Click on one of the categories below to find links to helpful web sites.

	Edgy Web Sites (progressive, reactionary, weird)
	Reading and Writing Resources		Literature Sites
	Research Sites		Dictionaries
	Student Success / Study Skills		ESL Resources

 

EDGY WEB SITES

Edgy Progressive
Common Dreams News Center ("Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community," Incredible resource for alternative news)
Information Clearing House ("News you won't find on CNN or Fox News")
BuzzFlash (alternative news source)
The Free Press ("Speaking Truth to Power")
Arianna Huffington (alternative news source)
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
ZNet Magazine (Huge resource for alternative news articles)
Guardian (British newspaper)
truthout (Alternative resources for news and op ed pieces about current events)
Mother Jones Magazine Site
A Public Interest Journal (TomPaine.common sense)
MichaelMoore.com (The Official Web Site of Michael Moore)
The Onion ("America's Finest News Source")
Counter Punch ("America's Best Political Newsletter")
Web Sites (Links to articles and portals)
Refuse and Resist
The Democracy Center
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Amnesty International USA
American Civil Liberties Union
Stew Albert's Yippie Reading Room
Stoney Burke Speaks!
Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films (videos and links to films on current events)

Edgy Reactionary
Michael Savage .com ("Home of the Savage Nation")
The Web of Politics (Go here for links to many conservative publications and sites)

Miscellaneous Edgy
The International Solidarity Movement (Site on Palestinian Policy)
Prison Policy Initiative (Progressive site on prison policy)
Prison Policy Info Center (An online information source about the politics of prison policy)
Anarchy Archives (An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism)
Open Directory on Religion and Spirituality: Opposing Views

READING AND WRITING RESOURCES

Hacker Handbook Homepage (MLA documentation, essay writing, research links, grammar rules, exercises and more)
LEO: Literacy Education Online (Good university site resource on the particulars of essay writing and MLA documentation)
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (In-depth resource on essay writing)
UVic Writer's Guide (Resource on essay writing and literary terms)
Hot list: Composition and Writing (Hot list of resources on grammar and writing)
Resources and Links for Writers and Writing Instructors (Many non-commercial English links from Rutgers)
OWL: Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (Excellent student and teacher resource, including handouts in many categories and MLA)
Reading Your Textbook (Good method for reading retention)
Reading and Understanding Texts (Another method with links to handouts on reading methods)
What is Critical Reading (Description of the elements of an approach to reading critically)
How to Read Your Essay Assignment (Excellent handout on how to read and the importance of reading essay assignments)
High School vs. College Writing (Helpful handout on the differences between these two sets of expectations)
Writing Skills and Writing Process (Handout on writing process with links to sample student paper)
Writing Skills Required for College (With links)
Developing Thesis Statements (Excellent handout on thesis statements)

RESEARCH PAPER SITES

Steps to Writing a Research Paper (Time frame and hints on process)
7 Steps to Effective Research (A helpful guide on research papers and research)
Search Strategy Tutorial (Helpful guidelines on how to be persistent with your search for sources)
Library Research Using Primary Resources (A definition of a "primary source" and list of good source materials)
Library and Internet Terminology (A dictionary of library and internet terms)
How to Broaden or Narrow Topic
Evaluating Web Pages
How to Critically Analyze an Information Source (Helpful guide to evaluating source material)
Documenting References (MLA) and Other Resources (Purdue Writing Lab on research papers)
Guide on How to List Sources on Works Cited (GO HERE for quick links on how to list sources)
Dictionaries, Style Manuals, Grammar Handbooks, Editing Resources (Purdue Writing Lab resources)
The Internet Public Library (Search for articles and resources on many topics including teens and youth)
Librarians Index to the Internet (Great resource to search the web by academic topic)
OWL: Purdue Internet Resources Page (Page of links to web sites for research)
UC Berkeley Tutorial on Internet Searching (Good resource on everything you need to know to find something on the internet)
How to Use a Library (Site with helpful links on using a library)
How to Formulate a Thesis and Avoid Plagiarism (Good essay on the college research paper)

TERM PAPER TOPICS
List of Argument Topics (Good list of current topics with links to readings and sample thesis statements)
Topics A-Z
List of Links for "Hot Topics" (Good site for resources if you find your topic here

CHECK THIS ONE OUT!!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/index.html (Excellent site to learn and use internet research)

LITERATURE SITES

Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection (Browse for sites on authors, titles of works, and literary periods)
Critical Reading of Works of Literature (Guide to literary terms and methods to critically read the literary genres)
Google Literature Sites (Google's collection of literature links)
Yahoo Literature Sites (Links to many literature sites of all kinds)
Online Literature Library (Online collection of full length works of literature)
Classic Literature (Clearinghouse for subjects and authors)
VirtualSalt (Glossary of literary terms)
Literary Terms (Another list of terms and their definitions)
Lynch, Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms ( One more glossary)

DICTIONARIES

Dictionaries: Foreign Language and English (Pick a language and find an online dictionary!)
Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary and Thesaurus
ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus Search Form (Great automated thesaurus from the University of Chicago for synonym searches)
yourDictionary.com (A dictionary and thesaurus that links you to any kind of dictionary that you can think of)
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html (Spanish to English/English to Spanish Dictionary)

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ESL RESOURCES

Chabot College ESL Resource List (Excellent page with links to many useful ESL web sites and campus resources)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html (Links to lots of online resources for ESL students and teachers)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html (Many other handouts on grammar, business writing, research in handouts directory)
Grammar Bytes (Index of grammar terms)
Bartleby.com (Guide to English Usage and links)

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