Guide for ENG 102
An overview of doing research in Bridgewater College's Alexander Mack Memorial Library

  W. W. Norton's Introduction to Literature Site
A fairly comprehensive site introducing students to writing about literature. Includes introductions to several kinds of criticism and literary terms.

 Purdue OWL Handout on Writing about Literature
Brief (one-page) introduction to writing about literature. Purdue's OWL is the granddaddy of OWLs and has an excellent array of topically oriented handouts.

  Questions for Writing about Literature
A useful list of questions intended to generate writing topics, provided by Hunter College's Reading/Writing Center. From their list of handouts, you can link to Guidelines for Literature Papers, Explicating a Poem and Symbolism, and a Glossary of Literary Terms, as well as other research-writing-oriented handouts.

  Writing a Literature Paper: Guidelines, Suggestions, Strategies
Overview of writing about literature, focusing on both process and parts of papers, with links to two student sample papers, provided by English Professor Jonathan Smith at University of Michigan-Dearborn.

  Rules for Writers
The companion Web site to Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers, the manual used in Effective Writing courses at Bridgewater College.