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 

Online Writing Centers 

The Slot: A Spot for Copyeditors 

The UVic Writer's Guide 

 

 

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