Writing

Starting points Some crucial differences between high school and college writing 4 things to do before you start writing an essay The basics: the anatomy of a good essay (University of York) Writing a Thesis Statement for a Literature Paper Purdue's Online Guide to Writing about Literature Writing advice from Cambridge (focused on philosophy, but still applicable) Constructing an Argument (University of York)	Quoting and documentation The 4-Step Process for Integrating Quotations Advice on Quoting Purdue's Online Guide to MLA Documentation The MLA Style Center MLA Citation Guide -- Color-Coded
Close reading Close Reading (from University of York) Close reading a text and avoiding pitfalls How to do a close reading Steps for close reading Close Reading of a Literary Passage Close Reading Guide Close Reading Close Reading Example What Is Close Reading? Reading a Poem: 20 Strategies	Avoiding problems in logic and argument Logical Fallacies Rhetological Fallacies (at Information is Beautiful) An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (on logical fallacies and how to avoid them)
	Annotated bibliographies and research How to prepare an annotated bibliography (Cornell) Annotated Bibliographies (UW-Madison) Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue OWL) How to expand your research
Nuts and bolts (sentence-level help) How to be more concise Academic Phrasebank Tweed's Ever-Expanding Compendium of Academic Verbs Why it's good to vary sentence length How to write paragraphs	Other Stephen Fry on Language How writing changes your brain the more you practice On Plagiarism (Dr. Chip Rogers) A Memo to Students on Cheating Checklist of Rationality Habits Nobody Cares How Hard You Work Why it's better to take notes by hand 20 Things Students Say Help Them Learn

Resources for Eighteenth-Century Studies
ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online):  only available to TTU students
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: an Overview
A Pack of Useful Lies about the Eighteenth Century
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century English Vocabulary (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
Neoclassicism:  An Introduction:  Short introduction at the Victorian Web
Neoclassicism:  Short introduction at Brooklyn College
Historical Outline of Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, prepared by Alok Yadav of George Mason University
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Timeline at Longman Anthology website (click the link at top left for Restoration)
Timeline for the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century at MyLiteratureKit
18thConnect:  Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Online
Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net:  Links page maintained by Jack Lynch at Rutgers
C18-L:  Resources for 18th-Century Studies Across the Disciplines:  Self-explanatory
James May's Bibliographical Resources for Eighteenth-Century Studies:  Part one of a series with links to the rest of the series
Selected Readings (an interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies)
Corvey Women Writers on the Web
Coffee-houses of London: short overview, with a map
The Bluestocking Circle at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
How to tell you're reading a Gothic novel (at the Guardian)

Book History Resources
Art and Books:  website for a course at Charles Sturt University, bringing together a number of resources
The British Book Trade Index
British Fiction 1800-1829:  A database of production, circulation, and reception
British Library Database of Bookbindings
Book Arts Web
Book History Online:  International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
Book History Resources at Ptak Science Books: extensive collection of links
Book History Timetable
Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts (CELM)
Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh
Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Creating the Page:  video showing the process of printing a page on the Columbian press (created by Dr. Shef Rogers's Bibliography class)
Digital Books about Books:  from Oak Knoll Press
The History and Future of the Book:  a select bibliography compiled by Alison Muri of the University of Saskatchewan
Is It A Book?  a student-produced exploration of the possibilities of text, somewhat whimsical in tone
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps:  The Printing Press in a Changing World:  Non-scholarly (see the author's disclaimer) but a nice accessible intro / springboard
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
Print History links at the Voice of the Shuttle
Reading Experience Database
Reading:  Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
Reception Study Society
Research Guide for the History of Books and Printing at the New York Public Library
Sarah Werner's list of book history resources
Scottish Book Trade Index
SHARP:  Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Unseen Hands:  Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers:  online exhibition at Princeton University Library
Women and Books:  online exhibition at the Hunterian Library, University of Glasgow