The Literary Link

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Writing Essays

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Learning the Basic Literary Skills

• For preliminary steps for an Explication de texte, visit Close Reading
• Explicating a poem (according to Romantic scholar Dr. Helen Vendler)
• Critical Reading: from Professor John Lye

• Need help with imagery? Visit Notes on Imagery.
• Need further definitions of poetic devices, narrative terms, and/or general literary terms? Visit Literary tools (from UVic English)
• Learn to blend quotations into your own writing.
• Visit sentence strategies for problems with sentence clarity.
• Prose style: sentence patterns
• Suggestions for cleaning up your prose style from Michael Gamer
• Visit Writing a Critical Essay for specifics
• Understanding Themes in literary works

• Format for submitting papers for Patten's classes.
• MLA Documentation and Citation format
• Visit the official web site for MLA guidelines.
• Quoting on-line sources according to MLA guidelines.
• Visit The Literary Link page to On-line for upper-division and graduate students in literary research, including terms, theory, and glossaries.

Links for General Grammar and Punctuation

• Strunk and White's Elements of Style: see correct ways to use an apostrophe, how to form plurals, how to use active verbs, etc.
• Guide to Correct Punctuation
• A humorous essay about the importance of Periods
• Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch
• Blue Book Guide to Punctuation
• Blue Book Guide to Grammar
• Guide to Sentence Construction or ways to eliminate problems
• Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary
• On-line dictionary: search 8 dictionaries at once
• An integrated Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Rhetorical Information at Georgia Tech
• Review the it's or its dilemma
• A crazy little poem written by Jack and Jan in 1980

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