WNC Information and Resources
Western Nevada College Home Page
The place to start on the web if you are looking to find information about WNCC.
WNC Library and Media Services
This is the home page for the college library. From this page, you can begin exploring the resources available to you.
WNC Database Login (Find an Article)
This page will give you access to a massive database of journals, newspapers, and magazines. The full text of many articles can be found, printed and saved for the purposes of your research. A highly valuable resource that is available to WNC students. You will need to get a user name and password when you visit the library and get a library card. If you haven't used this resource, I highly recommend you get your library card and become accustom to using this powerful tool. It will prove invaluable to future research projects and papers.
Academic Writing on the Web
Purdue's Online Writing Lab
This link will take you to OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue University. There is a link to the old site (once you arrive at the URL above), but both places offer an array of helpful handouts covering many aspects of academic writing. Take a look around and find some extra help with your writing!
Diana Hacker's Site
Diana Hacker is the author of the Bedford Handbook and she has also been helpful enough to deliver a very useful website, especially for the purposes of documenting research. If you like using the web to learn, you might like using this site better than using the pages of the handbook.
Online Dictionaries and Reference Tools
Answers.com Online Dictionary
Can't find your old battered dictionary? You can always visit this online dictionary. I like the way this site works better than the Merriam Webster's online dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/), but you could use either. These online dictionaries (like a traditional dictionary) are useful for close reading (don't ever use the excuse "I didn't know that word" for your lack of understanding a text). You can also use the dictionary to ensure that you don't misuse that new vocabulary word in your own writing. Get a language power-up by visiting the links above.
Fiction on the Web
Celtx Screenwriting and Production Software
Celtx is open source and free to download. The homepage for this application claims that the software features an industry standards compliant screenplay editor. So, if you want to write screenplays (and don't want to spend a fortune), this may be a helpful tool. I have taken this for a test drive and it works like a charm!
Peder Hill's Novel Writing Page
I like this site, in part, because I've thought of creating something similar to expose my own efforts at writing a longer work. Afterall, if you tell the world you are writing a novel, it might motivate you to finish it.
Aspiring novelists will also find a kindred spirit and a healthy dose of advice by visiting Hill's pages.
Project Gutenberg
Have you run out of money and reading materials at the same time? Or do you want to read a classic but you don't want to exchange cold, hard cash for it? There is hope that your reading appetites will be satiated.
Zoetrope All Story
From the All Story Website:"In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched a magazine devoted to supporting the brightest young voices in fiction. In its short history, Zoetrope: All-Story has received every major short fiction award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while simultaneously discovering authors such as Adam Haslett, Melissa Bank, and David Benioff and publishing literary luminaries such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Don DeLillo, and Cynthia Ozick. Zoetrope is also an art magazine, inviting a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include Julian Schnabel, Mary Ellen Mark, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Koons, Peter Greenaway, and David Byrne."
Glimmer Train
From Glimmer Train: "Glimmer Train welcomes the work of established and upcoming writers. We especially appreciate work that is both well written and emotionally engaging. Please let us read yours! If it is chosen for publication in Glimmer Train Stories, you will be paid upon acceptance. Your story will be prepared with care, and presented in a handsome, highly regarded literary journal to readers all over the country (even a few in Ireland, England, and Australia). If you've seen Glimmer Train Stories, you know that we go to some lengths to honor our contributors and their writing."
Rosebud Magazine
From Rosebud's website: "Rosebud, a magazine dedicated to creative prose, poetry and visual art is available at over 1000 bookstores in the US, Canada and Great Britain. Published in April, August and December."
Poetry on the Web
The Academy of American Poets
Don't confuse poets.org with poetry.com. Poetry.org is full of essays, interviews, information on poets and poetry. This site also features some wonderful audio of poets reading their poems.
Blackbird
Virginia Commonwealth University's literary journal. The place I first discovered an audio recording of Larry Levis reading one of his poems, "In 1967." I had never heard his voice before and was pleasantly surprised by his warmth and his sense of humor.
Poetry Magazine's Place on the Web
The Poetry Foundation offers a large selection of poetry to its visitors. You can browse poetry by category, title, and even by occasion.
Research and Documentation
Citation Machine
One of my English 101 students suggested this nifty web tool. You can visit this link and enter relevant information for a variety of sources that you may want to cite for an academic project or paper. The web site then gives you a citation in the proper format. Just make sure you choose the appropriate style (MLA, APA, or Chicago) before entering your information. You still need to take good notes about the source material so that you can enter the right information (the website won't read your book for you yet... grin).
Diana Hacker's Documentation and Research Page
This is a fine companion site to the Bedford Handbook and Hacker's other writing guides. It contains a wealth of information on how to properly cite research for various disciplines and documentation styles.
General Resources
How to Study
A web portal that provides links to many study aides out there on the web. The assignment calculator is a very popular tool available from these pages, allowing students to plan their steps in the process of completing an assignment.
Information for WNC Web Students
First Time Login Instructions
This page will give you the basic information you need to access online learning at WNC for the first time.
Student Manuals for Our Moodle LMS
Check out these student manuals for help with features in our LMS. For example, the student manual for joule Synchronous may be quite helpful for my online classes that utilize this live discussion tool.
Online Student Training from WNC
This page is a listing of helpful information for WNC web students. Please review this information and ensure you are ready for online learning!