Find information and strategies on how to write and edit papers.
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 we
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 coveri
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Links to general reference tools on the web. Some of these are community edited sources and should not be used as authoritative texts.
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 p
MLA, APA, Chicago style? Get help at these sites.
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).
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.
Find official college information by following these links.
The place to start on the web if you are looking to find information about WNCC.
This page will give you access to a massive database of journals, newspapers, and magazines.
This is the home page for the college library. From this page, you can begin exploring the resources available to you.
Find pages concerning authors of fiction and the craft itself
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!
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!
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 mig
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?
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."
From the All Story Website:"In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched a magazine devoted to supporting the brightest young voices in fiction.
A magazine of fiction for West Coast writers.
Find information and pages concerning poetry and poets.
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 bef
The Poetry Foundation offers a large selection of poetry to its visitors. You can browse poetry by category, title, and even by occasion.
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.
Humanities Links for CH 201
Okay, it's not the game of human existence, but it is an early example of Ancient Egyptian Culture (a preview of next week). The original rules for this game were lost, but this web version i
English 231/CH 201: Week 1
Think you know everything there is to know about early human ancestors? Read about the tiny, 18,000 year-old, hobbit-sized people that researchers recently found near Australia.
There are several discussions and videos of Paleolithic cave art on the web. This link provides offers the most helpful commentary I found, focusing mainly on the Lascaux caves.
While Stonehenge may indeed be a giant clock, new revelations have perhaps solved this great mystery, or at least moved researchers several steps closer to an explanation.
This video on the Chauvet Cave may be worth watching just to see the image of the hand on the cave wall (it gave me chills for some reason-- it's probably worth trying to figure out why it had this
Consider for a moment an archaeological discovery of a body that's just about as haunting as anything you will see on CSI: an ice mummy of a man (the interesting guy pictured above) who lived befor
In 2008, archaeologists even found a new pyramid that belonged to a Sixth Dynasty queen. You can see the story here.
Just within the last few years (2006), a new tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings. You can visit an interactive map and article about the tomb here.
There is an ongoing debate as to whether the ancient Egyptians voyaged to the Americas. Researchers recently uncovered traces of cocaine and tobacco on Egyptian mummies.
Researchers are puzzled by these very strong ropes which were discovered in 2005. Artifacts such as these are very rare, as these materials usually decay over time. However, these were
Explore an interactive version of Khufu's pyramid.
This link will take you to a video explanation and dramatization of the Isis and Osiris story.
From this page, you can read about "the new face" of King Tut, as revealed by modern technology and forensics. This National Geographic site also includes an interactive experience of King Tu
An interesting overview, covering parts of the New Kingdom.
Another discovery in 2007 erased previous theories about the Temple at Karnak.
A BBC video that covers the glories and destruction of ancient Minoa.
A story that covers a Stanford historian who is exploring links between mythological creatures and fossils.
A good overview of the Minoan palace of Knossos in pictures and text.
Use this online translation to read selections from the Iliad.
Another translation of the Iliad that is available online.
A public domain audio book of the Iliad. The voice talent might not be as magnificent as more recent renditions, but it's still useful to hear this work read aloud.
An online, digital copy of the Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston.
An online digital copy of the Odyssey as translated by Samuel Butler.
For the Iliad, this humanities page contains a useful map of Homeric geography and a timeline, among other helpful resources.
A Discovery Channel video on the lost city of Atlantis.
Ancient Greek embalming evidence discovered and examined.
Ian Johnston's translation of the ancient Greek poem.
A good overview of Greek civilization and its influences on Western Culture
The second part of the Discovery Channel's presentation on Ancient Greece.
Another New York Times account of the Valley of the Golden Mummies. This discovery is interesting in how it reveals a blending and synthesis between civilizations from the Egyptian to the Rom
Ancient text of Greek poetry found with an Egyptian mummy ("the most significant discovery in Greek literature in several decades").
New research on the origins of the Greek god, Zeus.
Mesa Community College's rather useful page that collects the various facts and theories about Atlantis's existence.
This page discusses the possible influence of Thera on the story of Moses from the Bible, among other things.
A New York Times story on the Valley of the Golden Mummies (large burial site of both Egyptian and Greco-Roman mummies)
Browse a digitized version of the oldest copy of the Iliad!
An amazing written account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius by Pliny the Younger. This video slide show uses images to dramatize the writer's original words.
It is haunting to see the images of lives that were suddenly affected by the natural disaster at Pompeii.
One of Sophocles greatest tragedies.
Could Arthurian legends be derived from the historical reality of a Roman outpost that was left after the collapse of the Roman empire? This document discusses this possibility among others.<
You can now tour ancient Rome in Google Earth and in three dimensions. You will need a fairly robust computer to run this, but there is something to be said for experiencing ancient Rome as a
John Dryden's Translation of Virgil's Epic.
A highly imaginitive work from one of Greek's greatest satirists.
Complete and unexpurgated translation by W. C. Firebaugh
Imagery of Pompeii set to music.
Read these two poems by Sappho found by following the provided link.
A recently unearthed Roman battlefield in Germany has changed the timeline that we find in our textbook.
A video explaining the recent discovery of a previously unknown Roman battlefield.
A news story on the earliest known example of Hebrew writing discovered in June 2008
A new find that raises doubts about the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
This link will take you to chapter 1 of Genesis, with a link to the next page and Chapter 2. Follow along until you have read all three chapters.
Israel Antiquities Authority officialy denounces James Ossuary as a fake.
The professor's recreation of the shroud suggests that it could be a medieval forgery.
This film goes even further with the limestone burial boxes as evidence, suggesting that the family tomb of Jesus has actually been found. A certain dose of skepticism is certainly warranted
Luke Chapter 10, from the New Testament. Read verses 25-37.
Luke Chapter 15, from the New Testament. Read verses 11-32.
A 2003 article discussing the authenticity of the James Ossuary.
This article shows that the trial to determine the authenticity of the burial box of James continues into 2010.
An amazing copy of biblical text; the oldest known to exist. The Library of Congress page on the scrolls is certainly worth a look.
Is this clear evidence of the life of Jesus, a forgery, or an artifact with a common name that is impossible to clearly link to Jesus? The debate continues, and the artifact itself cont
A rather good overview of the controversy and accusations surrounding the authenticity of the alleged biblical relic.
The first part of the general discussion of the alleged burial shroud of Christ. Part two is also available. This presentation is more show than science, but it still provides some inte
Part 1 of a PBS Documentary on Islamic Civilization.
Part 2 of the PBS documentary.
This PBS video continues with the Ottoman Empire.
A free animated film (created on a laptop with a budget of $200,000) that fuses the Ramayana of Hindu India with 1920's blue's singer Annette Hanshaw? It also tells the story of the film make
The Project Gutenberg E-book of the Ramayana, as translated by Ralph Griffith.
A BBC documentary on the history of Indian Civilization.
Part 2 of the BBC documentary on Indian Civilization.
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad as edited by Andrew Lang.
Article about the Effort to Find Ghengis Kahn's Tomb
A short book review that covers the possibility that Genghis Khan treated women favorably in his empire.
Article about the discovery of Ghengis Kahn's palace.
Here is a page that lets you experience digital reproductions of ancient documents, including the ancient Diamond Sutra of Budhist tradition.
Waka Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (d. 708-715)
Waka poem by by Hitomaro, Lord Kakinomoto
Although entertaining, von Daniken's arguments have been debunked by scholars. This Chariots of the Gods video gives you an overview of von Daniken's books, and if the worn-out 1970's soundtr
Karen Masters, who has her PhD from Cornell, explains the realities of the long count of the Mayan calendar and its implications. Note: even though Masters is a doctor of science, citing Wiki
A wonderful set of informational pages on Palenque from Wesleyan University.
"The hype, the legend, the history and the reality" of the Crystal Skulls as presented by The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
If you want to dive further into the 2012 hype, you can read a recent USA Today article about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world.
A Discovery Channel Description of a Recently Discovered Druid Grave.
Beowulf as translated by Lesslie Hall, Ph.D.(a very recent translation by Seamus Heaney does a fine job updating the language to more contemporary verse, but here is a free version that is quite reada
View an interactive map to see how the Roman empire gobbled up Celtic territory.
A Time Magazine article on theories about Stonehenge, including the idea that Merlin may have moved the stones to their current location (taken with a grain of salt, of course).
National Geographic Article on Druids and Early Celtic Ritual.
A rather thorough exploration of the importance of trees in early belief systems, including a discussion of the druids and the celts.
An account of a battle with the Celts by the Roman historian, Tacitus, can be found here.
Do you need an introduction before diving into Dante? Take a virtual tour of Dante's Hell. Select "Inferno" on the left side of your screen.
The first part of a PBS documentary that covers the crusdaders, King Richard I, and Salah Ad-Din. The rest of this film can currently be viewed in nine parts through YouTube.
An introduction to the oldest extant example of the rhymes of Robin Hood, as alluded to in William Langland's Piers Plowman (1377 C.E.).
This is the Longfellow version at project Gutenberg.
Early anonymous, medieval plays and ballads about Robin Hood. Scroll around the page for a larger index of all the articles in this collection.
