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English Composition Links

Elements of Style – By Strunk with rules of usage and principles of composition.
The English Pages - Writing resources from AB Longman.
The English Research Room - Interactive tutorials and reference units on the research process.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Guide to Writing for Research Papers – Based on the MLA Style.
Indispensable Writing Resources - You'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites.
Interpreting Writing Assignments - From Harcourt-Brace.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus Online
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - Site offers a practical, example-filled guide to writing college essays, including help on style, structure, and mechanics.
Research Paper Help.net - This site is a resource to help high school and university students with the process of writing research papers.The links offer instruction and tips for the various stages of writing a research paper.
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - Great site with examples from Purdue University.
Write101.com - Over 200 pages of articles on writing and is designed to help everyone improve their writing and editing skills. The process involves looking at grammar, punctuation, and structure in a way that allows you to re-evaluate your writing style and improve the way you communicate in text.

English Literature Links

4Literature - Read any one of thousands of classic books free at this site. The  archives include the works of Shakespeare, religious and historical documents, children's fairy tales, Greek and Roman classics, and books by famous American authors of the 19th century.
Bibliomania - works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and a few reference titles. 
BookBrowse.com - Read excerpts from bestsellers, new fiction and non-fiction.
BookBrowser - Fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature - Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing in the early part of the 20th century.
Critical Reading: An Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism
The EServer - Publisher of free texts in the arts and humanities.
The Fray - Personal storytelling and poetry.
A Glossary of Literary Terms & A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Internet Poetry Archive - This archive makes available selected poems from a number of contemporary poets.
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - Summaries of major literary theories.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism - An international, encyclopedic guide to the important figures, schools, and movements in literary theory.
Literature and Life - Explore this unique collection of African-American literature and the people, ideas, and eras that the work represents - From PBS.
Literary Calendar - An almanac of literary information.
Literary Movements - Provides a brief overview, including definitions and links, of selected movements in American literature and culture. 
NovelGuide - Free source for literary analysis
The On-Line Books Page - The On-Line Books Page is a directory of 9,000+ books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
On-Line Texts Collection - The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection contains over 16,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
Perspectives in American Literature - This searchable site provides outlines and bibliographies of hundreds of authors, themes, and literary movements in the U.S. from colonial days to the present.
Poetry.com - Search for poets by name, 100 best poems, and more.
Poets.org - The Academy of American Poets website features searchable databases of poetry and poets, recordings of poems being read, and much more.
Project Gutenberg - Free online classic books.
Searchebooks.com - A search engine that indexes the full text of  thousands of online books.
Shakespeare - Site contains the full 1350-page Oxford Shakespeare. The searchable material includes 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous documents.
Short Stories - Collection of classic short stories.
Short Stories from East of the Web - Site offers numerous free classic short stories sorted by genre: fiction, nonfiction, children, humor, romance, science, etc.
Simond's History of American Literature
Study Guides to Various Works - Lots of great study guides on classic books.
Wright American Fiction - The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.

Textbook Companion Sites

America Now (Atwan)
The Bedford Handbook
CyberReader
Harcourt Brace College Handbook
The Language of Argument (McDonald)
The New Century Handbook (Hult)
Read, Reason, Write
Research and Documentation in an Electronic Age (Hacker)
Research Papers (Coyle)
Writing Research Papers (Lester)