Resources for WRIT 102 Students
[Working with the Internet]  [General Argument Resources]  [Logical Fallacies]
[Teacher Resources]  [Just for Fun]

Working With the Internet
The Winthrop Writing Center : www.winthrop.edu/wcenter
Dacus Library Descriptive Guide to Internet Search Engines: http://www.winthrop.edu/dacus/About/Infoguides/isrchhlp.htm
St. Louis University's first-rate "Student's Guide to Researching with the World Wide Web"
Susan Beck's wonderful sets of Web Evaluation Examples
The new MLA On-line Documentation Standards
Researching Your Papers Online: From the Allyn & Bacon Compsite (publishers of our textbook)
Why Do We Need To Evaluate Internet Sources? (from Purdue University): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_evalsource4.html
How to Tell if an Internet or E-mail Rumor is True
Is The Information on These Sites True? Try this one if you're interested in the social/natural sciences or this one if you're interested in the humanities.
How Can You Tell if a Web Site is Biased? First, look at Widener University's widely-admired guidelines: http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm. Then check o out these sample websites provided by the UCLA Libraries. Then look at this one as an example of a site that tries very hard to avoid bias on controversial issues.
Test Your Critical Thinking Skills on the Web
Critical Thinking and Loaded Language
Links to Additional Sites with Web Evaluation Materials (Widener University): now found at http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/cklstlnk.htm
Guides to finding information on the Web from St. Martin's Press
The companion page to the new edition of The Prentice Hall Guide for research

General Argument Resources
How Do You Test a Claim? (reprinted from Belleville Community College's website)
Argument: A Community Guide (with excellent guides to Toulmin arguments) (reprinted from Ron Steffen's wonderful pages, now gone from Southwestern Community College)
Hunter College Guide to Argumentation: http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/writing/on-line/argument.html
Teaching Toulmin Enthymemes: http://www.abacon.com/compsite/instructors/conline/toulmin.html
Professor R Frost's handy list of tips for structuring a written argument: http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/arguing.html
Overview of Rogerian Argument (Written by students in Ron Steffens' argumentation class--first rate!)
Applying Rogerian Argument (A great demonstration of explanations written by Ron Steffens' students)
Practice Writing a Rogerian Argument: http://www.english.udel.edu/writing/Handouts/rogerian/roger.html
Young, Becker & Pike's Rogerian Argument: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/art/rogrhet.html
Classical Argument (again from Ron Steffens' old site at Southwestern Community College)
University of Delaware Guide to Writing A Research Paper
University of Delaware Guide to how to develop a paragraph using sources--the PIPE paragraph
The Cliche Finder: http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2004: http://election.rhetorica.net/
Propaganda Analysis Home Page

Logical Fallacies
Guide to Logical Fallacies: http://web.archive.org/web/20030416010519/wolf.southwestern.cc.or.us/faculty/rsteffen/wr122/comarg/fallacy/outline1.htm
Wiley Accounting's Guide to Logical Fallacies (really extensive!): http://web.archive.org/web/20001207054700/http://www.jacwiley.com.au/college/kieso/html/fallacy.html
Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies (now running off the mirror site at Intrepid Software): http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.php
Unbelief.com's Guide to Logical Fallacies: http://web.archive.org/web/20010307173228/http://www.unbelief.com/secchurch/philosophy/fallacies.htm
The Nizkor Guide to Fallacies: http://www1.us.nizkor.org/features/fallacies
The Purdue Writing Center's Guide to Using Logic in Argumentation: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_argpers.html
Dr. Charles Ess's List of Informal Fallacies: http://www.drury.edu/faculty/Ess/Logic/Informal/Overview.html

Just for Fun
Squirrel Fishing: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html
Virtual Sushi: http://web.archive.org/web/20010624035126/http://www.janel.com/sushi/
Philosophy Comix on logic and argument (I like the New Yorker egg cartoon, myself...)
Darryl Cagle's up-to-the-minute cartoon index
Today's comics pages: www.comics.com and www.ucomics.com
The Dilbert Page
Sylvia online

Teacher Resources
Bedford Bibliography for Writing: http://www.bedfordbooks.com/bb/
CompPile: An ongoing bibliography of resources in post-secondary composition, compiled by Rich Haswell: http://comppile.tamucc.edu/
Literature and Composition Resources on the Internet from UNC-CH:  http://sites.unc.edu/teaching/complinks.html
University of Delaware's Writing Resources, including argument: http://www.english.udel.edu/writing/teachers2.html
Randolph Chilton's Composition Links Page: http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/bookmark.htm
Allyn & Bacon's Composition Resources Page: http://www.abacon.com/compsite/index.html 
Teachers & Writers Collective: http://www.twc.org/tmhot.htm
The Daedalus Group's list of tens for composition (for those days when you really need help in the classroom): http://www.daedalus.com/list_of_ten.asp

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