Department of English

Web Resources for Grad Students in English

 
CAREER
CITATION AND STYLE
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH
UNIVERSITIES
WRITING GUIDES


CAREER 

 

Allied Organizations of the MLA
American Philological Association 
Academy of American Poets 
American Conference for Irish Studies 
Associated Writing Programs 
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment 
Calls for Papers 
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students 
Creighton Grad Student Funding 
H-Net Academic Announcements 
Modern Language Association 
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.html 
Brief 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.html
Citing Online Sources 
A generic citation style proposal from Michael B. Quinion.
http://clever.net/quinion/words/citation.htm
MLA Style 
"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.htm 
Online! 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 

 

Foreignword.com 
Hypertext Webster Interface 
Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) 
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities 
Merriam-Websters' WWWebster 
OneLook Dictionaries 
Yourdictionary.com 
Oxford English Dictionary 
Roget's Thesaurus 
Synonym Dictionary 
Translating Dictionaries 


RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH 

 

American Literature: General Resources 
Bibliomania 
Contemporary Authors 
Literary Links (David Callon) 
Literary Resources on the Net 
Literary Resources--Theory 
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.html 
Association 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.html 
University 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.html 
US News and World Report College Rankings 
This article includes national as well as the regional rankings.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/
corank.htm 
US 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 

 

Common Errors in English 
Common Proofreading Symbols 
Elements of Style 
Guide to Grammar & Writing 
Online Writing Centers 
The Slot: A Spot for Copyeditors 
The UVic Writer's Guide 

 

Dr. Greg Zacharias
Director of the Graduate Program

Department of English, CA 303D

Hitchcock Communication Arts
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178
Phone: (402) 280-2729
Fax: (402) 280-2143

gwzach@creighton.edu


Web Page http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/grad1.htm


 

 

For information, contact Jackie Masker, Senior Administrative Assistant, at 402.280.2822 or jackie@creighton.edu