Student/Teacher
Web Resources
Reference
Resources
Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web (MLA citation guidelines)
Hacker’s
Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age
The Online Oxford English Dictionary (available only to members of the Penn State community)
Writing
a Research Paper (help for students on topics from note-taking to
organization to grammar)
Literature
Resources
Biographical Index to the Elizabethan Theater (brief biographical notes on just about everyone related in any way to the development of professional theater in England, including writers, actors, managers, entrepreneurs, anti-theatrical pamphleteers, etc.)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (hosted by MIT) (the search functions are incredible!)
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today (provides background information on the development of theatrical practices in the west, as well as information on approaches to modern productions)
Interactive Bulfinch’s Mythology (Volumes 1, 2, and 3, covering Classic Greece up through Medieval Romances, very handy for students who need background on the myths of Western Civilization)
The Interactive Shakespeare Project (still developing but already has a good number of teaching aids)
Norton Topics Online (designed to accompany The Norton Anthology of English Literature, it provides background information on topics keyed to the literary periods covered in the two volumes of the anthology)
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research (THE humanities meta-site)
The Writing Company (an on-line catalogue that specializes, in part, in carrying Shakespearean performance and teaching videos)
Writing
Resources
Educational MOOs (a wonderful introduction, for both teachers and students, into the world of Multi-User Dungeons/Domains, Object-Oriented, which provide text-based virtual realities in which students must use written language to create the world around them)
Hypertext and Electronic Publishing “links pertaining to hypertext and certain aspects of scholarly electronic publishing in literature and rhetoric and composition”
Kairos: An Online Journal for Teachers of Writing in
Webbed Environments
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) (with much helpful information for both teachers and students)
Hypertext Fiction and Poetry on the Web
Eastgate Systems’ Reading Room (Eastgate Systems is the foremost publisher of hypertext fiction, and they market the hypertext-creation software Storyspace. Their Reading Room publishes original hypertext works designed for the web rather than for CD or disks.)
Frame (The literary journal of trAce, a British online writing community)
Iowa Review (The new--and impressive--hypertext annex of the excellent literary journal)
New River (A web review of original hypertext fiction, but typically only one work each issue is in hypertext—the majority of works are simply poems or short fiction posted on the web)
PubSphere (Brown University's hypertext magazine, stemming from Brown’s long-standing and outstanding hypertext-fiction workshops)
Salt Hill Review (A hypertext literary magazine, a bit more
“alternative” in overall subject matter than others)
