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

• 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."

• 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."

How to Read Difficult Texts

• Handout on Grappling with Tough Readings

On-Campus Resources

• Library
• Writing Center

Websites

• 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

Listservs

• CompPile: Journals in Rhetoric and Composition