Literature and Writing Web Resources

This list was compiled and annotated by Cathy Eaton and Kristina Lucas, English Professors at NHTI, Concord's Community College. Please send good literature and writing sites with title, brief explanation, and web address to ceaton@ccsnh.edu. Please contact us if web address links are inactive. (August, 2004)

Literature
Read original texts. Explore literature, genres, author information, and critical commentary.

Writing
C’mon in. Wondering how to choose a topic, write or polish your essay? Wondering how to avoid plagiarism and to find credible references? Following are sites to help you write your best paper.


Literature

American Literature

Academic Info - American Literature Gateway
Directory of Online American Literature Resources:
American Authors, American Poetry,
Digital Publications, and Periods of American Literature
http://www.academicinfo.us/amlit.html

American Authors on the Web
100 General Resources of American Literature, Genres, Poetry, Movements
791 American authors listed by decades (1590 to 1950) with many live links
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html#Authors

Author Resources (American Short Story Writers on NHTI website)
Students in Professor Cathy Eaton's literature classes created this resource to help students & faculty access Farnum Library resources and Internet sites that give information about authors: biographies, original writings, criticism, timelines etc.
http://www.nhti.edu/library/authorresources/index.htm

Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events, 1620-1920
Short chronology of events in American history and literature. 
American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Essay topics range from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. Selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, Yiddish and Creole writers
http://www.bartleby.com/225/index.html

Contemporary Authors
Data base provided by NHTI library (limited number of users and subscribers). Provides biographical and bibliographical information 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Username and Password available through NHTI library. Username: Conc90075; Password: Conc90075
http://www.http://www.galenet.com/index.html

Hawthorne in Salem Website
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Complete collection of all his writings, extensive criticism, biographical information, timelines, maps of Salem, images, photographs, and architecture. Professor Cathy Eaton helped create this website.
http://hawthorneinsalem.org/

Heath Anthology of American Literature Web Site
Electronic resources for Heath Anthology. Primary and secondary materials: i.e. Life at the Turn of the Century; Slavery and Abolition; Women in Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/reader_tc.html

The Heath Anthology as Technology
How American literature is enhanced and transformed with the use of electronic tools and technology resources.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

Heath Guide to American Literature Volume II Web Sites
Online American Literature Resources. Late Nineteenth Century: 1865-1910, Modern Period: 1901-1945, and Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/lit_links2.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project by Paul B. Reuben
Literary movements in American literature i.e. Early American Lit to 1700, Early American Lit 1700-1800, 19th C Romanticism, 19th C Transcendentalism, Late 19th C Realism, Late 19th C Naturalism, Early 20th C Modernism, American Drama, The Harlem Renaissance, and Late 20th C
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm

Questia: The world’s largest online library
Subscribing

Useful for finding original sources for research: literature, literary criticism, theatre history as well as background information on politics, history, and context. Information from books, magazines, published and unpublished papers. Need to subscribe if you want complete information.
http://www.questia.com


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Native American Literature

Native American Authors: Index by Author
Native North American authors (primarily contemporary) with bibliographies, biographies, and links to online sources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/authors#E

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
This website chronicles alphabetically Native American story tellers, essayists, poets, etc with biographical links, literature published available online, and links to published work. Also Story Telling information.
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/alfa.html


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Poetry

American Poems
Short (or a bit longer) biography of the poet, including links to their poems, some of which have user comments and analysis http://www.americanpoems.com/poets

American Verse Project
The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Academy of American Poets
There are more than 400 essays and interviews on Poets.org, and many of them deal with the writing process. Read prose pieces that discuss poetic techniques, interviews about the writing life, and browse our glossaries of poetic terms and concepts. http://poets.org/page.php/prmID/55

Artist Biographies Voices from the Gaps
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/

Bartleby
Website for searching for poets, first lines, and titles of poems http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

Jack Kerouac's Blue Neon Alley
The Gateway to the Beat Generation on the World Wide Web. "A source for the best 'Beat' sites on the web, with references and resources about writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and others." http://www.neonalley.org/

Blue Flower Arts by Alison Granucci
Represents many of the most distinguished and acclaimed poets, writers, and speakers of our time for readings, lectures, conferences, and special events at colleges, universities, theaters, and festivals http://www.blueflowerarts.com/index.html

Famous Poets and Poems
A collection of poems and biographies from over 627 poets http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets.html

Favorite Poem Project
The collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky invited Americans to submit their favorite poem. http://www.favoritepoem.org/theproject/index.html

Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms By Jack Lynch, Rutgers University
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/

Glossary of Poetry Terms
http://poetryexpress.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=60#scan

Internet Poetry Archive [7 poets read a selection of their own poetry; panels discusses each poet]
Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, and Richard Wilbur. http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/

JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary http://www.jstor.org/

LitFinder (poetry)
Full texts of 168,000 poems and biographical information on poets. This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k http://www.litfinder.com/login.asp

Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
Scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry. Excellent criticism on the best poets of our time. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry
(Oxford University Press, 2000)
Edited by Cary Nelson
There are 161 poet companion sites with critical analysis of poems (poems not included) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

Open Directory: Poetry
Biographies, Critical Analysis, and Links http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Poets/

Poetry Archieves at emule.com
Database is searchable by first-line, author and poem title http://www.emule.com/poetry/

The Poem Tree: An Anthology of Metered Poetry
Poems and Essays about Metered Poetry http://www.poemtree.com/

A Poem a Day for American High Schools
A new poem posted everyday with brief introduction by poet http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

Poem Hunter
Our database contains 168,207 poems from 16,474 poets.. 126,006 Songs.. 10,148 Artists.. 64,870 Quotations.. http://www.poemhunter.com/

The Poem Tree: An Anthology of Metered Poetry
Poems and Essays about Metered Poetry http://www.poemtree.com/

Poetry 180
Billy Collins, former poet laureate, selected 180 poems to be read out loud. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/

Poetry and War
In the 20th century, the horrors and irreversible changes created by modern warfare changed poetry for good.The thirty or so poems in this selection (written between 1914 and 1998) demonstrate - among many other things - this change. http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/index.html

Poetry.com.au
Large collections of original and classic poetry. Search by poem title or poet. http://www.poetry.com.au/

The Poetry Archive
The Poetry Archive is a treasure-trove of English-language poets reading their own work. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/poetsHome.do

Poetry International WebA
A worldwide forum for poetry on the internet. 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. Also biographical information and essays. http://international.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_name=poet

Poetry Magazines of the United Kingdom
Access to site to the full-text digital library of 20th and 21st century UK poetry magazines from the Poetry Library collection http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/

Poetry Online - Wired for Books
33 poets read their work or have their poetry read. Oral interviews with 13 poets. Photographs. http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

Poetry Out Loud
Poets perform their own work http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/

Poets Against War Poets
Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression. http://www.poetsagainstwar.net/poemsoftheweek.asp

Poets.org at The Academy of American Poets
Poets.org currently features biographies of more than 500 poets and numerous poems http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58

Poets' Corner: Anthology of Poems
Named after the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, this site is possibly the most comprehensive poetry anthology on the internet. It is maintained by four poetry lovers. However, it includes only poetry which has fallen into the public domain (meaning poetry published before 1923), and typos abound. http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html

Representative Poetry Online: Canadian
Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

Sonnet Central
Archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period and author. http://www.sonnets.org

Web English Teacher: General Poetry Site
Lesson plans and activities for teaching specific types of poetry or poetry in general. Sites and Activities for Specific Poets and Collections of Poetry are also available. This page features lesson plans and activities for teaching specific types of poetry or poetry in general. Sites and Activities for Specific Poets and Collections of Poetry are also available. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poetrygeneral.html


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Short Stories: Authors, Biographies, Interview, & Critical Commentaries

Artist Biographies Voices from the Gaps
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/

Classic Reader
Site offers a large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also made available. This collection of classic stories currently contains 3226 works of literature (including 1830 short stories) by 326 authors http://www.classicreader.com/

JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary http://www.jstor.org/

LitFinder
Full texts of 168,000 poems and biographical information on poets. This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k http://www.litfinder.com/login.asp

Individual Authors

Margaret Atwood
"Happy "Happy Endings" [text] http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/endings.htm
Biography: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03C18N390512635243
Critical Perspective: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03C18N390512635243
BBC Interviews: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/bbc.htm
Salon Interview: http://www.salon.com/jan97/interview970120.html
Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1997/07/visions.html?welcome=true

Ambrose Bierce http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Bierce,_Ambrose/Works/Short_Stories/

Raymond Carver
Biography http://www.whitman.edu/english/carver/biography1.html
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Carver,_Raymond/
http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/cormier.cfm
Interviews http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/carver.html

Willa Cather
Biography http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/biography.htm
Willa Cather Website: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Cather,_Willa/

Anton Chekov
Anton Chekov website: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Russian/Authors/Chekhov,_Anton_Pavlovich/Works/Short_Stories/

Kate Chopin
Biography http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedy_awl/chapter6/objectives/deluxe-content.html
Timeline of Kate Chopin's life http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wcw.html
[Texts] Short Stories & The Awakening http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/
Interviews about production of The Awakening http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/interviews.html

Robert Cormier
Biographies http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/cormier.cfm
http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=80
Interviews with Cormier: http://www.achuka.co.uk/special/cormier01.htm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/feature/5191/103-3906160-1323822

Ralph Ellison
Biography http://www.nathanielturner.com/ralphellison2.htm

Stephen Crane
Biography http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/crane_st.html
Biography & Questions on "Open Boat" http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/crane.html
Biography http://www.online-literature.com/crane/
TEXT of the wreck of the Commodore http://www.ponceinlet.org/open-boat-newspaper.pdf
The Stephen Crane Society http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/index.html
TEXTS Stephen Crane's Short Stories and Poems http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/crane/works.htm
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Crane,_Stephen/Works

Louise Erdrich
Biography and Interview http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=3B6VJqCAYy&cid=929573#bio

F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/F/Fitzgerald,_F._Scott/

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction: Critical Commentary & Biography & Photography http://hawthorneinsalem.org/
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/page/10085/
[text] "Rappachini's Daughter" http://scarlet.nscc.mass.edu/hawthorne/rapp.html
[texts] All works by Hawthorne: http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html

Ernest Hemingway
Biography http://www.lostgeneration.com/
Hemingway Resource Center http://ccsnh.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_4541_1
Letters, Critical Analysis, Reviews of his writing: http://www.kcstar.com/hemingway/

Mary Hood
Biography http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-1000
Interview http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/music/e3-on_being.html

Zora Neale Hurston
Biography http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html#person

Washington Irving
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Irving,_Washington/

Shirley Jackson
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/20th_Century/Jackson,_Shirley/

Sarah Orne Jewett
Biography http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/jewett_sa.html
Sylvia as Hero in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" by Kelley Griffith, Jr. http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/griffith.html
"Sarah Orne Jewett's Critical Theory: Notes toward a Feminine Literary Mode" http://gs.fanshawec.ca/ENGL286/whtheron.htmhttp://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/donovan2.html
"The White Heron" [text] http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/tne/heron.htm
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Jewett,_Sarah_Orne/

Jack London
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/L/London,_Jack/Works/Short_Stories/

Joyce Carol Oates
Interviews http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=883533
http://www.princetoninfo.com/oates1.html
http://princetoninfo.com/oates2.html
Joyce Carol Oates website: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/20th_Century/Oates,_Joyce_Carol/

Tim O'Brien
Biography http://www.utsa.edu/lc/commonreading/Biography.cfm

Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor website: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/O/O%27Connor,_Flannery/

O'Henry
O'Henry website: texts http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/H/Henry,_O./Works/

Cynthia Ozick
Biography http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html
Interview http://www.thirteen.org/cityarts4/week14/my_html/uncut-week14.html
Review of "The Shawl" and "Rosa" http://www.completereview.com/reviews/ozickc/shawl.htm#ours

Edgar Allan Poe
Biography: http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/bio/
[texts short stories and poems] http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/works/
Critical Commentary: http://www.poedecoder.com/
Teacher Resources: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poe.html
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Poe,_Edgar_Allan/

Katherine Porter
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/porter_ka.html

John Steinbeck
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/20th_Century/Steinbeck,_John/
John Steinbeck Country: geography of his writings http://www2.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/Biography/Steinbeck_Country.htm

James Thurber
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/T/Thurber,_James/

Mark Twain
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/19th_Century/Twain,_Mark/

John Updike
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/20th_Century/Updike,_John/

Alice Walker
Critical Commentaries on "Everyday Use" http://home.online.no/~helhoel/walker.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_34/ai_67413399
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/American/20th_Century/

William Carlos Williams
Biography http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/williams/bio.htm
Student project biography http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wcw.html
"The Use of Force" [text] http://www.fti.uab.es/sgolden/docencia/force.htm
Poetry Link for 13 William Carlos Williams' poems http://ccsnh.blackboard.com/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_4541_1
Critical Commentaries on William Carlos Williams http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Williams.htm
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/W/Williams,_William_Carlos/

Tobias Wolff
"Hunters in the Snow" [text] http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/huntsnow.html

Richard Wright
Biography and Critical Commentary http://www.stormloader.com/users/brohol/ib3/harlemlinks.htm
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard/
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/W/Wright,_Richard/


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LitFind (plays)
Complete text of 708 plays.This database is provided for NHTI students and faculty. User and password available at NHTI library. [Username: newxha78; password: newx7g9k]
http://www.litfinder.com/login.asp

Live Broadway: The League of American Theatres and Producers
Contemporary Broadway productions as well as Broadway plays and musicals currently touring the country. Background info on writers, composers, producers, directors, actors & designers. History for research purposes being added.
http://www.broadway.org

TCG: Theatre Communications web site
Excellent source for current and recent theatre facts, figures, personalities and actual play scripts (usually not published in other sources). Focus: non-profit, professional, live theatre, experimental theatre & newer works.
http://www.tcg.org


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Women In Literature: Images of Women in Literature

Artist Biographies Voices from the Gaps
VG's intent is to use new digital media to preserve and extend knowledge of art by women of color. VG focuses on the lives and works of North American minority women artists and writers, visual artists, performance artists, musicians, sonic artists, and filmmakers. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/VG/Bios/

Celebration of Women Writers
Biographies, Original Texts, Interviews, Critical Analysis
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

JSTOR
Archive of important scholarly journals. Wonderful source for critical commentary
http://www.jstor.org/

Society for the Study of American Women Writers
The Society is committed to diversity in the study of American women writers --racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual orientation, region, and era -- as well as of scholars participating in the Society
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/

19th Century American Women Writers
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/eTextLib.htm

African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/eTextLib.htm

The Online Archive of Nineteenth Century Women Writers
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/

Individual Authors

Fleur Adcock
Biography: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth161
Critical Perspective: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth161#criticalperspective

Maya Angelou
Biography: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87
Biography/Criticism: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/angelou_maya.html

Margaret Atwood
Biography: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03C18N390512635243
Critical Perspective: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03C18N390512635243
BBC Interviews: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/atwood/bbc.htm
Salon Interview: http://www.salon.com/jan97/interview970120.html
Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/1997/07/visions.html?welcome=true

Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn links: http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/
Aphra Behn Chronology: http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/chron-ab.htm
Biography and Selected Works: http://www.sappho.com/poetry/a_behn.html

Elizabeth Bishop
Biography: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/about.htm http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/
Commentary: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19637
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/fish.htm

Anne Bradstreet
Biography: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/bradbio.htm
Bibliography of Biography and Criticism: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/biblio.htm
National Public Radio interviews with poet Charlotte Gordon, author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616663
Student paper on Bradstreet with References: http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/lit/bradstre.htm

Willa Cather
Biography: http://fp.image.dk/fpemarxlind/biography.htm

Lorna Dee Cervantes
Biography & Criticism: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/cervantes_lorna_dee.html
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/cervantes_lo.html

Kate Chopin
[Texts Online] Short Stories & The Awakening http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/chopin.htm
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/chopin_ka.html
Biography: http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/kate_chopin_coutierville.aspx
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedy_awl/chapter6/objectives/deluxe-content.html
Timeline of Kate Chopin's life http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wcw.html

Sandra Cisneros
Biography: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/bio.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cisneros/career.htm
Interview: http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/Authors/Sandra_Cisneros/body_sandra_cisneros.html
Online Poems: http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/rpearce/MultiC_Web/Authors/Sandra_Cisneros/body_sandra_cisneros.html

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reviews and Biography: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/cofer_ju.html
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/corridos.html

Emily Dickenson
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/dickinson.htm
Biography http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickinson.htm
Poets writing about Emily Dickenson and her poetry (many sound clips) http://www.emilydickinson.org/responses_menu.html
Emily Dickenson's letters http://www.emilydickinson.org/wkintronew.htm
Writing by family members and critical commentaries http://www.emilydickinson.org/writings_menu.html

Annie Dillard
Biography: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/essays/dillard.htm

Louise Erdrich
Biography and Interview http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=3B6VJqCAYy&cid=929573#bio

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/gilman_ch.html
Biography: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gilman.html
Bibliography: http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/gilmancp-bibliography.html

Nikki Giovanni
Biography: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/giovanni_nikki2.html#nikkibio
Interviews: http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jul00/giovanni.htm
Black Arts Movement: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5647

Joy Harjo
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/harjocreek_jo.html
Biography & Online Works: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/joy/

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction: Biography, Critical Commentary, Images: http://hawthorneinsalem.org/
"Women in Hawthorne: http://hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/Hawthorne&Women/Introduction.html
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/page/10085/
[text] "Rappachini's Daughter" http://scarlet.nscc.mass.edu/hawthorne/rapp.html

Zora Neale Hurston
Biography http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html#person

Gish Jen
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/jen_gi.htm
Interview: http://www.powells.com/authors/jen.html
Articles: http://www.polkonline.com/stories/091999/lif_jen.shtml
http://www.asianweek.com/062499/ae_gishjen.html

Sarah Orne Jewett
Biography http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/jewett_sa.html
Sylvia as Hero in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" by Kelley Griffith, Jr. http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/griffith.html
"Sarah Orne Jewett's Critical Theory: Notes toward a Feminine Literary Mode" http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/donovan2.html">http://gs.fanshawec.ca/ENGL286/whtheron.htmhttp://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/donovan2.html
"The White Heron" [text] http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/tne/heron.htm

Maxine Hong Kingston
Biography, Bibliography & Criticism: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/kingston_maxine_hong.html#bio
Chronology, Issues & Themes: http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/canam/kingston.htm
http://www.cc.nctu.edu.tw/~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Biography: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay_life.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/about.htm
Biography: http://www.sappho.com/poetry/e_millay.html

Naomi Shihab Nye
Biography: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/nye_naomi_shihab.html
Interview with Bill Moyers: http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_nye.html

Joyce Carol Oates
Interviews http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=883533
http://www.princetoninfo.com/oates1.html
http://princetoninfo.com/oates2.html

Mary Oliver
Biography: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/265

Cynthia Ozick
Biography http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html
Interview http://www.thirteen.org/cityarts4/week14/my_html/uncut-week14.html
Review of "The Shawl" and "Rosa" http://www.completereview.com/reviews/ozickc/shawl.htm#ours

Grace Paley
Biography & Themes: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/paley_gr.html
Interview: http://www.salon.com/11/departments/litchat1.html

Sylvia Plath
Bibliography: http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/plath.htm
Criticism: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/manuscript/plath.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=pla-76
Online Essays & Papers: http://www.sylviaplath.de/

Katherine Porter
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/porter_ka.html

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Bibliography of Critical Perspectives: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/burton.html
Biography: http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/mas/chicanohistory/chapter05/c05s07.html
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84summer/burton.htm
http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/late_nineteenth/ruizdeburton_ma.html

Sonia Sanchez
Biography: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/sanchez.htm
Biography: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/sanchez.htm

Sappho
http://www.sappho.com/poetry/sappho.html
Images in art: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sappho/ig/Sappho/index.01.htm

Leslie Marmon Silko
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/silkolaguna_le.html
Interview: http://www.altx.com/interviews/silko.html
Essay on Border Patrol: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/09-26-96/cover.htm

Susan Sontag
Biography: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/sontag.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sontag.htm

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Introduction: http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/stanton_el.html
Address @ First Women's Rights Convention: http://www.libertynet.org/edcivic/stanton.html

Amy Tan
Biography: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/tan_amy.html
Interview: http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan3.html

Alice Walker
Critical Commentaries on "Everyday Use" http://home.online.no/~helhoel/walker.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_34/ai_67413399


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Writing

Access to Quick Access Website resources By Troyka

(NHTI 2004-2006 Required Handbook for En 100 and En 101)Students gain access code packaged with new text. Includes E-Book, exercises, resources, and ability to take note and personalize handbook.
http://myphlip.pearsoncmg.com/altproducts/index.cfm?vbookid=510

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APA Format: Research & Documenting Sources

NHTI Research Paper Handbook – APA Documentation
Written and compiled by Professors Cathy Eaton and Dan Huston
http://www.nhti.edu/research/apahandbook.pdf

Opposing Viewpoints
Access to more than 100 controversial issues – each one with multiple articles exploring different points of view.
[Username and Password available through NHTI library. Username: Conc90075; Password: Conc90075]
http://www.galenet.com/index.html

Research Paper Guidelines - APA Format
http://www.apastyle.org/

Researching and Documenting Sources
The OWL writing lab at Purdue University covers productive web searches, evaluating sources, how to write a research paper, quoting, paraphrasing, & summarizing as well as sample outline and how to write a thesis sentence.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/

Web Resources Evaluation Techniques
from Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval/eval1198/index.htm


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Early Stages In Writing: Getting Started: Pre-Writing

“Getting an A on an English Paper.”
Written by Jack Lynch, a “witty and sensible” guide to effective writing which includes additional reading and links to thesis, research, style, mechanics, and close reading.
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/EngPaper/

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Numerous writing strategies by Chuck Guilford at Boise State University: Discovering a subject. Organizing, revising, & editing your writing. Thesis sentence. Support essay. Informal essays. Exploratory essays. Argumentative essays. Exercises. Graphic organizers.
http://www.powa.org/

Thesis Sentences
When You Don’t Know Enough About a Subject to Form a Thesis. Links to brainstorming, thesis, outline and research sites. From The UVic Writer’s Guide: The Essay
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/EssayThesisDontKnow.html


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Revising

Putting Voice into a Paper.
Tips, activity suggestions, and works cited, by Krysti Sibley
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/voice.html

Revision Strategies.
Discussion with interactive exercises (word choice, effective sentences)
http://www.powa.org/revise/index.html

Writing Conclusions.
Offers points for more interesting conclusions and strategies to avoid.
http://troyst.edu/writingcenter/handouts/writing_conclusions.html


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Grammar and Punctuation

Elements of Style.
Strunk & White’s handbook of concise advice on usage and composition.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5/html
All of the handbook.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

Guide to Grammar and Writing.
(sponsored by Capital Community College Fund) Cache of 150 interactive exercises for punctuation, grammar, sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Send questions to Ask Grammar.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Useful PowerPoint presentations on grammar & punctuation guidelines: i.e. run-on-sentences, sentence fragments, commas, semi-colons, clauses, apostrophes, subject-verb agreement.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Interactive grammar quizzes
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Grammar Help.
200 Handouts available from the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/


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Resume and Cover Letter Writing

PowerPoint guidelines to writing a resume and cover letter as you seek jobs
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/resumes.ppt
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/cover.ppt

Writing the Resume
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/resume.html

Writing Exercises

Interactice exercises for practice.
Topics included writing process, coherence, simple sentences, coordination-subordination, past tense, past participle, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, confused words.
http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/english/004/evergreen/evergren.html


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Writing for the Humanities

Explicating a poem
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/lit-poem.html
Glossary of literary terms
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/lit-terms.html
How to prepare for an essay exam. Handouts and resource links.
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/essay-ex.html
Questions about literature
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/qfor-lit.html
Writing about art.
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-about-art.pdf
Writing about film
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-about-film.pdf
Writing about history.
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-about-history.pdf
Writing in the biological sciences
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-in-the-biological-sciences.pdf
Writing in the health sciences
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-in-the-health-sciences.pdf
Writing about literature.
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-about-literature.html
Writing about theatre.
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/perform.html


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Technical Writing

Writing Journal Articles for Engineering and Science Journals
Format guidelines including limited summary descriptions; links to sample article and sample brief.
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/

Writing Lab Reports
Discussion of abstracts, intros and procedures/methods, results and discussion, conclusions, appendices; guidelines and sample reports from Virginia Tech’s Engineering Department.
Additional Resources link to Illinois, Toronto, and Wisconsin
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/writing-lab-reports.pdf

English As a Second Language

ESL Quiz Center
Interactive exercises for grammar, including counting/non-counting nouns, grammar, idioms and slang, reading comprehension and punctuation
http://a4esl.org/a/g.html

Vocabulary building. (ESL)
Interactive quizzes; American expressions, idioms
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/reading/main/vocabulary.htm


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