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If you're a faithful follower of our site, you've probably noticed some changes! We've added an editing page for professional writers seeking editing assistance. We've just added a blog for anyone -- from students to seasoned pros -- who would like to discuss literature, writing problems, publishing hassles, and the like. And at left, we've listed some of the schools or academic programs that have used or are using Storybites -- and thank you to all the supportive faculty members responsible for finding this site on the Internet!
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HELPFUL LINKS
In response to those readers who have asked for additional resources on their favorite authors, you're in luck! Some of the sites listed below are official links to a living author; some are sponsored by academics who have taken a special interest in a particular writer; a few are commercial sites sponsored by publishers; and others are professionally constructed and researched by fans. Regardless of the source, please give their creators the respect you have always given me, and cite them properly in your research papers. (If you have any question on how to do this, email me and I’ll help.)
Sherwood
Anderson site
Margaret Atwood
site
Isaac
Babel site
James
Baldwin site
Ann
Beattie site
Ambrose Bierce site
Heinrich
Böll site
Raymond
Carver site
Willa
Cather site
Geoffrey Chaucer site
John
Cheever site
Kate
Chopin site
Colette
site
A. C. Doyle site
Joseph
Conrad site
Stephen
Crane site
Charles
Dickens site
Fyodor
Dostoevsky site
William
Faulkner site
F. Scott
Fitzgerald site
Nathaniel
Hawthorne site
Bessie
Head site
Ernest
Hemingway site
W.D.
Howells site
Henry
James site
James
Joyce site
Franz Kafka
site
D.H.
Lawrence site
Clarice
Lispector site
H.P. Lovecraft site
Bobbie Ann
Mason site
Guy de
Maupassant site
Flannery O'Connor site
Edgar Allen Poe site
Saki (H.H.
Munro) site
James
Thurber site
Leo Tolstoy site
John Updike site
Eudora
Welty site
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In addition, the article "Kate Chopin's 'A Respectable Woman'" was used as a source to explicate Chopin's work during an Arizona Department of Education professional development training, and faculty in the Bedford County (Virginia) Public Schools recently used Storybites commentaries to develop test questions for quarterly benchmark tests.
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S.
Anderson: "Mother"
S. Anderson:
"The Untold Lie"
S. Anderson:
"Hands"
M.
Atwood: "Age of Lead"
M. Atwood: "Happy
Endings"
I. Babel: "Di Grasso"
I. Babel: "My First
Goose"
J. Baldwin: "Sonny's
Blues"
J. Baldwin:
"This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"
P. Barton: "Emilie
Plead Choose One Egg"
A. Beattie: "The
Burning House"
A. Beattie:
"Snow"
A. Bierce: "An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
A. Bierce: "The
Boarded Window"
H. Boll: "Like a Bad Dream"
H. Böll: "The
Laugher"
T. Borowski:
"This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"
A. Camus: "The
Guest"
R. Carver: "What
We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
R. Carver: "The
Gazebo"
W. Cather: "The
Garden Lodge"
W. Cather: "A
Wagner Matinee"
W. Cather: "Paul's
Case"
Chaucer's
"Knight's Tale"
Chaucer's
"Merchant's Tale"
Chaucer's
"Miller's Tale"
Chaucer's
"Pardoner's Tale"
Chaucer's
"Prioress' Tale"
Chaucer's "Wife
of Bath's Tale"
J. Cheever:
"The Country Husband"
J. Cheever:
"The Swimmer"
K. Chopin:
"The Awakening"
K. Chopin: "The
Story of An Hour"
K. Chopin:
"A Respectable Woman"
K. Chopin:
"The Storm"
S. Cisneros: "Alicia Who Sees Mice"
S. Cisneros: "The House on Mango Street"
Colette: "The
Hollow Nut"
Colette: "The Other
Wife"
A. Conan Doyle:
"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"
A. Conan Doyle:
"The Red-Headed League"
A. Conan
Doyle: "The Mystery of the Speckled Band"
J. Conrad:
"Heart of Darkness"
J. Conrad: "The
Secret Sharer"
S. Crane: "The
Open Boat"
S. Crane: "The Men in
the Storm"
C. Dickens'
"A Christmas Carol"
C. Dickens'
"The Cricket on the Hearth"
F. Dostoevsky:
"White Nights"
F. Dostoevsky: "Notes From The Underground"
W.
Faulkner: "Barn Burning"
W. Faulkner:
"A Rose for Emily"
W. Faulkner:
"Spotted Horses"
F. Scott
Fitzgerald: "Babylon Revisited"
F. Scott
Fitzgerald: "The Rich Boy"
F.
Scott Fitzgerald: "Crazy Sunday"
Ernest J. Gaines:
"The Sky is Gray"
C. P.
Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
S. Glaspell: "A
Jury of Her Peers"
N. Hawthorne:
"The Birthmark"
N.
Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
N.
Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"
N. Hawthorne:
"Rappaccini's Daughter"
B. Head:
"Looking for a Rain God"
B. Head: "The
Collector of Treasures"
E. Hemingway:
"A Cat in the Rain"
E. Hemingway:
"Hills Like White Elephants"
E. Hemingway:
"A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
E. Hemingway:
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
E.
Hemingway: "Soldier's Home"
W.D. Howells:
"Christmas Every Day"
W.D. Howells: "Editha"
Henry James: "Daisy
Miller"
Henry James: "The Real
Thing"
Henry James: "The
Ghostly Rental"
Henry James: "The
Turn of the Screw"
James Joyce: "Araby"
James Joyce: "The
Boarding House"
James Joyce: "The
Dead"
Franz Kafka: "The Country
Doctor"
Franz Kafka: "The Hunter
Gracchus"
Franz Kafka: "The
Metamorphosis"
Margaret
Laurence: "A Bird in the House"
D.H. Lawrence:
"The Horse-Dealer's Daughter"
D.H. Lawrence: "The Odour
of Chrysanthemums"
Clarice Lispector:
"The Chicken"
Clarice Lispector: "The
Fifth Story"
H.P. Lovecraft: "The
Colour out of Space"
H.P. Lovecraft: "The
Shadow out of Time"
Bobbie Ann Mason:
"Drawing Names"
Bobbie Ann Mason:
"Shiloh"
Guy de Maupassant: "Boule
de Suif"
Guy de Maupassant:
"Mademoiselle Fifi"
Guy de Maupassant:
"The Necklace"
Herman Melville:
"Bartleby the Scrivener"
Flannery O'Connor:
"Greenleaf"
Flannery O'Connor:
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Flannery O'Connor:
"Good Country People"
Flannery O'Connor:
"Revelation"
Flannery O'Connor:
"The River"
Cynthia Ozick: "The
Shawl"
E.A. Poe: "The
Cask of Amontillado"
E.A. Poe: "The Tell-Tale
Heart"
E.A. Poe: "Ligeia"
E.A. Poe: "Murders on
the Rue Morgue"
E.A. Poe: "The
Purloined Letter"
E.A. Poe: "The Fall of
the House of Usher"
E.A. Poe: "William
Wilson"
Saki (H.H. Munro):
"The Open Window"
Saki (H.H. Munro):
"Mrs. Packletide's Tiger"
Saki (H.H. Munro):
"Adrian"
J.P. Sartre: "The
Wall"
J. Thurber: "The
Catbird Seat"
J. Thurber: "The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
J. Thurber: "The
Unicorn in the Garden"
L. Tolstoy: "God
Sees the Truth, but Waits"
L. Tolstoy: "The
Death of Ivan Ilyich"
John Updike: "A &
P"
John Updike: "Wife
Wooing"
E. Welty: "Death of
a Traveling Salesman"
E. Welty: "Why I Live
at the P.O."
E. Welty: "A Worn
Path"
Tobias Wolff:
"Hunters in the Snow"
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COMPILING A WORKS CITED PAGE
Many of my readers are confused about the correct way to compile a works cited page. And how do you properly cite a website? This Empire State College site gives a great general comparison of MLA and APA: http://www.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/formats.htm. I've noticed, though, that some of the links in that site are dead. Here's one from the Modern Language Association (the MLA people) that can help you: http://www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/style_faq4. If you're formatting your citations in APA, try this site: http://www.apastyle.org/elecmedia.html.
As I find more sites like these, I'll post them on Storybites to help you out.
I’m delighted that so many of my readers are college students. Many of you read my site in order to learn more about authors or stories you’ve been assigned in class, and I hope my articles help you. But since my Storybites articles are copyrighted and I own the copyright, I’ve asked my readers to email me before they cite anything I’ve written in these pages. I’ve received many, many letters from students doing just that (and also from professors commending me for my stand as well as my work). I’m really proud of you for writing your own papers in an era when so much bad press is given to students who choose to plagiarize. And I love hearing from my readers, so don't be afraid to write to me!
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FINDING SOURCES ON THE INTERNET
I'm frequently asked how to find reliable sources on the Internet. That's something that will take you quite a while to master (it took me years, honestly) but here are a couple of tips.
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To begin with, I choose my search engines carefully. My favorite engine for research is AltaVista (www.altavista.com), because it makes refining your search simple. (There are other excellent search engines, but since they all have their peculiarities, we'll just deal with AltaVista for now.)
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If my search term is composed of more than one word -- in other words, if it's a title or phrase -- I use quotes to force AltaVista to see those words as a unit rather than individually. For example, if I just typed A Tale Of Two Cities into my search box, I might get reviews of A Knight's Tale or an encyclopedia article on cities. Typing quotes around the whole phrase -- "A Tale of Two Cities" forces AltaVista to look for those five words together.
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Here's another important tip: if you want to hunt for multiple search terms -- like "A Tale of Two Cities" and knitting -- put a plus sign right before each term: +"A Tale of Two Cities" + knitting. Doing this narrows AltaVista's search down to websites that include BOTH those search terms in them.
- Your public or school library probably subscribes to a number of restricted-access databases, online journals, and periodicals -- so if you have borrowing privileges at that library, you should be able to access those online materials for free. Ask your librarian for further information.
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And finally, if you're trying to impress professors, don't cite websites that were obviously written by students who know less about the subject than you do!
ASSORTED
LITERARY
TERMS
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EVEN MORE LITERARY TERMS!
Here are some external sites that may give you more help with basic (and not-so-basic) literary terminology. Note, however, that I did not write the following content, so you will need to cite their authors as respectfully as you do me. Email me if you have questions on how to do this.
Virtual Salt's Glossary of Literary Terms
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