was created by Ted Neilson, retired study skills advisor. The site contains "[s]tep-by-step help on researching and writing essays from understanding the topic and essay question to editing [the] final draft."

This site requires users to register. However, there is no cost associated with using the site. "Internet Detective is an interactive, online tutorial which provides an introduction to the issues of information quality on the Internet and teaches the skills required to evaluate critically the quality of an Internet resource." "Internet Detective has been developed to benefit the academic research community in the European Union. It may be freely used for non-commercial academic and research purposes."

A web site developed by the Michigan State University Writing Center, the Research Station provides information on finding, evaluating, and documenting Internet resources. The site has easy to follow instructions and includes a variety of exercises.

UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops: This site explains in detail how to evaluate web sources by examining the web address and exploring the hosting site to determine who wrote the material and who is publishing it. The tutorial guides students through specific questions and techniques for determining the reliability of a site.

Shepphard Software. This site contains a variety of games designed to improve student vocabulary. Many of the words are taken from SAT/GRE vocabulary lists. There are also games for vocabulary specific to computer technology and medicine.

Vocabulary University's "educational content features include grade level interactive word puzzles that help expand one's vocabulary (starting with High Elementary - 4th grade - through College Prep). [The site also contains] other Rooty*Hoot*Hoot® brand puzzles using Latin & Greek roots, synonyms, antonyms and analogies."

by Voyager Info Systems. "VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice."

"Dramatica is both a series of software products for writers and a relatively unique perspective of how stories work. This site is the home of hundreds of pages of materials and tools for anyone interested in creating, critiquing, analyzing, writing, or otherwise working with stories."

"The Modern Word is a large network of literary sites dedicated to exploring twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of traditional narrative and structure. This includes many writers associated with Modernism, surrealism, "magical realism," and postmodernism. Our mandate includes both writers who have experimented with prose styles and narrative conventions, such as Joyce, Burroughs, or Pynchon, and those who use literary techniques to frame alternate ways of perceiving reality, such as Borges and Philip K. Dick."

"This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language. This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship."

This is the course page for Fairy Tales, taught by A. Waller Hastings, Professor of English at Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Fairy Tales provides notes on specific fairy tales, on the history and interpretation of fairy tales in general, and includes an annotated bibliography of fairy tales.

The Study Guides and Strategies web site (http://www.studygs.net) is authored, maintained, and revised on an on-going basis by Joe Landsberger, webmaster at the University of St. Thomas, as an educational public service. The site includes resources under the following categories: Preparing, Learning, Studying, Classroom Participation, Learning with Others, Project Management, Reading Skills, Preparing for Tests, Taking Tests, Writing Basics, Writing Types, Webtruth, Math, and Science and Technology.

Created by Jacob Richman, this site teaches vocabulary through a variety of games: WordSearch, Crosswords, Hangman, Quiz, and the Match Game. The vocabulary ranges from very basic vocabular for children in elementary grades through some more advanced levels particularly in the Crossword game.

PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania.

"PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. We intend to provide as much documentation about in/blockquoteidual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time." Recordings are currently available in MP3 and RealPlayer formats.

Chattanooga State has recently contracted with SMARTHINKING to provide a variety of online tutoring services. For more information, view this SMARTHINKING flyer.