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Cape Fear Community College

 

 

Composition Links

Dartmouth College Writing Center Provides useful information on academic writing.

Elements of Style Full-length book that provides readers with useful information about clear writing. 

CFCC Interactive Grammar Help Provides grammar rules for some of the most common problems and interactive grammar quizzes. 

George Mason University Writing Center Provides links to web sites and handouts that help writers in various disciplines.  

Guide to Grammar and Writing Provides important information about grammar rules and writing strategies along with over a hundred interactive grammar practice quizzes. 

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Provides useful information on the process of writing argumentative and expository essays. 

Purdue Online Writing Lab Provides help with college writing and links to other useful sites. 

 

Research Links

 

Documentation Help

APA Citation Style
Provides help with documenting sources in APA style. 

MLA Citation Style
Provides help with documenting sources in MLA style. 

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on APA Documentation 
Provides help with documenting sources in APA style. 

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Documentation
Provides help with documenting sources in MLA style. 

Research and Documentation Online
Provides writers help with MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE Number System.

Online Libraries

CFCC's Learning Resource Center
Provides access to the CFCC LRC and the CFCC online catalogue system. 

Internet Public Library
Provides a library of online texts, magazines, newspapers, and other information resources from all over the world. 

The Library of Congress
Provides a comprehensive collection of publications that are available to the public and offers services such as an online catalogue, tips for researchers, and online exhibitions. 

New Hanover County Public Library
Contains information about our local public library. 

UNCW Randall Library
Contains the entire UNCW library catalogue. 

Search Engines & Online References

About.com Helpful for research on current events. 

Ask Jeeves Uses multiple search engines to provide answers to burning questions. 

Google Provides accurate searches of entire documents, not just titles.

Dogpile Helpful for research on current events and issues by searching Web Metasearch, Web Catalog, Usenet, Newscrawler, BizNews, et al. 

Merriam Webster Online Provides an online dictionary and thesaurus. It also provides vocabulary building games and exercises. 

News Sources

CNN.com Provides national and international news as well as breaking news.

MSNBC.com Provides national and international news. 

The New York Times Provides political, national, and international news.

NPR Provides stories from NPR news broadcasts as well as information about NPR programming. 

USA Today Provides some information on current events and wide range of entertainment-related stories. 

WECT Online Provides local news stories and information. (WECT is our local NBC station.) 

 

Literature Links

American and English Literature Internet Resources Provides links to a variety of literary resources on the Web.

Bartleby.Com: Great Books Online Contains information about important authors and provides full-length texts of selected works. 

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Provides a collection of electronic texts in twelve languages.

Linguistic Resources on the Internet Provides links for every aspect of linguistics, including grammar and syntax, second-language teaching, language rights, and glossaries of key terms.

A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature Provides an index for students and scholars that includes sections on conducting literary research and links to archives of e-texts.

Literary Resources on the Net Provides an index to academic sites in English and American literature, including sections on women’s literature and feminism, ethnicity and nationality, and theory.

The Online Books Page Provides full-length texts of selected works and provides news and features (such as banned books online). 

Representative Poetry Online Provides an online journal of poetry that includes selected poems; a timeline of poets, poems, and events; and a glossary of poetic terms.

The Voice Of the Shuttle Provides an index to sites of interest to researchers in humanities disciplines: art, literature, philosophy, religion, and culture studies.