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UMFK

English Composition I

Business and Technical Writing

Poetry Writing I

• CVCC ENG 111 Course Policies
• Assignment Schedule ENG 111
• Paper One Description
• Paper Two Description
• Paper Three Description
• Paper Four Description
• Paper Five
• Grammatical Sentences
• The Writing Process

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• Creative Writing 211 & 212
• How do I read short fiction?
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  Teacher's Notes (Creative Writing II, Notes on Imaginative Writing text)

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10

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  Northwest Arkansas Community College

  
  Research/Reading Aids:
  

• NWACC Library
• Go TILT
• How do I read short fiction?

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  University of Arkansas

  
  

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  Arts & Sciences

  Geraldine Cannon's Poetry Picks

  

  A Short Biography and Some Poems by Geraldine Cannon.

• The Academy of American Poets
• The Albany Poetry Workshop (An on-line workshop)
• Alice James Books
• Amicus Journal
• Bomb Magazine
• The Greensboro Review
• Milkweed blossoms | E-verse (A free poem sent to your e-mail weekly)
• Milkweed Editions | home
• Poetry Magazine
• Poets & Writers, Inc. - Home Page
• Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day



ADDITIONAL POETRY RESOURCES

• Billy Collins' Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
• PoetryTeachers.com
• Giggle Poetry
• The English Room: 30 Days of Poetry
• Outta Ray's Head Poetry Lessons
• Online Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Poetry Lessons from Scholastic
• Poetry Online: Search By Poet, Title, Timeline, Keyword
• The English Teacher's Poetry Resources (By Poet's Name)

Click here for more poetry sites.

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Creative Thinking

• Creativity Web (Lots of techniques and articles on the creative process),/li>
• Robert Alan Black's Creativity Challenges (ideas to encourage and evaluate creative thinking
  --check out the "welcome" and the other areas in the sidebar)
• Articles & Reports: Personal Creativity
• Building Emotional Intellegence Skills: Creativity (activities to focter creativity, creativity questions and related links)
• 10 Steps for Boosting Creativity

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Songwriters/Recording Artists

These are some of the songwriters and recording artists who influenced my work in various aspects over the years:
The Beatles| Johnny Cash| Eric Clapton| Patsy Cline| John Denver| Bob Dylan| The Eagles| Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs| Tom T. Hall| Billy Joel| Lynrd Synyrd| Roger Miller| Bill Monroe| Stevie Nicks| Tom Petty| Elvis Presley| Bonnie Raitt| Marty Robbins| Linda Ronstadt| Paul Simon| Sting| James Taylor| Hank Williams, Sr.| Tammy Wynette|

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Museums

• Museum of Modern Art (study paintings drawings, tour)
• The Louvre Museum In Paris (View precious Art and other treasures)
• Chicago Field Museum, Natural History (One of the best Natural History sites)


Other Interesting Sites

• NASA (The U.S. Space Program)
• Discovery Channel (learn about life & nature--great for kids & adults)
• Bill Nye, The Science Guy
• The Hamster Dance (Need a break from all the educational stuff?)
• The Gentle Survivalist
• Gregory R. Smith (A genius for whom the sky is not the limit)


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Mural © Stephon Johnson, 2001 Used by Permission Inquiries: stephon_johnson@juno.com

Ask An Expert



• Ask Jeeves
• Expert Page
• Inquiry (Ask questions about computer tech.)
• Pitsco's Ask an Expert Page
• Religious Tolerance (multi-faith source for information and education)
• About Wicca--a pagan religion

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References & Resources

• American Medical Association (Reference for medical matters)
• The Bigbook (Reference to 16 million U.S. corporations)
• Ceoexpress (General business resource)
• Current History (Learn about current historical events)
• Cyberatlas (Complete reference guide to the internet & its users)
• Electric Library (Dictionary reference info.)
• Encyberpedia (Online reference encyclopedia)
• Internet Public Library (Online library)
• Library's Best (Librarian Selected: Best of the Web)

• The Library of Congress (Excellent research resource)
• National Geographic (Access to photos, stories, chat line, etc.)
• One Look Dictionary
• Online English Grammar (Get cool English info, practice, etc.)
• Research Papers (Help with your research)
• Scientific American (Great science reference site)
• Virtual Library

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Timely Sites

• The Democracy Network (information on political candidates & Election 2000)
• The Freedom Channel ("The first online source for political candidate video-on-demand.")

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News

• ABC News (Up-to-date news)
• CBS News (Up-to-date news)
• CNN (Late breaking news)
• C-SPAN (Legislative info.)
• Los Angeles Times (Newspaper)
• NBC News (Up-to-date news)
• New York Times (Newspaper)
• USA Today (Newspaper)
• The Democracy Net (includes Arkansas newspapers)

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Internet Search Engines

• AltaVista (keyword searches)
• Excite (concept searches)
• Infoseek (general web resources)
• Lycos (indexes 90% of the Web)
• Magellan(Internet guide -- rates & reviews websites)
• Savvy (simultaneous multiple search engine searches -- currently experimental)
• Webcrawler (supports all Boolean search operators)
• Yahoo! (subject searches)

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Are you interested in World Literature, and Cultures? Then visit Joseph E. Becker's Website

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