"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
Winston Churchill
Resources
A collection of useful places to know about.
- Purdue University Libraries
- Digital Learning Collaboratory
- Information Technology @ Purdue (ITaP)
- Information regarding Purdue's VPN
- Purdue University Calendars
- Purdue University Directory
- Purdue University Regulations
- Dean of Student's Guide on Academic Integrity
- Purdue University Calender 2009-2010 (PDF)
- Purdue News Service
- The West Lafayette Public Library (and a map!)
Here are some departmental links.
- Purdue English Department
- Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP)
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Dino Felluga's Guide to Critical Theory
- Parlor Press
Resources on rhetoric and composition from outside of Purdue.
- Silva Rhetorica: The Forest of Rhetoric
- M.L.A. Online's Resources
- Eserver's Rhetoric and Composition
- Robert A. Harris' Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Rhetoric Society of America's Resources
- Photography Tips on Composition
- Franklin Insitute's Composition and Writing Hotlist
- The Online Speechbank: American Rhetoric
Links to help with grammar, syntax, and citation.
- Diana Hacker's Online Guide to Research and Documentation
- Paul Brians' superb Common Errors in English
- Examples of parenthetical citation (MLA)
- Examples citations of government documents (MLA)
- Assistance with annotating texts
- How to prepare an annotated bibliography
- Purdue OWL's guide to footnotes and endnotes
- Purdue OWL's guide to citing electronic sources
- Purdue OWL's explanation of changes within MLA format
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Purdue OWL's MLA 2009 Format and Citation Style Guide
- Slayeroffice Palette Generator
- Browser-Safe Color Palette Generator
- The 216 Color Webmaster's Palette
- Color in Motion
- "Color Meanings and Colors that Go Together"
- The Artcyclopedia
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The Art Renewal Center (one of the web's largest online art museums)
- The Web Gallery of (European) Art
- The Timeline of Art History (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- The British Museum
- Documentary Photography in the United States
- A Brief History of Political Cartoons
Need a news article or an editorial? Try one of these excellent periodicals.
- The Indianapolis Star
- The New York Times
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Chicago Tribune
- The Los Angeles Times
- The Minneapolis-St.Paul Star Tribune
- The Washington Post
- The Montreal Gazette
- The Ottawa Citizen
- The London Times
- Timeline of the American Revolution
- The Declaration of Independence
- Common Sense
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
- Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man
- France's Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women
- The United States Senate
- The United States House of Representatives
A bunch of helpful places to know about.
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (and thesaurus)
- The Elements of Style (1918 version)
- The Internet Public Library
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- The Internet History Sourcebook Project
- The Library of Congress
- The British Library
- Project Gutenberg
- Librivox
- National Library and Archives of Canada
- Vatican Library complete with Secret Archives and Online Museums
- The Victorian Web
- NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association
- a.k.a. (Literary pseudonyms)
- Aspects of the Victorian Book
- RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
- NINES: Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online
- The Literary Gothic
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
- British History Online