Online Resources for English 1A

NOTE : THIS SITE IS UNDER CONTINUOUS CONSTRUCTION!
CR instructors who would like to contribute new sites should send URLs to: peter-blakemore@redwoods.edu . Make sure to include a note and the URL. I will try to keep the site current.

English 1A Course Outline

Pete's Handout on Neo-Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory

(With humble thanks to John Gage, Jim Crosswhite, Dave Gilcrest, et. al.)

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Research

Sites on Electronic Research in Theory and Practice

• American Library Association site on Information Literacy
• UC Berkeley's Evaluating Internet Sources site
• Cornell University's site on Evaluating Internet Sources
• Purdue's OWL on Online Research
• Teaching with Electronic Technology by Michael Hall at U MD
• History in the Raw-the National Archives site on Teaching with Primary Source Documents

General Interest Resource Sites

• CR Library Homepage
• John Johnston's Reference Page
• Librarians Internet Index
• Digital Librarians site (it's BIG)
• University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
• Online Books Page

Primary Sources Sites

• Infomime
• Library of Congress American Memory Porject
• The National Archives
• The Internet Public Library
• New NEH/Library of Congress Newspaper Collection
• UNI's excellent resource on US Historical documents
• George Potamianos' History sites used in Pete & George's Linked 1A / History 9

Secondary Sources

• Bartleby Research site

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Citation

• Purdue's OWL MLA and APA formatting site
• A good citation engine--Easybib
• CR's official MLA handout
• Trinity College's (CT) source on citation
• Purdue's OWL site on Plagiarism

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Grammar, Mechanics and Style

• Capital College of Hartford's interactive grammar site
• University of Ottawa's Hypergrammar site
• Strunk's original (1918!) Elements of Style

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Sites for Exploration and Analysis

• The Authentic History Center
  
• An Islamic Creationist Site
• A New York Times article about the site's author
  

  A Five-Minute Tutorial on web sources

• The Greening Earth Society
• The Heartland Institute
• Source Watch's site on The Greening Earth Society
• CSPI's site for Non-profits accepting corporate funding
• Union of Concerned Scientists' site on global warming