Research Resources: Literature & Writing
Listed below are selected resources to help you with your research. The first section details literature and writing resources selected from Woodbury's Databases. You must be affiliated with the university to access these services.

There is also a list of World Wide Web Resources, carefully selected by the reference librarians. These are available to everyone.


Woodbury's Databases: Literature & Writing

Electronic Collections Online (Part of FirstSearch) Full-text. Scholarly journals.
Literature Resource Center Full-text. Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis.
LitFinderFull-text. Includes PoemFinder, StoryFinder, and EssayFinder.
MagillOnLiteratureFull-text.Critical essays. Includes MasterPlots.
Oxford English Dictionary Full-text. Meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 500,000 words.
Project Muse Full-text. Scholarly journals. Arts, humanities, social sciences.
ProQuest Direct Full-text. Business, social sciences, and humanities.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select Full-text. Science, humanities, education, law, business.

World Wide Web Resources

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Provides a common sense guide to grammar and punctuation to those in need.

The Booklist Center
Links to award-winning and recommended lists.

The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae
"This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."

A Guide for Writing Research Papers
Prepared by the humanities department at Capital Community College in Hartford Connecticut and based on the Modern Language Association's documentation on research writing.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
A comprehensive guide to grammar and basic writing including information, quizzes, frequently asked questions, and a form which allows the audience to ask questions regarding unique grammar or writing related problems.

iLoveLanguages
"iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources."

Literary Resources on the Net
"This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics."

The Modern Word
This resource "focuses on 20th and 21st-century authors" through biographies, interviews, columns, links, etc.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Provides "a reliable treatment of the major components of the processes involved in writing for college courses." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

The On-line Books Page
"The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet."

Online Literary Criticism Collection
"The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."

Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
"The Purdue site offers online materials, links, and services designed to help writers, writing teachers, and undergraduate researchers." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Plagiarism
Annotated list of links to articles, case studies, examples, and detection tools.

Poetry Portal
"This site is a gateway to numerous sites that deal in one way or another with poetry - the writing of it, the interpreting of it, the theoretical issues that circle it, its connections to other art forms or ideas." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Project Gutenberg
A project that continuously provides electronic versions of paper editions of books within the public domain.

Script Secrets Script Library
Links to several free scripts and screenplays on the web.

The Text Doctor
Provides a collection of writing-related reference resources.

Writing@CSU
Although many of the links provided here require a login, this site also provides a useful collection of publicly available resources for college and university writers.

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