Dictionary & Thesaurus

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (will pronounce words, too!)
• The Oxford English Dictionary (requires Cerro Coso password from LRC)
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus

Essay-Writing

• Nuts & Bolts Guide to College Writing

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

• University of Victoria's Writer’s Guide

• Principles of Composition

• Advice on Academic Writing (and Reading, too)

• Paragraph Development and the Use of Quotations

• Developing Coherent Paragraphs

Writing about Literature 

• Purdue University, "Writing about Literature"

• Univ. North Carolina Writing Center’s “Writing About Literature”

• Writing Papers of Literary Analysis

British Literature

• Student Resources to Accompany the Longman Anthology of British Literature
• Timeline of British Literature, Politics, and Culture
• Chronological List of Literary Periods (not exclusively British, but includes useful information on Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary periods)
• Lit Links (useful guides to essays, poetry, fiction, drama, and critical theory)
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Strangers to Us All (how to read poetry, a beginner's guide to poetry, classical essays on poetry, nearly everything on poetry!)
• Romantic Circles (one of the best web resources for Romanticism)
• Victorian Research Web (always the first place to go for Victorian research)
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research

A Clockwork Orange

• Glossary of NADSAT Language

• Anthony Burgess about A Clockwork Orange

The Awakening

• Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening (PBS)
• Electronic copy of The Awakening

Guide to Style Information

• The Elements of Style

• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English

• Wordiness

Grammar & Editing

• Guide to Grammar & Writing  

• Punctuation Made Simple  

• 11 Rules of Writing

• Exercise Central

Guide to Research Writing & Documentation Guides

• Formatting Word instructions

• Cerro Coso’s Learning Resource Center

• Avoiding Plagiarism

• Bartleby’s Great Books Online  

• Research & Documentation (MLA)

• The Bedford Researcher (see Tutorials and Writing Links)

• Research & Reference

Reading 

• Online exercises for Ten Steps for Advancing College Reading Skills

• Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing

• Reading Poetry

• How to Read Essays, Poetry, Fiction, and Drama