Useful Links for Students

Writing

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

HyperGrammar (a useful site explaining lots of grammar topics sponsored by the University of Ottawa)

Documenting sources using the MLA format (a very helpful site sponsored by Purdue University)

Online Etymology Dictionary

Film Studies

General film studies resources page

EarlyCinema.com

The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

Journalism

Society of Professional Journalists

Columbia Journalism Review

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Student Press Law Center

Journalism.org

Newspapers

The Baltimore Sun
The Washington Post
The Washington Times


The New York Times
The Boston Globe
The Los Angeles Times
The Wall Street Journal


San Francisco Chronicle
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Star-Ledger


The Seattle Post-Intelligencier
Chicago Sun-Times
USA Today

New Orleans Times-Picayune

The Denver Post
The Albuquerque Journal
The Houston Record

News Magazines

Time
U.S. News & World Report
Newsweek


The Nation
Christian Science Monitor
National Geographic

National Review
The Atlantic
The New Yorker

The Weekly Standard
Slate
Mother Jones
Sports Illustrated
Rolling Stone
Spin

BusinessWeek
Smithsonian
Forbes

Literature

The Modern Word (an awesome site with tons of information about modernist and post-modernist writers)

Narratology Terms (from Purdue University)

Glossary of Literary Terms (from Bedford/St. Martin's)

Classic Short Stories

Detectives

Hard-boiled Detective Fiction (by Professor William Marling of Case Western Reserve University)

Mystery Readers International and Mystery Readers Journal

The Drood Review of Mystery

Quotations

The Quotations Page

Quoteland

The Quotations Archive

 

Other Useful Links

CIA World Fact Book

The Onion

American Civil Liberties Union

This Day in History

Time's 80 Days that Changed the World

Center for the Study of Popular Television

The Campus Computing Project

 

 

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