Persuasive Research Paper Links
Below you will find sites that will help you to make writing a research
paper easier.
Works Cited: This is an excellent example of a Works Cited page, but you
will need Adobe to view it. (You can download Adobe for free and safely.)
http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Daly-MLA-WC.pdf
Works Cited: This site contains the formulas for your Works Cited Page.
Note: #28 is for websites.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s2.html
MLA in-text citation: This site shows you the formulas for in-text citation
as well as excellent suggestions for how it should appear in your paper.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/intext.html
Research Paper: This is the main index from Purdue's Online Writing Lab.
Here, there are a plethora of links that will help you with any aspect of
the writing process (especially helpful if you are absent).
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html
Works Cited: For those of you who do not have Adobe Reader, here is a
different example of a Works Cited page.
http://www.aresearchguide.com/10works.html#sampleworks
Homework: MLA citation: How to Avoid Plagiarism. Go to the site below; type
in your name where indicated and my email address:
jfrydenborg@clintonpublic.org. This way you will receive class credit. Extra
credit for completing the Research exercise. All scores must be above an 80
to recieve credit.
http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/rs_menu.asp
Beowulf Research: Anglo Saxon Society
http://www.regia.org/Saxons1.htm
Beowulf Research: Ancient Anglo Saxon and Danish held territories.
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=map&id=submap900
Beowulf Research: Anglo Saxon elegy, also sung by Aragorn in The Lord of the
Rings as the song of Rohan.
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Wdr
Beowulf Research: This hyper text site is loaded with information about
Beowulf and his society.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/
Macbeth: Use these prompts to take notes as you read. In other words, if you
can answer these questions, you understand the basic storyline of the play.
http://www.studyguide.org/macbeth_guide.htm
Macbeth: The true history of the Scottish king named Macbeth and his wife.
http://netmedia.co.uk/history/week-12/
How to speak Eliabethan English with sound bites
http://www.renfaire.com/Language/pronunciation.html
More on how to pronounce Elizabethan English
http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-1/gurrothe.htm
Another "How to Write a Research Paper" site
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/4184/
Animal Farm: comparison chart of characters from the Russian Revolution and
the novel.
http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~sbennet3/mead/lessonplans/animalfarm.htm
SAT prep: word list (requires adobe)
http://www.freevocabulary.com/vocabulary.pdf
SAT prep: Latin cognates (learn roots of words and expand your vocabulary)
http://www.qualityquinn.com/Documents/latin_cognates.html
grammar lessons
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml
guide to grammar and writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
OWL (Online Writing Lab) guide to grammar
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
comma splices, fragments, and fused sentences
http://www.chompchomp.com/rules.htm
Grammar Bytes grammar page
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
ESL grammar page
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/index.htm
MLA citation machine.Awesome!
http://citationmachine.net/
Sherlock Holmes stories -- full text
http://www.citsoft.com/holmes3.html
adventure of the dancing men: with the "men" printed
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cpsc/cryptography/holmes/dancingmen.html
Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart -- basic info and links
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/things.html
Role of Women over view in Things Fall Apart
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/women.html
Chinua Achebe: main page to various links
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html
Things Fall Apart: Interactive village of Umuofia
http://www.literaryworlds.wmich.edu/umuofia/
Achebe: Home and Exile -- Critical essay on Achebe's writing.
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/39/68/
Achebe: An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/dmasur/An%20Image%20of%20Racism%20in%20Conrad's%20Heart%20of%20Darkness.htm
Things Fall Apart: Igbo People, basic information
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html
Things Fall Apart: Map of Nigeria, including tribal locations
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Nigeria.html
Things Fall Apart: Issues in African History, an overview
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html
Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe: In His Own Words
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe2.htm#ON%20THE%20VALUE
Things Fall Apart: revolt of Igbo women during colonialism -- essay that
articulates how European customs were foreign to native Africans
http://westafricareview.com/vol2.1/oriji.html
Things Fall Apart: excerpt from an interview with Achebe, regarding the
duties of a writer and political activism
http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/1720
Things Fall Apart: "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling: a
colonialist view of the duties of the colonizer
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kipling.html
Things Fall Apart: description of Igbo personhood and its chi
http://server1.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/igbo.html
Things Fall Apart: African storytelling, an overview
http://arts.osu.edu/ArtEducation/kplayground/storytelling.htm
Things Fall Apart: Women in precolonial Nigeria
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/colonwom.html
Things Fall Apart: study guide with Yeat's poem and chapter questions
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
Map of Colonialist Africa c. 1914
http://history.binghamton.edu/hist130/maps/africa-1.htm
Essays: intros and conclusions with examples
http://www.csuohio.edu/writingcenter/introcnc.html
essays: outlines. overview and how to create one
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/outline.html
paragraphing the essay: punctuating quotations
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/puncquotes.html
paragraphing: length, consistency
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_pgrph.html
a starting point for paragraphing with lots of great tips and reminders to
create the perfect paragraph
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/paragrf.html
Chaucer information main page
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/index.html
Chaucer: Overview of medieval culture with links to specific aspects of it
http://www.hyw.com/Books/History/Medieval.htm
Chaucer: Here's another site devoted to the culture of the timeperiod.
http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm
Medieval art & treasures at the Met
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/medieval_renaissance/images.asp
Medieval sculpture again at the Met
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/set_in_stone/images.asp
Medieval timeline of art. Thomas a Beckett is featured in the first piece
displayed.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/euwb/ht07euwb.htm
Medieval works of art from the Cloisters section of the Met
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/the_cloisters
Shakespeare globe theater: links to many useful sites.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/globe.html
Visual example of MLA paper, including lots of tips.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090216023752_557.pdf