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Welcome! Look below for ways to research and write papers.

This website is designed to help students research and write papers that use correct grammar and are so amazingly well written that your professors will sit up, take note, and mark "A" at the top of the paper.
If you need help getting started with writing, click on The Basics: how to write, cite, and delight
If you are not sure what topic you want to write about, the research links are divided into two sections: Where to start research and Where to go for specific research. The research topics are also listed by categories below. I've also included some links to other English Department websites, online libraries, and miscellaneous bizarre links that I've enjoyed.
American Literature Children's Literature Drama
English Literature Linguistics Literary Theory & Criticism
Other Literature in English 
(not American or English)		 Poetry Women's Studies
Bizarre Links to Miscellany Links to other  English Web sites
The English Undergraduate Program at HNC  The English Graduate Program at HNC   

 

(links to writing a paper, citing a source, and getting a  good grade) 

Writing and Delighting

The Holy Names College Writing Page How to Write a Paper How Not to Write a Paper
How to Write a Persuasive Paper How to Write a Research Paper Identifying the Argument in a Paper
Online English Dictionary Seven Ways to Get an F on a  Paper  Why Bother with Grammar?

Citing (and Exciting Reference Material)

The Cite Site MLA documentation Strunk & White's Elements of Style Fowler's King's English
(From the Humanities Department of Capital Community-Technical College) (A classic work on the basics of writing) (Another classic on English usage)

Libraries

Links to local libraries  Library of Congress Home page Library of Congress Reading Room
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Vatican Exhibit Main Hall The British Library Online
Bodleian Library (Oxford) Manuscripts Indiana University Libraries Stanford University Libraries


Bizarre Miscellaneous English Links

 The Bulwer-Lytton Contest Hamlet 
 Ulysses for Dummies
(A classic contest of the Worst writing in English.) (As Raymond Chandler would have written it.)
 (James Joyce's work in cartoon form.)
Voice of the Shuttle: Laws of Cool Page
  Great Books Literary Cafe, Chat, & Campfires 
 A worldwide list of English Department web pages 
(All right, this site doesn't have a lot to do with English exactly, but it's fun.)
 (Chat rooms for literary discussions)
 (Long list of English Departments)
   



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