Department of English
Web Resources for Grad Students in English
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
CAREER
Allied Organizations of the MLA
American Philological Association
American Conference for Irish Studies
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students
Creighton Grad Student Funding
National Council of Teachers of English
Workplace
CITATION AND STYLE
Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet
This article offers both a discussion of the difficulties involved in citing materials on the internet, but also provides a style sheet based on the MLA format and the work of Janice Walker.
http://falcon.eku.edu/honors/beyond-mla/Bibliographic Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
Based on Li and Crane's Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information (1996) (REF PN171 .F56L5 1996), these pages offer guidelines for adapting APA and MLA bibliographic formats for electronic resources including web pages and CD-ROM resources.
http://www.uvm.edu/~xli/reference/estyles.htmlBrief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
Melvin Page offers bibliographic formats for Internet resources based on the 5th edition of Turabian's Handbook for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~africa/citation.htmlA generic citation style proposal from Michael B. Quinion.
http://clever.net/quinion/words/citation.htm"These guidelines on MLA documentation style are the only ones available on the Internet that are authorized by the Modern Language Association of America." Includes information on citing sources from the World Wide Web.
http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htmOnline! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
This is a website that accompanies and supports the book of the same name (REF TK5105.875 I57 H364 1997) published by St. Martin's Press. Included in the site is a style guide for MLA format and questions from readers answered by the book's authors.
http://www.smpcollege.com/online-4styles~help/
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
Translating Dictionaries
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
American Literature: General Resources
Literary Links (David Callon)
Mating Relationships in Fiction
Voice of the Shuttle
UNIVERSITIES
Critical Comparisons of American Colleges and Universities
This site not only lists Colleges and Universities by name and by Carnegie classification, but it also provides comparative data based on the US Department of Education IPEDS database, National Research Council research, and crime statistics.
http://webj110b.ntx.net/cc/index.htmlAssociation of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Online resource for Jesuit colleges and universities providing information about conferences, jobs, and more in the member institutions.
http://www.ajcunet.edu/MIT List of University Homepages
Christina DeMello's comprehensive compilation of college and university URL's.
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.htmlUniversity of Florida List of University Home Pages
Lists college and university home pages by institution name, provides departmental or unit home page in the absence of an official home page.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/
american-universities.htmlUS News and World Report College Rankings
This article includes national as well as the regional rankings.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/
corank.htmUS News and World Report Graduate School Rankings
With supplemental advice on career choices and surviving graduate school, this site ranks graduate and professional school programs.
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bcrank.htm
WRITING GUIDES
The Slot: A Spot for Copyeditors
For additional information:
Dr. Brent Spencer
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English
Creighton Hall, Room 141B
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178
Phone: (402) 280-2192
Fax: (402) 280-2143
brentspencer@creighton.edu
Web Page: http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/grad1.htm
Or contact Jackie Masker, Senior Administrative Assistant, at 402.280.2822 or jackie@creighton.edu