Throughout my internet meanderings during the week I found some sites and articles that I thought would be interesting to my fellow English majors. Some will make you laugh while others you may want to bookmark as they’ll be helpful to you. The comments below each link are, in a way, my take on the link and what it is.
- Wordplay: Helping Others to Become Authors
- A published author’s tips and advice on writing.
- A Note to An English Major: In Pursuit of a Degree
- Whenever I tell someone that I’m an English major, they’re automatic response is “Oh, you’re going to teach.” Here are some interesting options that you may not have thought of.
- 50 Famous and Successful English Majors Who Shatter the Stereotype
- Did you know that Vin Diesel was once an English major? Here’s an interesting list of people who once studied our craft.
- Grassly Gets Twitter-hacked, then Twitter-Saved
- How did they know he was hacked? Grammar.
- The Perks of Being an English Major
- This made me giggle a little.
- Creativewriting-list Info Page
- A wonderful way to stay plugged into the creative writing portion of the English department.
- Dear Female Students: Stop writing about men
- An interesting article. I haven’t had non-fiction yet, so I’m not sure what I’d write about. But since I’m in a loving relationship, I doubt it would be me writing about one that failed. Other female writers, do you find past men creeping into your non-fiction?
- 15 Famous Authors’ Beautiful Estates
- I think that my favorite was the picture of Mark Twain’s class.
- Son of Citation Machine
- This is one of my favorite websites. As you know, plagiarism is wrong, and this is one that you can make sure that you’re properly citing your sources.
