The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

Unusual for a style handbook, Nuts and Bolts embeds writing advice in essays that identify rhetorical structures as tools for shaping your ideas, questions and convictions to share with others. While it offers suggestions that will help writers fine-tune their sentences and paragraphs, it has a lot to say about the machinery of college writing on a grander scale--the switches, transformers, and fans which must function well before a unit can be bolted together

Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words

Travel writer and humorist Bryson has revised, adapted, and updated his style guide, first published in 1984 in Britain as Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words and in the US as Facts on File Dictionary of Troublesome Words, to appeal to contemporary American book buyers. Presenting itself as a compilation of suggestions, observations, and treasured prejudices, the work compiles and comments on commonly misspelled words and proper nouns and other conundrums of usage scrupulous writers or copy editors may face

National Writing Project: Internet Resource

The National Writing Project (NWP) is a federally funded program that focuses on the teaching of writing, and coordinates and supports professional development for writing teachers (K-16) at over 200 college and university partner sites

Center for Women and Information Technology Web Archive

The Web site of the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, includes in the Resources section various listings of print and online resources relevant to women\u27s studies

British Film Noir Guide

Independent scholar Keaney follows up his Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959 (CH, Sep\u2703, 41-0022) with this filmography of 369 British productions that embrace the visual style and dark thematic elements that define film noir as a genre

Encyclopedia of Gender and Technology

This encyclopedia compiles 213 four- to five-page entries making observations about the role of gender in human interaction with information technology and the IT profession. Intended as a preliminary research agenda encompassing essays on gender and IT education and the workplace, the volume contains many essays that simply survey struggles faced by women in many parts of the world who interact with the Internet or telecommunications technology

Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007: Connecting to the Networked Economy

This World Economic Forum report by Dutta (INSEAD) and Mia (WEF) evaluates the penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in 122 economies across the globe

Hacks/Hackers Survival Glossary

[Visited Oct\u2710] This crowdsourced glossary of Web content distribution technologies is intended for journalists writing for an audience of laypersons

The American College Novel: An annotated bibliography

Kramer\u27s revision of his 1981 bibliography (CH, Dec\u2781) of novels set at American colleges adds 209 citations with annotations for novels published 1981-2002 and condenses annotations for novels carried over from the first edition for a total of 648

Twentieth-Century Drama: Internet Resource

The current release of Twentieth-Century Drama offers authoritative online texts for 1,450 plays. The completed version will contain 2,600 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present, at a cost of roughly $25 per play for a typical graduate library