Eng 103, Spring 2007, Essid
Class Links

Major ones you will need:

My Grading Guidelines & Pet Peeves
Writer's Web main pages: topics by area & alphabetical list
UR Libraries' Finding Information page (links to catalog, journals, databases)
UR Libraries' Pages for Citing Sources (our MLA system plus APA & CMS formats)
Another page from the library about annotated bibliographies
An extended exercise showing how to include MLA documentation and
A Writer's Web page covering many examples of how to include MLA in-text citations
Dr. Whitehead's guide online for paper 6.

Other ones that may be useful:

Writing Center and Speech Center Pages
Wired Magazine (search feature for research materials from the printed version of the magazine)
Hotwired (the Web site from the people at Wired magazine--different from the printed version)
Atlantic Unbound (search archives for research materials & ask me if wish to review a full version)
Netculture.com (many good short articles)

Readings that may prove useful:

"Digital Refusnik": Wired magazine interviews neo-Luddite Sven Birkerts.


Second Life Links:

Dr. Essid's Tourist Guide
Second Life Police Blotter and Community Standards
Wagner James Au's Second Life Blog, New World Notes
"My Second Life," the Video Diaries of Molotov Alva
"In a Strange Land," my blog for Media General
Iris Ophelia's blog, "Ophelia Drowns: A New Girl in a New World"
Baedaker, A Guide For The Second Life Tourist, by Ida Keen
Beeble Baxter's (Lee Carleton's) Blog

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