English 315: Workshop in Advanced Composition

Resources

Creating a Student Web Account

• http://web.mala.bc.ca/it/students/index.htm: Instructions for setting up a web account from the Malaspina computer labs.

HTML Resources

• Neil MacMillan's HTML Help Centre
• Barebones Guide to HTML: by Kevin Werbach.
• Yale's Web Design Manual: Formal HTML style guide.
• HTML Accessories for Download: html editing software from Tucows.
• WebMonkey Web Developer's Site: Resources for HTML developers.
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: In Jakob Nielsen's influential Alertbox Series
• Web Pages that Suck: Join Vincent Flanders for an educational deconstruction of web page design
• Gif Wizard: A great tool for preparing your GIF images for on-line display.
• WebReview.Com: Excellent articles on HTML and webpage design
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Cool Text Generator
• Frames Tutorial
• Learning HTML: An extensive list of on-line tutorials.

For picking background, text and link colours, you can view a colour chart with hexadecimal code by clicking on the browser safe palette below:

Comprehensive English Web Sites

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• English Literature Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Voice of the Shuttle: Comprehensive English Literature Page
• Carnegie-Mellon's The English Server
• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
• Media and Communications Studies
• MediaStudies.com: Peter Clayton's contribution to critical thinking and the media.

Reference:

• Reference Room of the Internet Library
• The Virtual Reference Desk
• Webster Hypertext Dictionary
• Acronym and abbreviation list
• Quotations
• Jack Lynch's On-Line Literary Research Site
• SOURCES Information Directory

Writing:

• kairos: a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
• Professional Writing and Editing Web Site
• The ERIC Clearinghouse dedicated to providing educational materials, services, and coursework to parents, educators, students, and others interested in the language arts
• Uvic Writer's Guide

Subject-Related:

• Scope: An online journal of film resources from the University of Nottingham, UK.
• History and Film Site: David Hart's excellent film resource at the University of Adelaide.
• Advanced Composition
• Fiction
• Language and Linguistics
• Rhetoric

Library/Information Gateways

• Marlin: Malaspina Library Online
• WWW Virtual Library
• Clearinghouse of Resources on the Internet (UMich)
• Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue)
• Univ. of Waterloo Electronic Library
• Research Collection at Indiana Univ.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
• Ready Reference Resources (UAlberta)
• Library of Congress (& Catalogue & Thomas)
• National Library of Canada
• CARL Uncover (contents of journals)
• Subject based information
• Rob Kobakoff's Inter-Links Reference
• Barbara Gellis Shapiro's News Researcher's Page
• Read All About It: Evolution of newspapers from papyrus to online by journalist Jean Jantzen.
• Internet Public Library
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (US)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lists of Lists
• Mailing Lists, Publicly Accessible
• Liszt Mailing List Directory
• Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (Kovacs)
• Usenet FAQ Archives
• Top Ten Internet Resources (by categories)
• The Online World Resources Handbook

Canadian Resources

• Culture-Net : Electronic Clearinghouse for Canadian cultural industries
• Maple Syrup Simmering: Canada's Online Literary Magazine
• Canadian CultureNetHome Page
• Canadian Federation for the Humanities
• Humanities Canada