"It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose."

 from The Yellow Wallpaper

Evaluating Websites

• Evaluating Websites: to determine if the site is authoritative enough to use in your paper.

 Suggested Sites

• One good way to find authoritative websites is through Literature Resource Center.

  • Conduct your search... for example, a TITLE search for "Much Ado About Nothing."
  • Click the tab that says "Additional Resources."
  • Under "Additional Resources" is a listing of websites which discuss the work you are searching.

• Some Other Useful Websites

• LitLinks : This site, from Bedford/St. Martin's Press, offers suggested links to information on poetry, plays, short stories, and critical articles. The site is organized by genre.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection : Over 2000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works, easily browsed by author, title, nationality, and literary period.
• The complete works of William Shakespeare  : Calling itself "the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare ," it also offers a searchable concordance and links to other Shakespeare resources on the Internet which take the user to texts, courses, secondary materials and film festivals.
• Project Gutenberg : The site offers literary and other materials full-text for reading or downloading; the latter may require some time to effect. An ever-growing source of documents, self-described as being either light literature, heavy literature or reference work, and has enormous potential, Gutenberg plans to have over 10,000 books available electronically.
• Norton Websource to American Literature  Directed at students, offers biographical and bibliographic information on 120 authors, including indigenous peoples. Timelines for seven time periods lists titles in their historical contexts.
• Critical Reading: A Guide : From Brock University, a basic guide for undergraduates outlining methods to analyze and interpret poetry and fiction.
• The Problem of Meaning in Literature : From Brock University, a brief and concise guide to aid beginning students in understanding and applying literary theory.

• Additional websites may be found in the Literature/Language link on the Potter Library's suggested Subject Resources page.