Writing and literature resources

General

Arts & Letters Daily is virtually a one-stop site for current writing. Among its resources are:     brief summaries and links to current articles, essays, and book reviews     links to other sources of book reviews     links to magazines, literary and otherwise     links to columnists     links to world newspapers

• Literary resources on the Net [Jack Lynch]
• A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature [Chris Flack]
• BookSpot.com links to literary resources
• Book Wire
• New York Times Book Reviews
• Washington Post Book World
• Los Angeles Times Book Reviews
• New York Review of Books
• Chicago Tribune Book Reviews
• The Times Literary Supplement

Publishers and publications

• OCLC WorldCat (restricted to faculty, staff, and students at The University of Memphis)
• Books in Print [Bowker]

Usage and grammar

• Online writing centers
  • University of North Carolina Writing Center
  • Resources at Writing Center, George Mason University
  • The Writing Center at Harvard
  • Dartmouth Writing Program
  • The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • Center for Communication Practices at Rensselaer
• The Elements of Style, 1918 classic by William Strunk, Jr. [Bartleby]
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online (dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English, medical)
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th ed.
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed.
• Dictionary.com
• yourDictionary.com
• The Grammar Lady [Mary N. Bruder]
• Plain Language Action Network [National Partnership for Reinventing Government]
• The Word Detective [Evan Morris]
• Familiar Quotations, 10th edition (1919) of the classic by John Bartlett [Bartleby]
• The American Language, H. L. Mencken’s classic study [Bartleby]
• Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest home page (“It was a dark and stormy night . . .”)

Electronic texts

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography [Robert W. Bailey, Jr.]
• Digital Librarian links for electronic texts and primary sources [Margaret Vail Anderson]
• Electronic texts collections [Hanover College History Department]
• ALEX, a catalog of electronic texts on the Internet [Infomotions.com]
• eServer [Iowa State University]
• Scholars’ Lab (formerly eText Center) [University of Virginia]
• Great Books Index (based on Great Books of the Western World)
• Bartleby: Great Books Online
• Project Gutenberg
• OBI, The Online Book Initiative
• eBooks@Adelaide [Adelaide University]
• Online Literature Library
• On-Line Books Page [Pennsylvania]
• Bibliomania
• Internet Classics Archive (mainly Greco-Roman) [MIT]
• Perseus Digital Project [Tufts]
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library [Calvin College]
• Online Medieval and Classical Library [University of California-Berkeley]
• The Harvard Classics [Bartleby]
• JSTOR (full-text scholarly journals)
• Web Sites of Bibliographical Interest [Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia]

Copyright

• U.S. Copyright Office [U.S. government]
• Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17 of U S. Code)
• Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights (Title 37 of Code of Federal Regulations)
• Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies [Association of Research Libraries]
• The Copyright Website
• Crash Course in Copyright [University of Texas System]
• Conference on Fair Use [Association of Research Libraries]
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Works, a guide to copyright law prepared by Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems [CETUS]
• Copyright and Fair Use [Stanford University Libraries]

Academic integrity and the problem of plagiarism

The University of Memphis Code of Student Conduct - Academic Dishonesty defines academic misconduct as “all acts of cheating, plagiarism, forgery and falsification.” It continues about plagiarism: “The term ’plagiarism’ includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full or clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials.”

The policy of The University of Memphis on plagiarism is contained in the  Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities (Student Handbook) and is summarized in Code of Student Conduct — Academic Dishonesty. The specific policy of the Department of History is contained in its document Policy about academic misconduct.

The University of Memphis has secured a site license for faculty to use TurnItIn to maintain a high level of academic integrity in written work by students. Faculty members who wish to use the program must request access from the Advanced Learning Center. (See also the Department of History page about TurnItIn.)

If you are a student, you need to know how to avoid plagiarism; if you are a faculty member, you need to know how to prevent it and how to detect it when it occurs. The following documents should be helpful.

• Advice about plagiarism and using sources [Department of History, The University of Memphis]
• Plagiarism [University Libraries, The University of Memphis]
• How to Avoid Plagiarism [Undergraduate Academic Conduct Committee, Northwestern University]
• Avoiding Plagiarism [Purdue Online Writing Lab]
• Indiana University-Bloomington has three useful resources:
  • Plagiarism: What It Is and How To Recognize and Avoid It [Writing Tutorial Services]
  • How to Recognize Plagiarism [College of Education]
  • What is Plagiarism at the University of Indiana? (10-item self-quiz) [Ted Frick]
• Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism [Duke University Libraries]
• Plagiarism.org: The Learning Center [TurnItIn.com]
• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices [Council of Writing Program Administrators]
• Plagiarism Tutorial [University Libraries, University of Southern Mississippi]
• Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University [Rutgers University Libraries]
• Sources and Citations at Dartmouth College
• Plagiarism [Washington State University Libraries]
• Plagiarism: Curricular Materials for History Instructors [American Historical Association]
• How to Detect and Demonstrate Plagiarism [American Historical Association]
• Plagiarism-by-Paraphrase Risk Quiz [Arnold Sanders and Susan Garrett Weiss]
• What is Plagiarism? [History News Network]
• Center for Academic Integrity
• Plagiarism and the Web [Bruce H. Leland]
• Plagiarism in Colleges in USA [Ronald B. Standler]
• Student Plagiarism in an Online World [Julie J.C.H. Ryan]
• The Plagiarism Resource Site at The University of Virginia [Lou Bloomfield]
• Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism [University of Alberta Libraries]
• Electronic Plagiarism Seminar [Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY]
• Virtual Salt: Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers [Robert Harris]
• Plagiarism Prevention Resources [Penn State University]
• Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You [Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University]
• Thinking and Talking About Plagiarism [Nick Carbone]
• Plagiarism [Sharon Stoerger]
• Plagiarism [Wikipedia]

Citing electronic information

• World Wide Web Virtual Library in Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources [Anita Greenhill]
• Citing Primary Sources [Library of Congress]
• Citing Electronic Information [Internet Public Library]
• Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources [University of Alberta Libraries]
• Citing Electronic Information in History Papers [Maurice Crouse]

This page is maintained by Maurice Crouse
Last modified 12 April 2012