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LaGuardia Community College Department of English Resources
These resources and sites provide you with additional information about LaGuardia Community College Department of English policies and guidelines.
- Introduction to English 099 Sheet
- Introduction to English 101 Sheet
- Introduction to English 102 Sheet
- Introduction to English Electives Sheet
- MLA Guidelines
- Statement of Plagiarism
Visit the web site for New York Stories, a nationally distributed literary magazine, founded in 1998 and housed at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. The magazine features contemporary short fiction, set anywhere, essays dealing with New York City and interviews with established writers and film directors. Professor Daniel Caplice Lynch, editor in chief.
LaGuardia Community College Testing Resources:
These sites, for the CUNY CPE and ACT Exams, provide resources and information useful for you in preparing for these exams.
CUNY Proficiency Exam Information
LaGuardia Community College Programs of Interest:
The ePortfolio site explains the ePortfolio Initiative at LaGuardia Community College. It also provides instructions and support materials for beginning an ePortfolio.
This site explains the First Year Experience and the First Year Experience Academies. It provides useful links for support services for first year students. It also contains links to the web site for the Common Reading.
Learning Communities at LaGuardia Community College
This site explains the different learning community experiences available at the college along with schedule and registration information.
Help with Grammar and Paper Writing
The following six sites provide grammar and style explanations, interactive exercises, and on-line support for writing papers. This information supplements the information you receive in class and the grammar and style information available in the Department of English’s official handbook, Keys for Writers.
Capitol Community College Foundation
How to Write an Original Thesis by Michael Barsanti at University of Pennsylvania
Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style
Purdue University’s On Line Writing Lab (OWL)
LaGuardia Community College Library’s On-Line Resources for English (Literature):
LaGuardia’s library offers extensive on-line databases for students researching literary topics. Many of these resources are accessible to LaGuardia students via the World Wide Web from any location. Students can access these resources by visiting the library’s website and following the directions for either on-campus or off-campus research.
Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry
Essay and General Literature Index
Gale Literary Index
Humanities Index
Literature Resource Center (with MLA Bibliography)
Magill On Literature Plus
MLA International Bibliography
Oxford English Dictionary
Scribner Writers Series
Twayne Authors Series
On-Line Research in English and Related Disciplines:
The following resources provide a small glimpse of the resources available on the Internet. As with any source, you should carefully evaluate the validity of your sources.
A Student’s Guide to Researching with the World Wide Web
This site is a wonderful place to begin Internet research. Created by Craig Branham, of St. Louis University, the guiding questions on this site assist you in evaluating the validity and usefulness of Internet sites.
African American Writers: eTexts
This site contains links to on-line texts for use in the classroom, biographies, and information on African American texts.
African American Women Writers
Compiled by the Schomburg Center, this site provides extensive research information.
This site provides brief biographies and selected links to major American poets.
The American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and University of Michigan Press)
This site offers an extensive database of American Poetry published before 1920.
Compiled by Brenda Hoffman, this site offers an overview of Asian American Literature, bibliographies and links to on-line resources.
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
This site offers a searchable database of Romantic and Victorian poetry.
A Celebration of Women Writers
An extensive list of international women writers, brief biographies and bibliographies.
Dumbarton Oaks is a research facility with an extensive collection in Byzantine studies, the history of landscape architecture, and Pre-Columbian studies.
EPC provides links to digital poems and the University of Buffalo’s work around electronic poetry.
Provides an extensive overview of feminist theory and resources for studying contemporary feminist theory.
The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is home to the largest collection of printed Shakespearean works.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Sponsored by Georgetown University, this site provides extensive links to information about medieval life and texts.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world with 128 million items including 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. The library has a searchable on-line databases and on-line collections.
Maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers University , this site serves as a portal for annotated links to literary resources, organized by major genres and countries. His main page, located at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/, also provides interesting links to topics relevant to his area of study, 18th Century English Literature.
Project Gutenberg provides access to texts that are no longer copyrighted. You can download the entire text onto your computer for your use. The site is searchable by author, title, and key word.
This annotated bibliography, by Marc Zimmerman, offers an overview of U.S. Latino Literature through 1991.
This site, maintained by Antonia Domínguez Miguela, contains a brief history of U.S. Latino Literature and articles about prominent texts.
Voice of the Shuttle is a meta-database of websites available on the Internet. It categorizes websites by discipline and provides brief annotations and links to the sites. Students in Department of English courses will find the “Literature (in English)” and “Literatures (Other Than English)” pages particularly useful.
An extensive collection of resources, biographies and bibliographies about women writers of color.
One of the oldest on-line literary publications, Web del Sol now provides a portal to other on-line literary magazines showcasing the best in contemporary fiction and poetry.
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