WebRefs: LA: Language Arts

LANGUAGE ARTS WEB REFERENCES

Hillman BU EduWeb Intro Page
Hillman EduTech Research Notes Site
Course Online Reference Text for BU Education Technology Courses

List for online writing labs
Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Bartlett's Quotations
Quotations Page
ePals Classroom Exchange
Instant Mult-Language Translation
Lives: The Biography Resource
Personal Library of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 1875-1950 ~ 1,100 volumes: covers, bios, links, reviews
A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEWSPAPERS
Journalism Assignments and References
Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites
Old Time Radio Site: History ~ Logs ~ Articles ~ Scripts
Perdue University Online Writing Lab OWL: Professional Writing ~ Across the Curriculum
Perdue University Online Writing Lab OWL: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Perdue University Online Writing Lab OWL: English as a Second Language
Honolulu Advertiser Online
Honolulu Star Bulletin
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
OneLook Dictionaries: 4.8 million words indexed in 790 online dictionaries
Sherlockian.net: All about Holmes, the master sleuth: family, colleagues, arch enemy, cases
Behind the Name: Etymology and history of first names ~ a name is indeed more than identification
American Folklore: folktales, Indian myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore, ghost stories
Wilton's Word and Phrase Origins: etymological insight into our language and how it got that way
American Literature On The Web
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students
Interesting Things for ESL Students
Activities for ESL Students
Self-Study Grammar Quizzes
Shakespeare Web
RhymeZone: rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones and searches
Scorpio Tales ~ "short stories with a sting in the tail."
Yard Haunter ~ The Guide to Haunting your Yard for Halloween
Halloween Online ~ Special Effects and Props
Interesting Stories and Facts
The Moonlit Road ~ Scary Stories
Michelangelo Buonarroti ~ "one of the greatest artists of all time"
Encyclopedia Mythica ~ A complete source for 'mythology, folklore, legends, and more.
Palaver Tree Online: An Online Community of Oral History ~ family, tribal and cultural history
Warrior Librarian - The Zine for Librarians Who Refuse to Be Classified
Heart Touchers, Quotes about Writing
International Children's Digital Library
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
Between the Lions ~ Get wild about reading ~ PBS literacy skills of children ages four through seven
Aesop's Fables Online Collection
Chambers's Book of Days ~ Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar," 1879.
Got Milk?
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
ClassicReader.com: Read all the great Classics
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
AncientScripts.com
SparkNotes are study guides written exclusively by college students and recent graduates.
Online e-Text Editions of well-known books

SEARCH ENGINES	DOWNLOADS and REFERENCES	ONLINE MEDIA
Google MSN Search Yahoo Alta Vista HotBot Dogpile All The Web Ask Jeeves Lycos Excite Meta-Search Meta Crawler Beaucoup	Netscape 4.7 & 4.8 (with Composer ~ good prep for FrontPage) WS_ftp LE (Free 30-day trial) Netscape 7 with newer & different Composer Software from TUCOWS Eudora Lite Free Download Online Conversions Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus	CBC BBC ~ CNN Newsroom: Newspapers... and more National Post Brandon Sun Globe and Mail Winnipeg Free Press Macleans Newsmagazine eBay Auction Amazon Canada Chapters / Indigo Reuters NY Times: College Edition Radio-Locator: Thousands of Stations

eText Sources

Classic Reader dot com: eTexts ~ Bio ~ Photo
Abacci Books
Violet Books Art Gallery: Lost Race, etc.
The Book Safari
AbeBooks.com
Bibliopoly Database of Rare and Antiquarian Books
Bookfinder.com
alibris.com
Globusz Publishing Online Books

TomFolio.com
AbookSearch.com
BiblioDirect.com
BookAvenue.com
Choosebooks.com
BarnesandNoble.com
Amazon Books
Lantern Slides
omen Authors: Online Text
eBook Download Source

More eText Sources

The DMOZ Etext Online List
The Etext Archives
GasLight
Gutenberg Titles
Gutenberg Site
University Of Virginia's Ebook Library
Mcmaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Books On-Line University of Pennsylvania
SunSite
Bibliomania
The Bralyn Archive
California Heritage
Canada's Digital Collection
The Celebration of Women Writers
Early Canadiana Online
HTI Public Domain Modern English Collection
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Litrix Reading Room
The National Library of Canada.
The OnLine Electronic Publishing Collection
The Oxford Text Archive
Free Online novels
Classic Online Novels
ArthursClassicNovels.com
Classic Horror Short Stories
Violet Books Master Index
Page By Page Books
Questia: The World's Largest Online Library
Bibliomania
BlackMask

FILM SOURCES

American Film Institute
Internet Movie Database
Classic Images

AUTHORS REFERENCE
American Authors On The Web
American Authors General Reference
Authors
Robert E. Howard Bookshelf
Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated Bibliography

**COURSE REFERENCES ON THE WEB**
**Links collated by Bill Hillman**
ED: Education/Instruction	WEB: Webpage Creation	SS: Geography/History	SM: Science & Math
LA: Language Arts	ETH: Ethnic/Aboriginal/North	AE: Arts & Entertainment	Faculty of Education Refs

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