The New York Times/on-line edition of one of America's premier
newspapers
http://www.nytimes.com
The Atlantic Monthly on-line edition of the monthly magazine that
has won
more national writing awards than any other magazine in print
http://www.theatlantic.com
A summary of front page stories currently in the news
http://www.frontpagemag.com
A superior site for reference materials including thesaurus,
dictionary,
quotations, and a myriad of other literary sources (click
"reference" tab)
http://www.bartleby.com
Glossary of rhetorical terms with examples
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Terms used in analyzing fallacies of argumentation (faulty logic)
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies
A compendium of over 700 newspaper columnists
http://www.blueagle.com
A second site for editorials: lists writer's most current topic
as well as
providing links to many prestigious national papers
http://www.commentators.com
A superior site for many on-line novels, short stories, plays,
and poetry
http://classicreader.com
Writing lab: university writing lab assistance on all writing
issues
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/595/01/
An excellent source for help in many areas of writing, especially
essays
http://slc.berkeley.edu/nns/l2writing/process/types.htm
An easy, foolproof way to cite the sources in MLA or AP style.
http://citationmachine.net/
A collection of political cartoons on a wide range of subjects.
http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/
College Board
http://wwwcollegeboard.com/student/index.html?student
A website dedicated to statistics and documented resources to
support the
study of this issue.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
SAT / PSAT Preparation
http://www.collegeboard.com/testing/sat/skillsmap/
Crucible prereading site based on the Salen witchcraft accusations
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/
Practice for all three sections of the PSAT (Verbal, Mathematics,
and Writing). For practice on the Writing section, do
Identifying Sentence Errors, Improving Sentences, and Improving
Paragraphs.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/psat/prep/iderrors/iderrors.html