English Composition I & II Resource Page

• Drew University Writing Program Web Resources (Drew University)
  This Web site contains various writing resources available on the Internet including a list of on-line writing centers (OWLS) and writing programs.
• How to Critique a Rough Draft (The University of Michigan-Dearborn)
  This Web page provides a handout for students to guide them as they critique each other's work.
• Resources for Documenting Sources (Purdue University)
  This Web site "will help you find resources for citing sources and formatting your paper in various disciplines."
  
• Adventures In Quoting (Southern Illinois University--Edwardsville)
  This Web site provides exercises to help students identify what should and should not be quoted in one's research essay.
• Who Said That? How to Cite Electronic Resources
  Education World explores a variety of bibliographic styles for citing online resources. Included are mini-style guides students can save--and use.
• Plagiarism (Northwestern University)
  Northwestern's "Principles Regarding Academic Integrity" defines plagiarism as "submitting material that in part or whole is not entirely one's own work without attributing those same portions to their correct source." Plagiarism can occur in many forms besides writing: art, music, computer code, mathematics, and scientific work can also be plagiarized. This document pays special attention to plagiarism in writing, but it is important to understand that unauthorized collaboration in a math or science assignment is also plagiarism.
• Columbia University Press
  Based on The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 1998), this site discusses the basics of CGOS.
• Questions To Guide Rewriting (Southern Illinois University--Edwardsville)
  This Web site summarizes material from A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers by Erika Lindemann (4th ed., 2001, pp. 209-10).
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals
  From the Cornell University Library, this site provides a useful discussion for students on the differences between journals and magazines.
• Information and Its Counterfeits
  This Web site helps to distinguish real information from its three lookalikes, or counterfeits: propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation.
• Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources
  
• Media Links
  Drew University provides a collection of "major online media links" and "political commentary links."
  
• Internet Searching
  Drew University’s "collection of sites reflects just a few of the tools that are available on the Internet."
  
• Statistics Every Writer Should Know
  Mathematicians have developed an entire field—statistics—dedicated to getting answers out of numbers.
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute
  The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a non-profit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education. AGI publishes Family Planning Perspectives, International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy and special reports on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Internet Resources for Writers
  This site provides links to many different writing tools and research tools.
• Project Vote Smart
  Project Vote Smart has compiled information on over 13,000 candidates and elected officials, including President, Congress, governors, and state legislators.
• SpeakOut.com
  SpeakOut.com, an opinion research company, provides political polls, interactive polls, and articles on a variety of issues.
• Writer's Resource Center
  The Writer's Resource Center was created in 1993 to serve the needs of writers on the Internet. It contains thousands of links, along with articles and job opportunities and book reviews dealing with everything from creative writing to technical writing.
• Episteme Links.Com
  Devoted to philosophy resources on the Internet, this Web site includes links to over 500 print and electronic journals. You can search by the first initial of each title, or by topic or philosopher area. When searching by topic or philosopher, you can also limit your search to print journals, electronic journals, or both.
• Evaluating Web Resources (Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University)
  This site provides the Original Web Resource Evaluation Module used by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate, authors of Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web. It covers the basics of Web evaluation for the different types of Web sites available on the Internet and provides valuable examples of each. Take a look at the link to Additional Sites with Web Evaluation Materials at the bottom of the page.
• The ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web (Ithaca College Library)
  This Web site works well for students as a hands-on activity to learn about Web site evaluation. It is frequently updated by the author, John R. Henderson, Ithaca College Library, with new activities added occasionally.
• Six C's for Critiquing Web Resources (McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire)
  The Web page provides a handy list of things to consider about web resources.
• Guidelines for Evaluating Web Sites (George Mason University)
  George Mason University provides an list of Web sites devoted to the evaluation of web resources
• Using Class Email Discussion Lists
  The materials on this Web site are geared toward courses in Romantic Studies, but they provide useful ideas for teachers in any field to design and use online resources for teaching. In addition, it regularly features different syllabi and Web pages used by Romantics professors (good examples from which to get ideas).
• The New Plagiarism
  From The Educational Technology Journal, this Web page discusses the problem with paper mills and what to do to avoid plagiarism.

The Web sites in this section offer a broad sampling of the kinds of student papers that are available on the Web.

• A Sample Student Paper: "The Dangers of Obedience"
  
  
• Sample Papers
  Sample Summaries of Doris Lessing’s "Group Minds," Philip K. Zimbardo’s "The Stanford Prison Experiment," and a sample critique of Karol Kelley’s, "Pretty Woman: A Modern Cinderella." Also, a rough draft and final draft of a synthesis paper on America and Bioterrorism.
• A Sample Student Critique of Doris Lessing’s "Group Minds"
  
  
• Sample Synthesis Paper from Online Paper Mill: "Mindless Humans"
  This paper cites information from Lessing, Migram, Asch, and Fromm.
• Sample Synthesis Paper: "Cinderella: A Poisonous Fantasy"
  
• Sample Synthesis Paper: "The Effect of Classic Fairy Tales on Readers and Society"
  
• Sample Synthesis Paper: "Into the Woods"
  
• Sample Critique Paper: "A Feminist’s View of 'Cinderella'"
  
• Sample Summary Paper: "'Cinderella': A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts"
  
• Sample Summary Paper: "Universality of the Folktale"
  
• Sample Paper: "Out of the Ashes: The Emergence of the Cinderella Story"
  
• Sample Paper: "Hamlet: Weakness or Justice?" by Benjamin Scott-Hopkins
  
• Sample Paper: "A Study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Shakespeare's Hamlet" by Lois Simpson
  
• Sample Paper: "Hamlet and Fortinbras" by Fayza Tanzeen Ahmed
  
• Student Papers about Hamlet
  This Web site provides an extensive collection of student papers that might work well for examples, revision, discussion, etc.

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