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Detailed online study guides by Professor Paul Brians, Washington State University, are available on:

• Things Fall Apart 
• The Joys of Motherhood
• The God of Small Things

Purdue's Writing About Literature page - Brief, basic discussion of what makes a good literature paper, what makes for a strong topic, and how to handle research. (Strongly recommended)

UNC (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Writing Center's Writing about Literature Handout describes helpfully some steps for planning and writing lit papers.  Even if you don't read it all, see at least the first step, "Demystifying the process".

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General Writing Sites: Here are some Websites that you may find handy for searching the Web, evaluating sources, and writing your papers.

Purdue's Online Writing Lab - Remarkably comprehensive and helpful, this site links to instructional handouts on everything a writer may be concerned about from planning and revising essays to handling problems with research papers, punctuation, and sentence construction. Here is the main set of Handouts Listed by Topic. It also contains help for ESL Writers as well as help on Searching the Internet--and much more!

UNC Writing Handouts - Organized in 4 areas: "Writing the Paper," "Grammar & Mechanics,"  "Specific Writing Assignments" & "Writing in Specific Fields," this excellent site covers every aspect of writing you could have a question about.

The Writing Center at Harvard University has a Writing Resources link that includes very reliable handouts on academic writing.  See especially Overview of the Academic Essay and How to Do a Close Reading.

Indiana University's Writing Pamphlets - This helpful site provides information on MLA format for citing sources (including online sources) as well as help with such basic issues as writing thesis statements, paragraphs and topic sentences, and book reviews.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center - This site also offers a well-organized, searchable collection of detailed "handouts" on specific types of academic writing.

Cornell's Evaluating Research Sources Page - This site from Cornell's Olin Library links to solid, handy advice on how to evaluate the sources you find, both library sources and Internet sources. It helps you differentiate among scholarly and other periodicals.

To go to the course website, click: Eng 226 Welcome

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