Resources

Writing tools
Literary research
Atlanta-area history and archives
Digital tools and web publishing

Writing tools

• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) is one of the best general resources for academic writers, and includes a clear guide to MLA documentation
• The University of Victoria Writer’s Guide includes a very readable selection of Literary and Rhetorical Terms, advice on essay, paragraph and sentence structure, and a guide to argumentation
• Rhetological Fallacies: Errors and manipulation of logical thinking, by David McCandless at Information is Beautiful
• Norton Write Site: Multiple-choice exercises reviewing sentence structure, MLA citation and more.
• Diana Hacker’s Pocket Style Manual includes self-diagnostic and review exercises related to grammar and documentation (you have to create an account)

Literary research

• Modern American Poetry (excellent companion to the Oxford anthology, with historical contexts and critical selections: for instance, their page about Williams’s “To Elsie”)
• UbuWeb (huge collection of audio and video from twentieth-century avant-garde artists)
• Modernist Journals Project
• MLA International Biography (for peer-reviewed critical articles about literature and culture), through Emory Libraries
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism and Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, available as print and e-books

Atlanta-area history and archives

• Southern Spaces
• Resources from the Atlanta Studies Collective
• Emory’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library (their finding aids are very helpful)
• GSU Digital Collections
• Creative Loafing
• Atlanta Regional Consortium (geographic and demographic data)

Digital tools and web publishing

• Learn WordPress.com
• Audacity, open-source program for recording and editing audio
• Omeka, for museum-style collections: student guide
• SIMILE’s Timeline Widget
• Tumblr
• To create custom maps and tours: ArcGIS map layers and guide to storytelling with maps; Google Maps Engine