Resources

From RhetorClick

This page is a place to post helpful resources for students. As you find interesting websites, academic databases, videos, etc., add them to this page. If your resource doesn't fit into one of the preexisting categories, feel free to create a new category.

Contents 1 Digital Research Tools 2 How to Read Difficult Texts 3 On-Campus Resources 4 Websites 5 Scholarly Journals 6 Professional Organizations 7 Conferences 8 Blogs 9 Listservs

Digital Research Tools

• How to Rip a DVD with Handbrake (Mac), How to Rip a DVD with Handbrake (PC)

Handbrake is a powerful cross-platform, free ripping and transcoding tool.

• Voyeur Tools: Visualize Your Texts

"One of the more useful components of Voyeur is that it allows researchers to analyze both a corpus of documents or individual sources."

• Digital Methods Initiative's database of tools

"The Digital Methods Initiative is a contribution to doing research into the "natively digital"...the focus is on how methods may change, however slightly or wholesale, owing to the technical specificities of new media." The site may cause your browser to issue a security warning because of an alleged security certificate problem. As far as I know, the site does not present a security problem.

• HTTrack Website Copier

"[A]llows you to download a...site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer." Windows, Mac, Linux

• IBM's Many Eyes

"This site is set up to allow the entire internet community to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people."

• Bamboo DiRT (beta) Digital Research Tools

"Project Bamboo is currently piloting a directory of tools, services, and collections that can facilitate digital research. This evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki includes new ways of browsing and commenting on the entries."

• Site Sucker for Mac or iOS

Site Sucker is a donationware site ripper for Mac or iOS.

• Geek to Live: Mastering Wget on Lifehacker.com

Wget is the Swiss Army knife of internet download managers. It has a cameo in The Social Network about ten minutes in.

How to Read Difficult Texts

• Handout on Grappling with Tough Readings

On-Campus Resources

• Library
• Writing Center

Websites

• eServer Rhetoric and Composition

Scholarly Journals

• College English
• College Composition and Communication
• Computers and Composition
• Computers and Composition Online
• Technical Communication Quarterly
• Kairos
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• Quarterly Journal of Speech

Professional Organizations

• Rhetoric Society of America
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
• Council of Writing Program Administrators
• Association for Business Communication
• Society for Technical Communication

Conferences

• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• Rhetoric Society of America
• Watson
• TILTS

Blogs

• The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
• The Web of Language by Dennis Baron
• It Figures - Figures of Speech
• Digital Digs--Alex Reid

Listservs

• CompPile: Journals in Rhetoric and Composition