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Center for Talented Youth Online Learning
John's Hopkins University

MIT Open Courseware -- 700 Classes of Free Online Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Freshman Writing based on Literature
Rutgers University

Inheritance and the American Romance
Rutgers University

A Chicken For Every Road: Joking, Comedy, and Laughter
Supplemental Materials for "A Chicken..."
University of Pennsylvania

A Guide to the Terms of Classical and Renaissance Rhetoric
Brigham Young University

Links to Resources for Writing
Edgewood College

CyberLit 351 class
Rutgers University

Shakespeare Class English 215
Shakespeare Resources on the Web
L.A. Harbor College

English Literature II
L.A. Harbor College

Online English 102: Introduction to Literature
L.A. Harbor College

World Literature II
L.A. Harbor College

English Literature I
L.A. Harbor College

History and Development of the English Language
University of Texas at Arlington

Hamlet on the Ramparts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

College Reasoning on the Internet
DePaul University

Rhetoric from Aristotle to the Present
Armstrong Atlantic State University

Literary Nonfiction: History of the Personal Essay
from Greek philosophers through Contemporary Authors
Armstrong Atlantic State University

Ancient Rhetoric: An Introduction
Malcolm Heath, Leeds, England

History of Economics; Microeconomics
Boise State University

Comparative Economic Systems
Mt. Holyoke College

Economics in Popular Film
Mt. Holyoke College

Additional Economics Courses and Links
Mt. Holyoke College

Economics, Finance, and Law
(click on the drop down menu at the left)
St. John's University

Informational Society Notes
University of Texas

Information Research Strategies in History
University of Washington

The Holocaust in German History
 Other links to Holocaust sources
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
University of California, Santa Barbara

Contemporary History of Civilization
John Jay College

Reformation Europe (an outline for study only)
Yale University

Worlds of Late Antiquity
Georgetown University

World Civilization Virtual Library
Georgia College & State University

Culture and Personality:  Psychological Anthropology
University of Minnesota Duluth

Freshman Seminar: Understanding Global Cultures
University of Minnesota Duluth

World Prehistory: Foundations of Civilization
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Kinship and Social Organization
University of Manitoba

Ancient Middle America
University of Minnesota Duluth

Who Owns the Past?
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ancient American Civilizations:  Mesoamerica
University of Kansas, Lawrence

Ancient American Civilizations:  The Central Andes
University of Kansas, Lawrence

A History of Anthropology
University of Kansas

Introduction to Classical Mythology
University of Texas

Introduction to the Ancient World - Rome
University of Texas

Anthropology 102:  Archaelogy
Lane Community College

Cultural Anthropology
University of South Dakota

History: the Old South
Florida State University

Religion in the South
Wake Forest University

Religion in the United States
Wake Forest University

Augustine of Hippo
University of Pennsylvania

Understanding Religious Experience and Expression
Westminster College

Religious Studies (multiple courses; nonsectarian/interdisciplinary)
Marshall University

Apocalypticism and Modern Thinking
University of Denver

Understanding the Bible
Westminster College

Biblical Values
Bible Dialogue Institute

Astronomy 123:  Galaxies and the Expanding Universe
University of Oregon

Astronomy 122:  The Birth and Death of Stars
University of Oregon

Astronomy 121:  The Formation and Evolution of the Solar System
University of Oregon

Astronomy 103
George Mason University

List of Astronomy Links
University of California, Santa Barbara

The Solar System
Indiana University Northwest

Topics in Astronomy
University of Oregon

General Astronomy I
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Introduction to Space Sciences
Florida Institute of Technology

Methods and Instrumentation in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Florida Institute of Technology

Astronomy for Non-Science Majors
University of Mississippi

Introduction to the Sky and the Solar System
University of Virginia

Physics 104:  Astronomy
Gardner-Webb University

Introduction to Astrophysics
Duke University

Free Online Classes from the World Lecture Hall

Internet Investigations
Extensive list of resources

Teaching Shakespeare (grades 3-12)
Folger Shakespeare Library

Illustrated History for Children

Smithsonian Website in Coordination with Harcourt Science (gr. 1-6)

HTML Web Resources

Dr. Cohen's Picky Writing Rules  

See other Handouts
Ideas for Essays

1.Give your paper a title that is informative, not cute. The name of the work you are dealing with is NOT the title of your paper.

2. Do NOT underline/italicize your part of your own title. DO italicize all books, films, plays, and magazines. Short stories, film shorts, poems, one-act plays, and essays go in quotation marks.

3. Establish the context of your paper in the first sentence: "John Wayne first appears in Stagecoach with a rifle in hand." NOT: "Duke has a gun."

4. Give your paper a clear thesis sentence near the end of your first paragraph. GIVE YOUR PAPER A CLEAR THESIS SENTENCE NEAR THE END OF YOUR FIRST PARAGRAPH.

5. Do NOT use one or two sentences as a paragraph.

6. Each paragraph must stick to the subject introduced by the first sentence in that paragraph.

7. Do NOT misspell words. Misspelled words look dumb; do not look dumb. Use a dictionary or a literate friend to check your spelling.

8. A possessive without an apostrophe is a misspelled word..

9. One exception to rule 8: "Its" is the possessive of "it." "It's" is the contractions for "it is." Since I do not allow' contractions, you will never need to write "it's" on a paper.

10. Make the transition between your sentences and your paragraphs clear and logical. This task is the most difficult in writing, but, as you know, life is hard.

11. Do not use the first or second person -- I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours; your', your, yours -- unless I say you may.


12. Do not begin sentences in any of the following ways: "There are . . . " "There is . . ." "This is . . ."

13. Do not use "this," "these," 'that," "those," "which," or "it" unless the word has a clear and unmistakable antecedent nearby.

14. Never begin a sentence with 'this" unless you follow it immediately with a noun that reidentifies the idea to which you are referring.

15. Never use the word "being."

16. Support your assertions and ideas with concrete examples or quotes form the essay, story, poem, play, or film you are discussing or with a citation from some reliable source.

17. Avoid rhetorical questions.

18. Do not split infinitives (keep the "to" next to the verb). Write "I wanted quickly to drop the course' or "I wanted to drop the course quickly," NOT "I wanted to quickly drop the course."

19. Join independent clauses (clauses with a subject and a verb) either by using a comma and a conjunction, or by using a semicolon.

20. NEVER JUST SUMMARIZE OR PARAPHRASE. Remember that I have read it or seen it. I do not want to know what happened, I want to know your ideas about what happened.

21. Never use someone else's ideas (even in paraphrase) or words without giving proper credit.

22. Write about works of art in the present tense, since Hamlet will be stabbing Polonius and Charlie Chaplin with be eating his shoe long after your grandchildren have forgotten your name.

23. Avoid jargon (say "library"; do not say "instructional media center"); cliche (say "the professor is a conservative grouch"; do not say "the professor is an old fogey"); slang (say "the teacher is foolish"; do not say "the teacher is a gee"); and gobbledygook (say "now"; do not say " at this point in time.") Simpler is always better.

24. Use your smallest, most comfortable words; only high school teachers and William F. Buckley are impressed with big words.

25. Conclude your paper with a paragraph that explains the importance of your ideas to some larger understanding. Do not allow me to say "so what?"