A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them--ever tirelessly speeding them....
-- Walt Whitman
Composition and Class
- Elements of Style -- The 1918 edition of William Strunk's classic guide for writers
- Able Writer: A Rhetoric and Handbook - describes an English composition handbook that treats pre-writing, outlining, English grammar, usage, word choice, dictionaries, spelling, punctuation, and writing college research papers.
- Basic Guide to Essay Writing - a step-by-step guide to writing a basic essay. Includes links to other on-line essay resources.
- Grammar and Style Guide - guide to grammar and style, prepared by Jack Lynch of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, which can be useful in improving the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing. By Robert Harris of Southern California College.
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - guide to writing, composition, rhetoric, editing, and style.
- Avoiding Plagiarism - advice for using sources.
- How to Lessen the Chances of Plagiarizing - from the Learning Skills Centre at the University of Northern British Columbia.
- Citation:
- The World Lecture Hall -- University of Texas at Austin index of online syllabi
Cultural studies and scholarship
- Voice of the Shuttle -- Alan Liu, UCSB
- Sarah Zupko -- index to cultural studies on the web
- Humanities index -- hosted by the University of Utah
Literature and literary studies
- Electronic Text Archive -- University of Virginia
- Project Bartleby -- University of Columbia
- Project Gutenberg -- pubilc domain literary and philisophical classics
- Books On-Line -- University of Pennsylvania index to books available over the Net
- Humanities Text Initiative -- University of Michigan: image, text, and reference collections
- Oxford Text Archive -- searchable UK site
- ETEXT Archives -- primarily amateur texts
- Blake Archive -- Dr. Robert Essick
- Rossetti Archive -- Dr. Jerome McGann
Popular culture references
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- official site
- Star Trek -- official site
- White Rabbit -- the magic linking page
- The Cabinet of Dr. Casey -- horrors
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