Exploring the Chapter Topic

Internet Research Guide
http://college.hmco.com/english/resources/research_guide/1e/students/index.html
If you plan to use the Internet to help you with researching topics and projects for school, be sure to check out Jason Snart's Internet Research Guide, available as a resource on the Houghton Mifflin College home page.

Ann Raimes's Links Across the Curriculum
http://www.college.hmco.com/english/raimes/keys_writers/3e/students/links/11.html
This collection of research starting points for 24 subject areas is part of Houghton Mifflin's online companion to Ann Raimes's handbook Keys for Writers.

Modern Languages Association
http://www.mla.org
This site provides information on current usage, style, and citation rules for disciplines in the humanities.

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org
This site provides a style guide for psychology and other social sciences fields. Take some time to look for differences between MLA and APA.

The Eserver: Accessible Online Publishing
http://eserver.org/
Eserver provides online versions of numerous texts. Online versions are no substitute for printed works (especially because you can make annotations in printed works but not online works), but online versions are good printed-text companions, since they make searching for particular keywords (using your web browser's "Find" command) extremely easy.

Libweb: Library WWW Servers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
Libweb lists the web addresses for libraries (public and private) around the world.

The Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
The Library of Congress website can be a good place to start e-research on a wide range of subjects.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Using this site, you can find quotations to add to a paper or trace quotations to their original source.

Glossary of Literary Terms
http://college.hmco.com/english/schwiebert/reading_writing/2e/students/exercises/part7.html
Jason Snart's Glossary of Literary Terms is part of the Houghton Mifflin companion web site to John Schwiebert's Reading and Writing from Literature.

Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
This huge digital library, hosted at Tufts University, covers culture and literature from 2000 B.C. to this century.