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.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.htmlCiting Online Sources A generic citation style proposal from Michael B. Quinion.
http://clever.net/quinion/words/citation.htmMLA 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.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
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.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
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 ProgramDepartment of English, CA 303D
Hitchcock Communication Arts
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178
Phone: (402) 280-2729
Fax: (402) 280-2143gwzach@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