Homework Help - Literature

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WEBSITES

Literature

Bartlett's Familiar Quotes

(http://www.bartleby.com/99/)
Need to find out who said what? Check here.

The Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection

(http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit)
Contains over 1000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.

The Modern English Collection

(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html)
A fairly large collection of "fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present. You may also search the collection by keyword, author and/or title

Project Gutenberg

(http://www.gutenberg.net/)
The full-text of public domain, copyright-free works of literature. You can download 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Beowulf, Macbeth, The Red Badge of Courage, and more.

Schmoop

[Literature & Poetry]
(http://www.shmoop.com/literature/)
Shmoop content is written primarily by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale. They source their work and set rigorous academic standards.

World Languages

DATABASE

Mango Languages

Learn another language! Available languages include French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (Leventine), Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Turkish, Hebrew, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Hindi and Irish, as well as ESL French, ESL Italian, ESL German, ESL Russian, ESL Mandarin Chinese, ESL Cantonese Chinese, ESL Japanese, ESL Greek, ESL Arabic, ESL Korean and ESL Vietnamese.

WEBSITES

Foreignword.com

(http://www.foreignword.com/)
Online dictionaries and language translation.

Education World®: Foreign Language Center.

(http://www.education-world.com/foreign_lang/)
Foreign language and ESL teachers can find lesson plans and instructional strategies. Students can find flash cards and other language learning tools

I love languages

(http://www.ilovelanguages.com/)
 I Love Languages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.

Writing Papers

Grammar Bytes! Interactive Grammar Review

(http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm)
It's an interactive grammar review.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

(http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/)
Complete information on grammar, punctuation, and essay writing, plus links to other sites.

Noodle Tools

(http://www.noodletools.com)
Includes free tools to help with research and citations.

Online! A reference guide to using internet sources

(http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html)
Includes MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources, from UCLA

(http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/11605_12337.cfm )
Some points to consider when evaluating websites.