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.
American
Communication Journal (click "Archives")
Public Journal of Semiotics (Click "current issues" and "past issues" buttons on left side of screen)
"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!
"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,
6th edition, for your work in this course.
APA
Flash Video Tutorials (very good) [I recommend slides 13-26
in particular.]
APA Style Blog
This is a new resource that is very helpful. Use the search
bar to find topics.
Purdue University Owl link:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01
University 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.