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Writing

The Grammarly Handbook

http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/
UNC Writing Center
writing help from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/
Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Capital Community College
Principles of Composition

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm
University of Richmond Writing Center

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html
Norton/Write
WW Norton's writing resource center

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/writesite/
Rules for Writing from the New York Times

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/writing-rules-advice-from-the-new-york-times-on-writing-well/#more-117078
Mary Norris's YouTube channel
Mary Norris--copy editor for The New Yorker--on language in all its facets

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo1TdazaYsoryZnM39HXDB4I9wHBGevy9

Sentence Combining

Introduction to Sentence Combining
Just the basics.

http://grammar.about.com/od/tests/a/introsc.htm
Sentence Combining
An excellent resource for the student motivated to learn more than the basics

http://jonsenglishsite.info/Sentenccombnew.htm

Writing about Literature

Writing about Literature
WW Norton's guide to writing about literature

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/writing/welcome.aspx

Writing an Essay

Some General Advice on Academic Essay-Writing
from the University of Toronto

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/general/general-advice
Essay Writing
from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/1/
Strategies for Essay Writing
from the Harvard College Writing Center

https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/strategies-essay-writing

Using Quotations

Integrating Quotations ~ Guidelines and MLA Style

http://elc.uark.edu/qwc/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07-Integrating-Quotations.pdf
Integrating Quotations from a Literary Text into a Literary Analysis Paper

https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Integrating_Quotes.pdf
Using Quotations

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/quotations
Effectively Incorporating Quotations

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/introquo.html
Quotation, Citation, and Documentation

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/writing/E1a-rules-to-follow.aspx

Rhetoric

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/
What Aristotle and Joshua Bell can teach us about persuasion
Imagine you are one of the world's greatest violin players, and you decide to conduct an experiment: play inside a subway statio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2dEuMFR8kw&feature
Daniel H. Cohen: For argument’s sake
Why do we argue? To out-reason our opponents, prove them wrong, and, most of all, to win! ... Right? Philosopher Daniel H. Cohen

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_h_cohen_for_argument_s_sake
Teach Argument videos
videos that analyze the rhetoric of popular songs and Super Bowl commercials.

http://teachargument.com/category/video/
ArgueLab videos
short videos that present various rhetorical situations and considerations

http://www.arguelab.com/video/

Critical Thinking

Your Logical Fallacy Is...
"This website has been designed to help you identify and call out dodgy logic wherever it may raise its ugly, incoherent head."

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
You Are Not So Smart
A blog that explores self-delusion, how flawed perception and reasoning go unnoticed.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/
Analyzing Trump: 15 Logical Fallacies in 3 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2CxDu7jiyE
AP English: Crash Course in Logical Fallacies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbDT9sk01g
Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies

http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/toc.htm
The Fallacy Files
a collection of fallacies and fallacious arguments

http://fallacyfiles.org/

Grammar

Grammarly's Handbook: Grammar

http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/grammar/
The 20 Most Common Writing Errors

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/20errors/
Common Errors in English

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Capital Community College
CCC's guide to grammar and writing

http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/index.htm
Grammar Bytes!
"Grammar instruction with attitude"

http://www.chompchomp.com/
YourDictionary.com
YourDictionary.com's guide to English Grammar Rules & Usage

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/

Parts of Speech

University of Ottawa
overview

http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar/the-parts-of-speech
Capital Community College
overview

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/definitions.htm#parts
Purdue University (OWL)
overview

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/730/01/

Adjective

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adjectve.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

Adverb

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/adverbs.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm

Conjunction

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/conjunct.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Interjection

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/interjct.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/interjections.htm

Noun

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm

Preposition

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/preposit.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm

Pronoun

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/pronouns.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm

Verb

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/verbs.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm
Capital Community College
active and passive voice

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/passive.htm

Parts of the Sentence

University of Ottawa

http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar/the-parts-of-the-sentence

Punctuation

Grammarly's Handbook: Punctuation

http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/
University of Ottawa

http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar/punctuation
National Punctuation Day
A great source of information on the use of all punctuation marks

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

Comma

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

Colon

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/colon.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm

Semicolon

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/semicoln.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/semicolon.htm

Quotation Marks

University of Ottawa

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/qmarks.html
Capital Community College

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm

Active vs. Passive Voice

The Active and Passive Voice Explained
This video is a very good introduction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_YddWkps-A
Grammar Girl on Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
You can listen to this article while your read it.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx
Active and Passive Voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPQpgkNJb0

Dangling Participles

What is a dangling participle?
Grammar Girl explains.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/dangling-participles
Excuse Me! Your participle is dangling.
Mary Norris--copy editor for The New Yorker--explains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDrsHgl-OGw&t=0s&list=PLo1TdazaYsoryZnM39HXDB4I9wHBGevy9&index=14

Literature

Literary Terms

Literary Devices

http://literarydevices.net/
Glossary of Literary Terms (WW Norton)

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/glossary/A.aspx
Glossary of Poetic Terms (Poetry Foundation)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms
Onomatopoeialist
"the biggest list of onomatopoeias online"--plus idioms, aphorisms, euphemisms, and more!

http://www.onomatopoeialist.com/

Folk Literature

Greek vs Roman deities
The (major) Greek deities and their Roman counterparts

http://www.pantheon.org/miscellaneous/greek_vs_roman.html
Encyclopedia Mythica
An award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion

http://www.pantheon.org/
Theoi Greek Mythology
Exploring mythology in classical literature and art

http://www.theoi.com/
Aesop's Fables

http://www.aesopfables.com/
Sur La Lune Fairy Tales
49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illust

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/index.html
Brothers Grimm: Fairy Tales

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories

http://hca.gilead.org.il/
The Legend of William Tell

http://www.tell.ch/schweiz/william-tell.htm
The Legend of John Henry

http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/
American Folklore
Retellings of folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, weatherlore, and ghost stories from all over the Americas

http://www.americanfolklore.net/
Tall Tales

http://42explore.com/talltale.htm

Antigone

Antigone @ Shmoop
Shmoop's guide to Antigone

http://www.shmoop.com/antigone-sophocles/
Antigone (Web English Teacher)
a collection of Antigone-related websites

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/sophocles.html#Antigone

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University)

http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/menu.htm
The Murder of Emmett Till

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/index.html
The "Scottsboro Boys" Trials

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
To Kill a Mockingbird @ Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Poetry

Poetry Foundation

http://poetryfoundation.org/
Poets.org

http://poets.org/
Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Project

http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Poetry 180

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
American Life In Poetry

http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/
Favorite Poem Project

http://www.favoritepoem.org/
Internet Archive: Audio Poetry

http://www.archive.org/details/audio_poetry
Poetry (Library of Congress)

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/
The EServer Poetry Collection

http://poetry.eserver.org/

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Spark Notes - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/juliuscaesar/
enotes - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Contains embedded glossary and reader's notes, in addition to a modern translation which appears to the right of the text.

http://www.enotes.com/julius-caesar-text
UNRV History
lots of information about Roman history

http://www.unrv.com/sitemap.html
Livius.org
lots of information about Julius Caesar

http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar00.html
Julius Caesar @ Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com/julius-caesar/

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies game
The aim of this game is to introduce some basic analytical aspects of the book and to challenge the reader's memory through play

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/literature/golding/
Lord of the Flies @ Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com/lord-of-the-flies/

Fences

August Wilson's 'Fences' Revival Earns Praise

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127015750
Viola Davis on 'Fences'

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/04/26/theater/1247467708862/viola-davis-on-fences.html
It’s No More Mr. Nice Guy for This Everyman

http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/theater/reviews/27fences.html
Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90374807
Why August Wilson Was No Tyler Perry

http://www.theroot.com/views/why-august-wilson-was-no-tyler-perry
Fences @ Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com/fences-august-wilson/resources.html

The Kite Runner

A Raisin in the Sun

The Great Gatsby

A Reader's Guide
produced by The National Endowment for the Arts

http://www.neabigread.org/books/greatgatsby/readers02.php
The Great Gatsby @ Shmoop

http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/
The Great Gatsby (ebook for free!)

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/
The Jazz Age
Internet resources gathered by Cornell University

http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/jazz_age.htm
A guide to the fashion and music of the 1920s

http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/1920s-fashion.html
A guide to makeup in the 1920s

http://return2style.de/swingstyle/makeup/20amimup.html

In the Time of the Butterflies

Study and Reading Skills

How to Study
More than 80 free, practical study skills articles

http://www.how-to-study.com/
Study Guides and Strategies
A public service helping learners to succeed since 1996.

http://www.studygs.net/

Research

Citing Information
a series of self-paced instructional modules designed to introduce you to citing information in a number of citation styles.

http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/
Picking Your Topic IS Research!
courtesy of NC State University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0B3Gjlu-1o

Miscellany

PODIUM

http://www.thepodiumfoundation.org/
The Writer's Almanac

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
StoryCorps

http://www.storycorps.net/
This I Believe

http://www.thisibelieve.org/
TED: Ideas worth spreading

http://www.ted.com/

Vocabulary

The vocabulary page on Words' Worth, Mr. Simone's website
“Studying” vocabulary can mean many different things; here are a few resources you can use.

http://mistersimone.edublogs.org/vocabulary/
Visual Thesaurus
You’ll need this login (students@richmond.k12.va.us) and this password (richmond).

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Learn That Word - prefixes and word roots

http://www.learnthat.org/vocabulary/pages/view/roots.html
Learn That Word - suffixes

http://www.learnthat.org/vocabulary/pages/view/suffix.html
A Word A Day

http://wordsmith.org/awad/
Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

http://www.etymonline.com/
Knoword
A game of quick thinking, smart decisions and great words

http://www.knoword.org/home.php
Wordnik
"Connecting people with meaning."

http://www.wordnik.com/
Merriam-Webster's Trend Watch
An ongoing discussion of interesting words that appear in current news items.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/trend-watch/
Vocabulary.com
"The easiest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary."

http://www.vocabulary.com/
More Words
This is not a dictionary, it's a word game wordfinder.

http://www.morewords.com/
Merriam-Webster's Video
a collection of short, clearly-written videos on a wide variety of vocabulary

http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/index.htm?&t=1337261047

Words of the Day

A Word A Day

http://wordsmith.org/awad/
Word-of-the-Day from Merriam-Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/
Word-of-the-Day from the Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.oed.com/
Word-of-the-Day from The New York Times

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/word-of-the-day/

Idioms

The Phrase Finder
an excellent place to research the meaning and origin of idioms

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.html
English Idiom's and Proverbs

http://oels.byu.edu/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms

http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/
English Club
information on idioms and idiomatic expressions in English

http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Idioms/index.htm
Vocabulary and Idioms
a blog that uses content from the Voice of America website

http://vocabularyandidioms.blogspot.com/
Words and Their Stories @ The Voice of America
a weekly show about American idioms and expressions; download free texts, MP3s and PDFs.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/archive/learningenglish-programs-radio-words-stories/20121113/977/987.html
The Teacher @ the BBC
tons of multimedia content about idioms

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/index.shtml
The Idiom Connection

http://www.idiomconnection.com/
30 Common English Idioms

http://testprep.about.com/od/englishlanguagetests/a/English_Idioms.htm
English Idioms
a bunch of links to idiom-related websites

http://www.rong-chang.com/idioms.htm