This section has links to literature resources, quotations, poetry, writing, and plagiarism.  

Literature

Bartleby.com

Literature, reference, and poetry.  Very useful, comprehensive site. (Bartleby the Scrivener is a short story by Herman Melville).

English Literature on the Web

Link to pages on British and American authors.  Click on 'General' for hundreds of literature links. This is from the home page of Mitsuharu Matsuoka, a professor at Nagoya University, Japan.

Project Gutenberg

The project is scheduled for completion at the end of 2001, with 10,000 books online--and it's all free. These etexts are mainly in the public domain, so most were published prior to 1923. Help with downloading books is available at the site. 

SparkNotes.com

This good general reference site has summaries and analyses of well-known literary works.   These study guides are not meant to take the place of actually reading the work, but they're good introductions and reviews. Links to homework help in other subjects are also offered at this site.

PinkMonkey

347 literature summaries, 1800 classic online texts, study links and help, SAT prep, access to state testing resources...in all, over 20,000 pages on content.  You need to register at this site (not a big deal). The literature summaries can be read online for no charge, or you can purchase a downloadable version. No pop-up ads at this site!

The Works of the Bard

This Shakespeare site has its own search engine.  It's the oldest on the web, and really helpful if you're tracking down a quote, or looking for a particular passage.  Other Shakespeare sites this web author recommends are listed, too.

The Online Books Page

15,000+ listings are organized by author, title, and subjects.  These books, including Newbery, Nobel, and Pulitzer prize winners, are either out of copyright or are online with the permission of the copyright holder.  Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.

The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

A first-stop for finding literary criticism on the web. The collection contains 4699 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. 

Note:  There are MANY good literature sites on the web.  A good place to start looking is from one of the general reference sites, or the English department of any college or university.

Quotations

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

Author, subject, and keyword indexing to "The most notable quotations, 1950 to 1988." From Bartleby.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

This is the 1919 edition of this old, reliable.  From Bartleby.

Quotations Home Page

Many quotes, but lack of a good search engine may limit the usefulness of this site.  Try it if you know the author, or want to browse by subject or collection.  Some of the collections are humor, sarcasm, recent, from film, and "stupid quotes." (There is also a link here to an entertaining trivia site called "Trivial waste of Time.")

Starling Technologies Quotations Search

Uses nine different collections of quotations--from the motivational to the cynical--plus readers' contributed quotes. Search by phrase or author.  Includes access to the Lycos Rhyme Zone, for rhyming words, synonyms, and definitions.

Mathematical Quotations Server

This is a very popular site from the mathematics department at Furman University.  There's a random generator, or you can search by keyword.

A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

This collection is arranged in alphabetical order by the author's name.  No search engine. This page is part of the naturalSCIENCE Journals site.

Creative Quotations

 "Creative Quotations connects you to 50,000 quotations to inspire your creative thinking. CQ is one of the oldest, largest and most creative quotation resources on the Internet. You can search by keyword, source, topic and author (including her/his name, nationality, profession and birthday)."

Poetry

Academy of American Poets Poets.org

Includes critical essays, biographies of more than 200 poets, nearly 600 poems, and RealAudio clips of 80 poets reading their work.

Internet Poetry Archive

The archive includes the work of living poets from around the world. From the University of North Carolina.

The American Verse Project

American poetry prior to 1920.  Several search methods are available.  From the University of Michigan.

Representative Poetry Online

This site is edited by a professor from the University of Toronto and includes 2500 poems by 403 poets, from Caedmon (Old English) to present-day poets. Several indexes make it easy to search.  Includes a glossary of poetic terms and forms, and writings on poetry.

Poetry Magazine

New poetry every month.  The archives lists over 1300 poets and their work.  A listing of poetry contests is included, so you can get published yourself.  The magazine also accepts submissions.

Suggestions for other links are welcome. E-mail us from the home page.

Writing

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook.  Topics include discovering what you want to write, organizing, revising, and editing.

ElectraGuide

This site began as an experiment in using JavaScript to prompt student achievement.  Choose Topic-O-Rama if you need help finding a topic, Thesis Builder to help you create the most important sentence of your essay, or the Outliner option to generate the framework of your essay.

The Online Journalism Review

This is a web-based journal produced at the Annenberg School for communication at the University of Southern California. Check the "OJR Focus--High School." Their "Guide to Online Reporter Resources" is a good starting place for students who want to do journalism research online.

Guide for Writing Research Papers

This guide follows the Modern language Association (MLA) Handbook, but it also links to a guide that uses American Psychological Association (APA) format.  From Capital Community College in Hartford, CT.

Citation Style for Research Papers

Includes recommended methods for citing sources for APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago, and AMA styles, along with an explanation of which style should be used for the subject you are writing on (if your teacher has not specified a style).

Plagiarism

Taking someone else's words and presenting or publishing them as your own is wrong (not to mention illegal if you publish.)  It will earn you a failing grade for an assignment or class.  At many colleges it is grounds for expulsion.  These sites will help students define and avoid plagiarism and let you know what's available to teachers who want to prevent or detect it.

"Cut and Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism"

This paper is a few years old, so some of the information is outdated, but it gives a good overview of the subject.

Plagiarism Questions and Answers

How to quote and summarize to avoid plagiarism. Also helpful to teachers who are tracking down sources of plagiarism.

Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize & Avoid It

A very good source for students and teachers. Produced by Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University. Part of the Writing Resources Library.