Online Resources

English Resources

General Resources

Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Theasaurus
Oxford English Dictionary
Rhyming Dictionary
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The Elements of Style
Librarians' Internet Index

The Internet Public Library (hosted by Drexel University)
Encyclopedia Britannica
New York Times Book Review (requires free, one time registration)
The Literary Traveler
Visual Theasurus: (requires membership) Provides a visual representation of the relationships between synonyms.
Glossary of Literary Terms

Writing Resources

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Harvard Writing Resources
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
How to Critically Analyze Information Sources (hosted by Cornell University)
Evaluating Web Sites (hosted by Cornell University)
Writer's Web: (hosted by the University of Richmond) A free, public-access handbook
Darthmouth University Writing Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
Advice on Academic Writing (hosted by the University of Toronto)

eTexts

Project Bartleby (hosted by Columbia University)
Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes, the largest public reference work of literary criticism and history on the Internet. Originally published in 1907-1921.
Project Gutenburg
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: A collection of about 14,000 “classic” public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
The Luminarium, ed. Anniina Jokinen
The English Server (hosted by Carnegie Mellon University)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (hosted by Wheaton College)

Vocabulary

Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary

AP Resources

AP Central

Grammar Resoucres

The Internet Grammar of English
Guide to Grammar & Writing (hosted by the Capital Community College)
A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors: (hosted by NASA) A PDF (size: 283 KB)
Grammar Lists: (hosted by Georgia State University)

Literature Resources

eChaucer: (hosted the University of Maine) A collection of the essentials for the study of Chaucer in the digital age. The site will be built around a few practical tools, the complete works of Chaucer, a modern English translation, a complete concordance, as well as a glossary, image gallery, chronology, and glossary.
Kate Choplin - A ReAwakening: A companion to a PBS program on the life and work of nineteenth-century Louisiana author Kate Chopin
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: (hosted by MIT)
Shakespeare Illustrated: (hosted by Emory University)
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: An annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available online
The William Blake Archives: (hosted by the University of Virginia)
Blake Digital Text Project: (hosted by the University of Georgia-Athens)
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page
Walt Whiteman Notebooks (hosted by the Library of Congress)
Mark Twain At Large (hosted by the University of California Berkeley)
C.S. Lewis - Into the Wardrobe
The Jack London Online Collection: (hosted by Sonoma State University)
Literary Resouces on the Net: (hosted by Rutgers University)

Poetry

Poetry 180 (sponsored by The Library of Congress)
Poetry Daily
Poets.org
(hosted by the Academy of American Poets)
The Poetry Archives: a vast collection of non-copyrighted poems.
British Women Romantic Poets: (hosted by the Univeristy of California, Davis)
Representative Poetry Collection: (hosted by the University of Toronto)

Tips and Tricks

40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and Spelling Tips (AskOxford.com)
Cure writer's block (LanguageIsAVirus.com)
A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer: 15 Practical Tips (Lifehacker.com)
Common Errors in English
The 101 Best Websites for Writers

Online Stores

Amazon books
Barnes & Noble
Powell's Books
Borders
Half Price Books
Scholastic

Journalism

Professional newspaper publications

Tyler Morning Telegraph
Dallas Morning News
Houston Chronicle
Austin American-Statesman
The New York Times: Circulation of 1,627,062 (as of May 2007)
The Los Angeles Times: Circulation of 1,173,096 (as of May 2007)
The Washington Post
USA Today: Circulation of 2,524,965 (as of May 2007)
The Wall Street Journal: Circulation of 2,068,439 (as of May 2007)
Chicago Tribune
Current Front Pages

College newspaper publications

Yale Daily News: Oldest College Daily
The Lariat Online: Baylor University
Daily Wildcat: Arizona University
Daily Tar Heel: North Carolina At Chapel Hill
The Hilltop
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Texas Student Media
The Eye: Columbia on the Streets
Columbia Daily Spectator
The Red and Black
The Diamondback
The Observer