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This page will point you to Internet information resources that may help you complete the requirements of Writing & Literature I and II at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Internet resources are found on this page. However, it may be more efficient for you to search one of the leased/purchased Electronic Resources available free to RIT students, faculty and staff.

Index

• Current Event/News Sources/Magazines

• MLA Citation Styles

• OWLS. Online Writing Labs

• Student Writings

• Writing Tools

• Search Engines

Current Event/News Sources/Magazines:

CNN

http://www.cnn.com

Mother Jones

http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/mother_jones.html

MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.com/news/

Time-Warner Pathfinder

http://pathfinder.com

Search many of the Time-Warner magazines including Time, Fortune and People.

USAToday

http://www.usatoday.com

The Economist

http://www.economist.com

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

1st Headlines-News

http://www.1stheadlines.com/
News headlines from top 273 newspapers and broadcast news sources. Browse general topic, state, U.S., general interest and U.S. politics, and international stories

BOBST Library at NYU

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/soc/nce/w3news.htm
WWW newspapers and other news sources includes: NYC newspapers, selected U.S. news sources, popular news media, regional and global gateways.

Explore the Internet!

http://www.amdahl.com/internet/meta-index.html
Worldwide Web Search Engines searchable; includes good selection of both specialized and general search engines.

Non-Commercial Sites:

Blue Ribbon Campaign

http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html

Campaign for online freedom of speech, press and association. Includes links to the following organizations: * American Civil Liberties Union * Center for Democracy & Technology * * Electronic Frontier Foundation * * Electronic Privacy Information Center * Voters' Telecom Watch *

NRP National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org

Radio on the Internet. Audio clips of NPR stories. Need RealAudio, a free software to run these audio clips.

PBS Online

http://www.pbs.org
Public Broadcasting Sytem's online resources to progams and program topics.

Government Sites:

Defense Link
http://www.defenselink.mil/
The official United States Department of Defense site. Contains news, [photographs, publications, sites of interest, and FAQ.

MLA Citation Styles:

MLA Citation Format Guide

http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/mla.htm

A guide to documenting sources using the MLA format with specific examples documenting sources found using
RIT Library's Research Databases.

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association Documentation.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
An award winning page documenting MLS citation formats by Capital Community College.

Columbia Guide to Online Style

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Provides information on the elements of citations, documenting sources in the text, and preparing the bibliographic material.

MLA Citation Style

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm
A good internet resource page from the B.Davis Schwartz Memorial Library providing citation examples.

Using Modern Language Association Format (Online Writing Lab)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
MLA citation examples for various forms of sources.

Writers' Workshop

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/workshop/

Comprehensive document with specific examples cited in MLA style.

OWLS. Online Writing Labs:

Researchpaper.com

http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/writing-labs-via-email.html

Provides information on writing research papers, including organization and research skills.

International Writing Centers Assocation

http://iwca.syr.edu/IWCA/IWCAOWLS.html
A comprehensive listing of online writing centers.

 

Student Writings:

Yahoo- News:Newspapers:University

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/College_and_University/Newspapers/

University Newspapers, from the Yahoo directory

 

Writing Tools:

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations,1901

http://www.bartleby.com/99/

The 1901 edition of famous and/or familiar quotations, hence the title.

Gateway to Hypertext Webster

http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
A hypertext interface to various Webster Internet dictionaries. Almost all words are hypertexted allowing you to explore the meanings of related words.

Grammar Handbook

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/

This Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.

Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.oed.com
The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, "the internet's biggest, most
prestige-laden reference book" (The Guardian).

Roget's Thesaurus

http://asadz.com/thesaurus/

 

Search Engines:

Overview table of most popular search engines.

Alta Vista

http://www.altavista.digital.com

Fast with lots of returns. Can search either Web or Usenet.

Google

http://www.google.com
Quick with good categorizing.

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com

Carnegie Mellon University's Lycos search engine returns a citation of the pages that match the search. Searches document title, heading, subheading and first 20 lines of text.

MetaCrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com

The MetaCrawler WWW Search Engine, by Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. The MetaCrawler is a tool which allows you to search using multiple search engines simultaneously.

AskJeeves

http://www.askjeeves.com/

AskJeeves allows the user to state their search in the form of a question. Multiple search engines are checked for the best matches.

Maintained by Susan Mee