Resource Links for English

Resources to help you write better:

 I've compiled some websites that may help you in your English course whether 
you need help:
- with reseach on specific authors, poets, and playwrights (listed 
alphabetically by surname);
- with background research on a specific period of literature;
- online version of the book;
- organizing your ideas and brainstorming; or 
- writing and revising your papers

Guidelines to help you to write your papers in better English.
Owl Handouts: Writing Style and Technique

Graphic Organizers

Mindmapping How To

How to make a mind map
Mindmapping

Venn Diagrams

3 circle Venn Diagram

Telling a story?  Need to create a plot diagram.  Try this tool:
Plot Diagrams

Want to plot your hero's journey?  Try this tool:
The Hero's Journey

Background research on Joseph Conrad and his novella, Heart of 
Darkness websites:
Joseph Conrad Society

Heart of Darkness etext

George Orwell biography and his novel, Nineteen Eighty-four 
research sites:
George Orwell 

Newspeak Site (interactive Nineteen Eighty-Four Site)
Orwell's Newspeak 

Orwell's Newspeak Dictionary

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
William Shakespeare's Internet

Shakespeare Resource Centre

Absolute Shakespeare

Hamlet Online text

Background research onGeorge Bernard Shaw and his play,  
Pygmalion websites:
Victorian Fashion

 
Victorian Culture

 
Victorian Culture

Kurt Vonnegut biography and his novel, Slaughterhouse Five 
research sites:
Kurt Vonnegut Official Website

Vonnegut quotations

Online text version of Slaughterhouse Five


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