APA Resources on separate page
How to register your topic:
Download this form. Write a one page thesis proposal, check with the department to see if your topic has been done before (or check the abstract page), get your supervisor to sign this document: Thesis student registration document
There are three HANDOUTS available here:
Just copy and paste them from this page or click on the link!
1. Websites for thesis research — see below
2. The English Department thesis Guidelines click here
3. Mrs. Green’s Guide to Literary Criticism Documents ONLINE — see below
Multicultural Literature in the US
Books available FREE online — download classics of English literature one chapter at at time, free of charge!
The Literature Network.
http://www.online-literature.com/
Scroll through the author’s list. You can download books for free.
American Literature.com
http://www.americanliterature.com/ARCHIVES.HTML
Classics of American Literature that you can download free of charge
American Literature Library
books for free
New information: this is a list of various transitions to use for different kinds of essays, such as comparison and contrast:
Compare and Contrast Transitions
More Transitions
Comparison and Contrast Essays
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Links for Writing a Literature Paper:
1. Writing an Academic Paper
2. Coming up with a topic
3. Developing your thesis or statement of problem
4. Organizing your paper
NEW SECTION!!! ANALYZING LITERATURE
ANALYZING DRAMA AND PLAYS
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Kristen_McDermott/writing.drama.htm How to analyze and write about drama!
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rseiler/drama.htm How to review a play, and how to write about a play
http://www.virgil.org/dswo/courses/shakespeare-histories/writing-about-shakespeare.htm Writing about Shakespeare
http://facweb.furman.edu/~moakes/Powerwrite/drama.htm Help with Writing about Drama
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ Shakespeare resources
WEBSITES FOR THESIS RESEARCH
African Literature websites:
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Contents.html
Post Colonial writers, including Emecheta: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Emech.html
Mukherjee: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Mukherjee.html
Ngugi: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ngugi.html
Ondaatje: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ondaat.html
Apartheid Literature: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/apartlit.html
African American: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/AfricanAmerican.html
Colonial Education: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Education.html
FGM: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/FGM.html
Third World Women: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/ThirdWorld.html
Yoruba women: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Yoruba.html
Zimbabwe: http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Zimb.html
Links to websites for students studying pedagogical topics or education or teaching: http://iuace.wikidot.com/journals
Literary resources on the net click here
A LIST OF WEBSITES FOR LITERATURE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH: Brooklyn College English Department list of resources
Literary resources: Feminism and Women's Issues click here
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/litcritFARQ.html
Internet Public Library literary criticism bookshelf
http://www.britannica.com/eb/subject
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol35/thurston.htm
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canvers/t16-203-e.html
About Susannah Moodie
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol12/precosky.htm
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol11/norris.htm
About Canadian Modernism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=atw-83
Margaret Atwood
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=lau-382
Margaret Laurence
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=mun-293
Alice Munro
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=ros-203
Sinclair Ross
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?pd=American:+20th+Century
20th century American Lit
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Literary Criticism – click on the title of your book, or your author’s name, or the kind of literature—British or American
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Columbia Encyclopedia. Type your topic or title or author into the box beside “Search Columbia Encyclopedia”. If you type in the wrong box, you get a website that sells you books. There are good articles here.
http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_0.0.5/Literature_Writing.html#tcsel
Encarta Encyclopedia Online. This is the literature homepage.
http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_0.0.12/Writers_Poets.html#tcsel
This is the writers and poets homepage
At the bottom of Encarta articles, it says “How to cite this article” This is not exactly APA format, but it gives you the information you need for APA. You also need to save the HTTP for your APA reference. I found an article on Chinua Achebe here.
http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_2/Literature_Guides.html#tcsel
This is the Encarta article page. There are great articles here. The problem is, if the article has a red star, you must have a subscription to view it. But there are some that are free.
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/aufram.html
A list of resources on American authors and literature. For example, I found this site on Jack London: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/london.htm
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/CHAP9.HTML
The Harlem Renaissance
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
An Online book: Perspectives on American Literature, by P. Reuben
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/authors.html
Gothic novels, like Bronte
http://www.literaryhistory.com/
Literary History, sites on American and British authors, and others. I found an whole list of articles online about Chinua Achebe: http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Achebe.htm
Jane Austen: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/AUSTEN.htm
George Eliot: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/ELIOTG.htm
Dickens: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/DICKENS.htm
19th Century authors: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Outline.htm
Walt Whitman: http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Whitman.htm
And many others!
http://www.nwpassages.com/links.asp#CanAuth
Canadian writers. I found something on Margaret Atwood here: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/atwood/index.htm
Canadian authors: http://www.nwpassages.com/links.asp#CanAuth
American History, Culture and Literature
journals about US culture and history and literature
US State Dept information
Democracy and Human Rights
Economics and Trade
Environment and Communication
Foreign Policy and National Security
Society and Values
Outline Series
Student Corner
online books, including: US Literature in Brief; US History in Brief, US Economy in Brief
University of Oregon websites on American Studies
Voice of the Shuttle full texts of American literature, plus articles about American writers and their works, by the University of California
Applied Linguistics, Teaching, Language Acquisition
Journal English Teaching Forum
Journal Language and Civil Society
Proposal Questions:
Name and student number:
What I want to write about:____
What I want to say about this topic:______
How I intend to prove this: _____
List of five resources on this topic that I have already located in NKC (4 print sources, one online source)
Mrs. Green’s Guide to Literary Criticism Documents ONLINE (Sept 17, 2007)
I have compiled a list of “academic” sources. Most of these websites are associated with universities or government projects. The focus is mostly American, Canadian and British literature, but there are also sites that mention African authors as well.
Canadian Literature Section:
Canadian Poetry Archive
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canvers/t16-203-e.html
includes information on Canadian authors, such as Susannah Moodie and others
WO Mitchell Theme Page
http://www.cln.org/themes/w.o.mitchell.html
The Canadian Literature Archive
This is where I found the WO Mitchell Theme Page. You need to search under author list and bibliographies etc, and keep clicking. There are great FREE resources here.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/canlit/
Notice, this is set up by the University of Manitoba, a Canadian University.
Canadian Authors - subpage of American Lit on the Web
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/canadian/authors/authors.htm
a good list of resources for Canadian Literature, information on Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood
Canadian Literature, online resource list
http://www.academicinfo.net/canlit.html
A celebration of women writers (Canadian)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/CANADA.html
CanLinks
http://www.lucking.net/canlinks/index.htm
web resources on Canadian literature
Literary Criticism in General — American, British, African, Canadian etc
The Internet Public Library — online literary criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Excellent source of critical articles about literature online — free!
Internet Public Library resource list
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/
great resources here on literature of all kinds
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
As far as I can tell, this is online and free. I looked up George Eliot, Victorian British author, for example, and found lots of great stuff.
Electronic Archives for the teaching of American Literature
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/tamlit/
Set up by Georgetown University, a good free resource on American Lit
Literary criticism online—a guide
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html
Great list of sites to help you find literary criticism online free.
Lit Links
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx
this website give biographies of authors and links to author websites with information about the author’s works
VG Website “Voices from the Gaps”
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/
This is from the University of Minnesota. Biographies and information on the writing of “coloured women”
American Literature Web Resources
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/basics/basics.html
this is again a university website. How to analyze literature. How to write literature papers. Literary terms
Heath Anthology of American Literature
http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/lit_links.html
this is a vast collection of resources about American Literature. Essays about literature, critical essays, biographies. Sorted by time period.
Also includes a list of sites where you can download works of literature for FREE
American Literature on the Web
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/
links to sites about US history and literature
John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism — problem, need to be a subscriber
http://litguide.press.jhu.edu/topical_index.html
Information on literary theory, like what is deconstructionism? A huge resource
Writing a Literature Paper
University of Michigan.
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/jonsmith/writing.html
good ideas on how to write a literature paper
http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/lit/adv/lit.papers.html
one professor’s comments….
OWL Online Writing Lab Purdue University
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_lit.html
planning and writing a literature paper
University of North Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature.html
everything you need to know to write your thesis