ENG 310A: On-Line Resources
Drawn largely from Professor L. M. Matheson's list of SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES FOR EARLY, MEDIEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE BRITAIN , which provides still more interesting, useful, and fun sites. Not all the categories have sites listed yet, but I will occasionally add links as the semester continues. These resources are not required material for the course, but supplementary, intended to provide useful assistance or enjoyable further readings about things that catch your attention. I encourage you to surf around here as a way of becoming more familiar with electronic literary resources, from both professional and lay sources. You may find useful material on a given topic both under the general categories and under specific authors or periods and genres. To use this page effectively, you should not stop with the first thing you find, and you should try to evaluate the relative authority and likely value of sites you encounter. There are certainly many helpful sites posted by amateurs (in the best sense of the word) or as course projects and papers, but not everything on the Web is equally reliable and you need to read with an informed critical intelligence just as you do with print materials. Similarly, there are some unhelpful, esoteric, and incorrect materials posted to the Web by academic professionals, so you should evaluate what you find even in sites with ".edu" in the URL. Remember that anything you decide to use from the Web in any piece of writing must be cited appropriately, just as with print materials. Not doing so constitutes plagiarism, which carries serious academic penalties. Remember that sophisticated search engines, used correctly, can make it even easier to identify Web sources than sources in print, if passages or papers have the flavor of plagiarism. Don't even | |
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