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Literature

Bartleby.com
An Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

The History Place:  Great Speeches Collection
The History Place covers more than 50 famous speeches from American and world speakers.

EServer.org: Accessible Writing
A unique website where writers, artists, editors, and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

Glossary of Poetic Terms
Features pronunciations, cross referencing, as well as numerous examples and quotes.

Great Books Index
From Aristotle to Shakespeare to Mark Twain, all the classics from every time period are listed here in an easy to use index.

Labyrinth Pedagogical Materials
Provides links to past and current pedagogical materials.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
A public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.

Luminarium
Contains English literature: early 17th century (1603-1660).

PAL : Perspectives in American Literature
A research and reference guide maintained by Dr. Paul Reuben, Professor of English at California State University Stanislaus.

Perseus Digital Library
An evolving digital library engineering interactions through time, space, and language.

Voice of the Shuttle
Provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online humanities resources and points toward the transformation of this discipline as it interacts with sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.




Grammar

Common Errors in English
Concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users.

English Works! Index
A general English site that provides free English tutoring, writing advice, and online writing and reading resources to undergraduate and graduate students.

Exercise Central
A large collection of editing exercises available online that provide practice for mastering the skills of editing grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Search activities and guides by word, paragraph, essay, and research paper level, take quizzes and participate in polls on this interactive site.

yourdictionary.com
Dictionaries including: language, multilingual, 'nyms & such, translation, specialty and a highly organized search.

Virtual Salt
This site contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices.

Languages

Englishpage.com
Advanced English lessons including weekly lessons; grammar, vocabulary, verbs (and more) workshops; dictionaries, and a thesaurus.

Learn Hebrew
Seventeen lessons and three appendices as well as resources sections.

Learn New Testament Greek
An evolving online textbook for beginning New Testament Greek.




Study and Research Guides

Documents in the News
Current events research organized alphabetically on everything from affirmative action to Nigerian religious riots to the 2000 Yugoslavian elections.

Practice Tests
Your Source for Free Practice Tests!  Here, you'll find a lot of resources and information about the test preparation process.  Hopefully you'll learn the right methods of preparing for the test in your future.

Research, Writing and Style Guides for Students  (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, CGOS, CBE)
Provides the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings.

Study Guides and Strategies
Information on preparing to learn, studying, classroom participation, reading skills, preparing for and taking tests, writing basics, math and science, and using the web.

Christian Resources

Bible Gateway
A free service for reading and researching scripture online, all in the language or translation of your choice.

Bible Study Tools
From Crosswalk.com, it contains a Bible search, online studies, projects, encyclopedias and more.

Blue Letter Bible
3,560,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves!

Credenda Agenda
Credenda Agenda is a bimonthly periodical exploring all areas of life from a Biblical, classical Protestant perspective.

Revival: Richard Riss
This home page serves as a source for information bearing upon Revival and Christianity in general.

SOON Online Magazine
This paper is designed to assist those who are learning English. It is written in easy English and has a restricted vocabulary of about 1500 words.

STAR 99.1 FM
Our ministry partner features the best in Contemporary Christian Music.

Gospelcom.net
Over 300 individual online ministries working to use technology and the Internet to reach the world with the message of Jesus Christ.



Irish Writing Resources

Free Irish Literature
Free short stories, E-texts & E-books from famous Irish authors.

Irish History on the Web
Links to a wide variety of information on Irish history.

Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
An exhaustive look into the above topics.

Irish Writers' Centre
Established to promote and assist in the development of contemporary Irish writing.