Essay One and Essay Two
How to Write Better Essays: Some Writing Resources on the World Wide Web
- Begin by reading a page on how to study and write essays from Athabasca University.
- Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on Writers and Writing Instructors is a thorough index of everything you need to consider when you begin writing your essays
- Consult Purdue's extensive handouts on all topics relating to writing, grammar, punctuation, and publishing as well as their Resources for Writers
- How to do close readings of texts describes a certain kind of essay writing, explication de texte
- How to use quotations in your essay is a very useful page that discusses how to introduce and integrate textual evidence
- Consulting MLA style for documentation will help you document your research when you write your essays.
- More information on MLA style for documentation
- Rhetorical Figures discusses classical rhetoric and has some applications to poetry as well as essay writing
- Some Dictionaries of Literary Theory and Related Areas can help you identify methods of analysis as well as terms that are helpful when you read and write.
- The Johns Hopkins Enclyclopedia of Literary Theory and Criticism: This is an excellent resource that is available by paid subscription (and is remarkably inexpensive!). How to subscribe...
- Words of Art: A glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts is a glossary relevant to the study of painting and film
