Cynthia Lee Katona, Professor - English and Women's Studies Departments
Resources: Writing
These links will take you to a variety of sites that address writing, style, grammar, online writing labs, and many more topics of interest for writers.
- Bartleby.com
- "The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, references and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information, free of charge." [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. It is the largest public reference work of literary criticism and history on the net. It includes 11,000 pages written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading scholars and thinkers of the early 20th century. [Source: Prof. Klent]
- Dictionary Resource
- This page searches around 140 different dictionaries for obscure meanings, synonyms, and homonyms. [Source: Prof. D. Owen]
- Modern Language Association MLA Style Manual
- The Modern Language Association has published an updated style manual for the proper form of citations in publications, including how to handle references to email messages, electronic databases, and websites. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab
- Purdue is one of the oldest OWL's, and provides a complete range of services, including access to handouts, online asynchronous tutorials, and writing help via email. They have links to other writing-related resources, job-search tools, and resources for English as a second language. [Source: Syllabus]
- Roget's Thesaurus
- A book of synonyms for when you have difficulty remembering the perfect word. [Source: MacUser]