Research

1. MLA Bibliography: The essential bibliographic resource for reserach in literature and language.
2. JSTOR: SMU only--ON-line access to full text of many journals
3. Project Muse SMU only--Full text of Johns Hopkins UP's 40 journals

4. SMU English Language and Literature online resources .  A multitude of  English related indexes, databases, reference resources, electronic journals, magazines, newspapers, and government information available to SMU students.

5. American Literature Archive:  Selected American authors: classic to contemporary. Links to websites and criticism about the authors. Gallery contains links to photos and images related to American authors and their works. Site also has an index of links organized by period.

6. Documenting the American South:  Contains digital collections of Southern literature, first-person narratives, and slave narratives. The site has additional primary cultural source materials related to the South.

7. Librarians' Index to the Internet:  Internet resources selected by public librarians. Each site is reviewed and evaluated. Provides a useful index with categories such as literature by region or country.  

8. Making of America (MOA) :  This digital library contains primary sources in American social history. It provides access to numerous journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site allows searchable viewing from scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts.

9. Research-it:  dictionaries, quotations, maps, translators, and other quick facts
10. Ref-Desk: Colin Powell's favorite research tool
11. Martindale's Reference Desk:  look up anything

Critical Theory

1. Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: Critical Theory :  A number of links related to major critical theorists. Writings, studies, and biographical links are indexed by the name of the theorist.

2. Timeline of Major Critical Theories in US :  Timeline graph that contains summaries and links about critical theories.

Help with writing

1. Glossary of Poetic Terms :  Poetic terms defined: includes pronunciation, cross-references, examples of term applied, quotes, and links to complete poems.

2. Scanning Poetry :  A self-study audio enabled guide for students to understand scansion: the analysis and notation of rhythmic patterns created by the poet.

3. Garbl's Writing Resources a rich source of on-line help with writing
4. Writing Tools from the Purdue Writing Center