English

Writing and Research Resources

The Write Place - University of Dayton

http://learningsupport.udayton.edu/writeplace/index.htm

English Department Composition Program

http://academic.udayton.edu/FYComposition

Little, Brown Handbook

wps.ablongman.com/long_fowler_lbh_9

MLA Documentation Resources

http://www.mla.org

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocMLA.html

Online Writing Labs and Writing Centers

http://writing.colostate.edu/

http://www.cws.uiuc.edu/

Department of English's common readings on literacy

http://academic.udayton.edu/fycomposition/hum_base.htm

• Langston Hughes, "A Dream Deferred"
• Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
• Brian Friel, Translations
• Frederick Douglass, "Chapter 6: How I Learned to Read" from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
• Jonathan Kozol, excerpt from Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.
• Shirley Brice Heath, "Protean Shapes in Literacy Events: Ever-Shifting Oral and Literate Traditions."

For more information contact:

Dr. Sheila Hassell Hughes, Chairperson, Department of English