NOTE: If
you don't have a SACLINK
account,
please get one immediately. (You cannot use some of these resources
if you are using aol, hotmail, yahoo, etc.)
To get an account, go to http://www.csus.edu/saclink
Create a dial-in connection with Saclink and use it to access
the
web when doing your assignments.
The PRism Online Journal,
an online, peer-reviewed publication is focused on PR theory and
practice. Nevertheless, occasional articles will be useful for
analyzing rhetorical material such as advertisements, adverstising
campaigns, and public service campaigns.
http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/prism_on-line_journ.html
"Silva Rhetoricae"
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young
University, is a guide to the terms
of classical and renaissance rhetoric. This site is intended to help
beginners, as well as experts, make sense of
rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific
terms) and on the large scale (the purposes
of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as
it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
Symbols.com
http://symbols.com/graphic-index/
This unique site allows you to search for specific symbols you may
run across in texts you are analyzing. This URL
links you directly to the graphic search profile. For other
options
for searching the database, check the matrix in the
upper right part of the screen. The database is quite large,
but, of course, the universe of symbols is larger. Therefore,
you may need to do some "creative browsing" to find what you
are looking for. Nevertheless, it is endlessly fascinating.
Have fun!
"A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with
Examples"
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html
"Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies"
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/
Fallacies are described in short paragraphs; lots of examples provided.
I suggest you sign-in so you can make use of the resources available
within the site such as the search engine.
Style
Guides:
A "style guide" gives
you direction on how to properly and
systematically give credit to those who provide ideas you are using in
your work.
If you borrow an idea that is helpful
to you in developing your own
ideas and arguments, you must give credit to them and a style guide
tells
you when, where and how to do so in
your essays. You will use the
American Psychological Association
(APA) style guide, 5th edition, for your work in this course.
APA style book overview (pdf)
Purdue University link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01 /
Unviversity of Wisconsin link: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
Understanding Editing Marks on Drafts
On-line Help for Writing Academic Papers
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/home.html
This is a handy site. I recommend you use the Social Sciences
tab--that's where you'll find communication
studies resources.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
A part of the webster.commnet site above, this portion is specifically
devoted to technical concerns
of appropriate, and precise writing. It provides help at the
sentence, paragraph and essay levels of writing.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html
This is an extensive set of handouts explaining everything from how
to use a comma to how to write an essay.
The listing is thorough and easy to use.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Scroll to the bottom of the page to "enter." You will then find
an alphabetical list of common writing
errors explained in brief notes. Easy to use.
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
If you can't think of a word you want, but you can describe to what it
relates, OneLook's reverse dictionary
lets you describe a concept and get
back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.