Reference Sites

Online Dictionaries

Online Thesauri

Project Gutenberg

Grammar Resources

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Active and Passive Voice	The Apostrophe Protection Society	Common Errors in English
Grammar Bytes	Grammar Slammer	HyperGrammar

Spelling

Spelling Rules for Irregular Nouns and Verbs

Reading from Scratch: Spelling Rules

Word Study

Commonly Confused Words	Online Etymology Dictionary
Homonym/Homophone Page	Latin words and phrases used in English

Essay Writing

Persuasive/Argument Essay	The UVic Writer's Guide
Writing Argumentative Essays	Building an Argument Essay
Elements of Argument	Words for Reporting and Connecting Ideas
OWL Online Writing Lab

 

Literary Theory

 

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory	Introductory Guide to Critical Theory	Critical Reading
Modern Critical Thought	Jerry Everard's Introduction to Theorists and Theories	TCG's Literary Criticism and Critical Theory Page
Chronological list of Literary Periods	Lit Crit Table 1	Lit Crit Table 2
introduction to the Introduction to Literary Theory	Lawyers and Literature	A Glossary Of Literary Criticism
The Rise of the Novel - Jessica Picarella	Semiotics for Beginners	The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

 

• Fiction Genres

Fiction Genre Definitions		Genre Headings: Definitions
Horror
Dark Echo: Horror	Horror Writers Association - What is Horror?	Classic Horror Short Stories	Horror Author Roundtable
Mystery
Mystery One Bookstore Author Interviews

 

Shakespeare

The First Web Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Works	Shakespeare Resource Centre	A Shakespeare Timeline	The Complete Works of Wiiliam Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Globe Research Database	Encyclopaedia Britannica - Shakespeare	shakespeareNet	Everything Shakespeare
Macbeth
Macbeth Plugged	Macbeth enotes	Enjoying Macbeth	Spark Notes: Macbeth
King Lear
Mr Mills' PowerPoint (2.3 MB)	All Shakespeare: King Lear

 

 

 

	Poetry		Brave New World
To Kill a Mocking Bird	S E Hinton	Ms Dalgleish's Essay Structure Guidelines	Media Links
Literary Theories

 

• Brave New World
  
  

  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley: The Author and his Times	Aldous Huxley: Biography.com

http://www.novelguide.com/index.html

• To Kill a Mocking Bird
  
  

  Crime Library Serial Killers: Eric Edgar Cooke	The Hannibal Library: Eric Edgar Cooke

 

 

Media Links

Radio
All Music Guide

Fry's Readability Press 'n' for each syllable and  'm' at the end of each word. When you complete a sentence, press '.' and the program will work out the approximate readability level in whole years.

 

Poetry

Poet's Corner

 

Children's Authors and Illustrators

The Golden Treasury (1875) (ed., Francis T. Palgrave)

Modern British Poetry - Edited by Louis Untermeyer

The Oxford Book of English Verse (1919) (ed., Arthur Quiller-Couch)

Yale Book of American Verse (1912) (ed., Thomas R. Lounsbury)

Booker Prize Author List (Booker Prize winning and shortlisted authors, with links to pages for each author containing a bio, bibliography, and other information)

The Modern English Collection

This heterogenous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in SGML and includes a bibliographic header with details about the creation of the electronic text and its print source.

The EServer Poetry Collection

Glossary of Poetic Terms (includes links to examples)

 

 

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? 

LiteratureClassics.com ("biographical details, lists of works in chronological order, contextual details and critical and analytical essays on individual texts")

"Critical Reading: A Guide" (guide designed for first-year university literature students)

The Neverending Tale - It is a choose-your-own-path adventure story- like you might read in a book. But you can add to the tale where ever you like.

The Grapes of Web