The Rhetoric Page at Kettering University  

Friends, I will be retiring at the end of this academic year. The Rhetoric Page and The Second Rhetoric Page will no longer be updated. Many thanks to students and others who have made so many terrific suggestions over the years. The Second Rhetoric Page at Kettering University provides links to sites related to writers and creative writing, goverment agencies, literature, history, humanities, politics, law, international affairs, religion and religious rhetoric, film, television, popular culture, publishers, online media, people and places, blogs, virtual worlds, social media, and news and magazines. This page was last updated on August 14, 2020.

Starting Points Web Resources Resources for Students Teaching and Teacher Resources Public Domain and Creative Commons Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication Links
 
Online Books, Journals, and Other Publications Academic and Professional Organizations Online Libraries  Business, Security, and Technology Resources Science and Nature Resources Kettering Links

Starting Points

Amazon.com
Calls for Papers in English and Rhetoric
Chronicle of Higher Education
Dictionary.com
DuckDuckGo
Facebook
Google
Google Maps
Online Books Page
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Reddit
TV Tropes
Twitter
United States Government Resources
Wikipedia
YouTube
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Web Resources

About.com
Academic Index
AllRefer
Answers.com
Ask.com
Best of the Web
Bing
Boardreader
BrainyQuote
Creative Commons
Deep Web Search Engines
Directory of Associations
Dummies
ec21
eHow
Elephind (historical newspaper archive)
Encyclopedia.com
Excite
Fagan Finder
ForumStation
Fotor
The Free Dictionary
Freeality
GloURL (global internet guide)
Gray Literature (California State University at Long Beach site)
Greynet
Guidestar (includes directory of non-profit organizations)
How Stuff Works
Indeed (job search engine)
Infoplease
Internet Archive
iTools
Ixquick
Izito
KDnuggets (data mining site)
Lexic.us
Lexicool (online dictionaries and translation)
LibrarySpot
Lifehacker
List of Lists
Logos Dictionary
MakeUseOf
Martindale's Reference Desk
Melissa Search Engines
MS-Dos Games Collection at the Internet Archive
OfficialUSA.com (state directories and local links, chambers of commerce, etc.)
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Omgili
OneLook (dictionary search)
Open Culture (includes free online courses, audio books, etc.)
Quora
Refdesk
Reference.com
Regator
RingSurf
RSS Micro
The Search Engine List
Search-22
Shodan (internet of things search engine)
Social Mention
Social Searcher
Stack Overflow
StartPage Search Engine
StartSpot Network
StumbleUpon
Top 500 Websites (The Moz)
Top Websites (Quantcast)
Usenet Archives at M.I.T.
Webcrawler
Webopedia
wikiHow
Wiktionary
WolframAlpha
WWW Virtual Library
Yahoo
Yippy
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Resources for Students

1001 Sample Resumes
Activities for ESL Students
Air Force E-Publishing (includes links to many sample professional documents, and to the Air Force writing manual, The Tongue and Quill)
APA Help (West Coast University)
APA 7th Referencing Style Guide
APA Style (Landmark College)
APA Style (Penn State)
APA Style (Williams College)
APA Tutorial
Best Colleges
Bibliomania
BibMe
Britannica.com
Capitalize My Title (capitalization tool)
Center for Online Education
CliffsNotes
Changing Minds
CollegeAtlas
College-Universities (online degrees and colleges)
Community College Directory
Congressional Research Service Reports (site hosted by the University of North Texas; includes sample reports)
Department of Defense Issuances (includes sample documents)
Department of Health and Human Services Reports (includes sample reports)
Department of Justice Reports (includes sample reports)
Department of Transportation Reports (includes sample reports)
Distance Education
EasyBib
The Economist's Style Guide (British English at its best)
Effective Study
EnglishGrammar
English4U (grammar exercises, etc.)
eNotes
Environmental Protection Agency Reports (includes sample reports)
ESL - English as a Second Language
Evaluating Internet Research Sources (includes the CARS system)
EverySpec (includes sample documents)
Free Online Technical Writing Textbook
GoAbroad (study, work, and volunteer programs)
Google Scholar
Government Accountability Office: Reports and Testimonies - Browse by Topic (includes sample reports)
Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008 edition)
GradeSaver
GrammarBook.com
Grant Proposal Samples
Guide for Specification Writing
Harvard System of Referencing
How to Write a Resume that Gets Interviews
Idealist (information for volunteering)
Library Spot
Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary
Movie Reviews by Roger Ebert (includes sample movie reviews)
National Transportation Library (includes Research and Innovative Technology Administration reports)
Nationmaster
Online Etymology Dictionary
OSHA Publications (includes sample technical documents)
OWL: Purdue's Online Writing Lab
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
PhDs.org
Playing Twenty Questions with Literature
Power Thesaurus
Resource Central
Sample Proposals from SchoolGrants
Sample Resumes
Son of Citation Machine (automagical MLA/APA formatting)
SparkNotes
Statemaster
Study Abroad
Studying Abroad as an Online Student
Study Skills Guides for College Students (at CollegeAtlas)
Susan Ireland's Resume Site
This I Believe (includes personal essays)
U.S. Army Field Manuals (good examples of technical writing...and you never know when some of this stuff will come in handy...)
Wikipedia Style Manual
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
Writing Resources (includes instructions, personal essays, etc.)
Yale University Library links to Government Documents (includes sample documents)
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Teaching and Teacher Resources

Academia.edu
Academic Index
Adjunct Professor Online
Dave's ESL Cafe
Education Bug
Education Corner
Education Faculty Jobs
Education Planet
Education Week
Education World
EducationAmerica.Net
EducationIndex
EDUCAUSE
EduRef (lesson plans for educators)
Edutopia
English Job Maze
English Tutors Online
ESL Employment
ESL Jobs World
Foundation Center
Fundsnet (grants and fundraising resources)
GrantProposal.com (includes sample proposal)
Grants Information Collection
GrantsWeb (Society of Research Administrators)
Guru.com
HigherEdJobs
Higher-Ed.Org
Inside Higher Ed
Instructional Technology Council
Linguistic Funland TESL Page (ESL Resources)
Master Works of Western Civilization
Mentoring Junior Faculty
Mentoring Leadership & Resource Network
National Education Association
NCTE Position Statements on Key Issues
Ogden's Basic English
Online Ethics Center
Online Learning Consortium
Online Tutoring World
Peopleperhour.com
Plagiarism and the Web
A Primer of the Scholarship of Teaching (Boyer model)
Roostervane (life outside academia)
SchoolGrants
Simplified Technical English
Sophia Learning
Syllabi for English Courses
Teachaway
Teacher Certification
Teacher Certification Zone
Teachers.Net
Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web
Teaching English (ESL jobs)
TEFL.net
Tutor.com
Tutoring Services LLC
Tutorvista
United States Distance Learning Association
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Public Domain and Creative Commons (ALWAYS check the license on an image before you use it)

Clker
Creative Commons Search Engine
Everystockphoto
Flickr Commons
Free-Images
Let's CC
Magdeleine
Morguefile
Old Book Illustrations
Pexels
Pickup Image
Picryl
Pixabay
Pixnio
Public Domain Clip Art
Public Domain Images
PublicDomainPictures.net
The Public Domain Review
Public Domain Sherpa
Publicdomainvectors
Pxhere
Snappy Goat
Unsplash (includes free public domain images)
Viintage (includes free public domain images)
Wikimedia Commons
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Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication Links

American Rhetoric (speech archives, links to journals, etc.)
Carnegie Mellon University Department of English
ComPile (online bibliography)
CCC Online Bibliography
Definitions of Rhetoric
EServer.org
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
H-Net Announcements
H-Rhetor
JournalSeek
Michigan Tech Department of Humanities
Ohio State University Department of English
Penn State Department of English
PresidentialRhetoric
Purdue University Department of English (Go Boilers!)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Communication and Media
Rhetcomp.com
Syracuse University Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Texas Tech University Department of English
University of Arkansas Little Rock Rhetoric and Writing Department
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of English
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Online Books, Journals, and Other Publications

Academic Exchange Quarterly
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture
The AnaChronisT
Animation Studies
Apollon
The Atrium
Australian Humanities Review
Baen Free Library
Bartleby.com
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
The Cine-Files
Cinephile
Classic Literature Library (includes free public domain books)
Criterion
Directory of Open Access Journals (over 5,000 Journals listed)
Double Helix
Famous Poets and Poems
Film & History
Game Studies
Gender Forum
Global Journal of English Language and Literature
Great Books and Classics
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Historical Text Archive
Hwa Kang English Journal
Image [&] Narrative
ImageTexT
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Journal of Literacy and Technology
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Journal of Popular Culture
Kairos
LibriVox (free audiobooks)
Liquid Blackness
The Literature Network
Literature/Film Quarterly
Locus
Lore
Loyal Books (free online audiobooks)
ManyBooks
M/C Journal
Mechademia
Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema
Modern Languages Open
Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
Notes on Teaching English
Offscreen
Pedagogy
Persuasions (Jane Austen Society of North America)
Philament
Phoenix Papers
Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media and Society
The Poetry Archives
Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg of Australia
Project Muse
The Projector
Public Knowledge Project (online journal systems, etc.)
Questia (Online Library)
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Red Feather Journal
Relevant Rhetoric
Review of Communication
Rhetoric Review
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
Revenant
SANE (Sequential Art Narrative in Education)
Scope
Science Fiction Studies
Segue
SF Storyworlds
StoryTelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative
Strange Horizons
Teacher-Scholar
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice
This Rough Magic
Transformative Works and Cultures
Trash Culture
Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica
Unz.org (large collection of older magazines, etc.)
The Wenshan Review
Women in Judaism
Women Writers: A Zine
The Writing Instructor
Writing Technologies
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Academic and Professional Organizations

Academy of Management
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
African Studies Association
Alliance for Computers and Writing
Alliance of Rhetoric Societies
American Academy of Religion
American Association of Community Colleges
American Association of School Administrators
American Association of University Professors
American Communication Association
American Federation of Teachers
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Library Association
American Literature Association
American Marketing Association
American Philosophical Association
American Political Science Association
American Psychological Association
American Radio Relay League
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
American Society for Engineering Education
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
American Society of Association Executives
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Associated Writing Programs
Association for Asian Studies
Association for Business Communication
Association for Cultural Studies
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Association of Departments of English
Association of Independent Information Professionals
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Association of Professional Communication Consultants
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Association of Virtual Worlds
British Science Fiction Association
Canadian Communication Association
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
Central States Communication Association
College English Association
College English Association of Ohio
Council of Higher Education Accreditation
Council of Writing Program Administrators
East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS)
Eastern Communication Association
Film Studies Association of Canada
Heinlein Society
H.G. Wells Society
Horror Writers Association
Imagining America
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
International Association for Media and Communication Research
International Communication Association
International Congress on Medieval Studies
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts (KCTE/LA)
Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching
Marketing Mentor's List of Trade Associations and Trade Shows
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
Michigan Humanities Council
Michigan Writing Centers Association
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
Midwest Modern Language Association
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
Mid-Western American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Association
Mythopoeic Society
National Adjunct Faculty Guild
National Association of Colleges and Employers
National Business Education Association
National Communication Association
National Council of Teachers of English
National Education Association
National Management Association
National Rural Education Association
National Science Teachers Association
National Speakers Association
New York State English Council (NYSEC)
Nineteenth Century Studies Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (Higher Education Web Site)
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
Organization of American Historians
Popular Culture Association
Professional Communications Society (IEEE)
Rhetoric Society of America
Scholarly Societies Project at the University of Waterloo
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Science Fiction Research Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for College and University Planning
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Society for Technical Communication
Southern States Communication Association
Speculative Literature Foundation
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Toastmasters
Western States Communication Association
Writers Guild of America (East)
Writers Guild of America (West)
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Online Libraries

250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
Binghamton University Libraries
Boulder Junction Public Library
Bowling Green State University Libraries (includes Browne Popular Culture Library)
The British Library
Columbia University Library Digital Collection
COPAC
Digital Public Library of America
The European Library
Flint Public Library
Frank B. Koller Memorial Library
Genesee District Library
Harvard University Library Resources
International Children's Digital Library
Kettering University Library Resources
Libdex
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Congress
Library of Michigan (State Library)
Michigan State University Library Resources
Minocqua Public Library
Mississippi State University Digitial Collections
National Diet Library (Japan's "Library of Congress")
National Library of Australia
National Library of India
National Library of Israel
National Library of New Zealand
National Library of South Africa
New York Public Library Homepage
PALnet (Baker College, Mott Community College, and Kettering University)
Plum Lake Public Library
Public Libraries
Purdue University Library Resources
Rhinelander District Library
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
The Universal Digital Library
University of Illinois Library
University of Michigan Library
University of North Texas Digital Library (includes various online collections)
University of Utah Digital Library
Walter E. Olson Memorial Library
Wisconsin Valley Library Service
WorldCat
Yale University Library Resources
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Business, Security, and Technology Resources

Alibaba
androidcentral
Barnes & Noble
Business Insider
Car and Driver
CARFAX
CarGurus
Cars.com
ChamberofCommerce.com
C|net
Craigslist
DEF CON
Domain Tools
Dropbox
ebay
Equifax
Expedia
Experian
Foursquare
Freeware Files.com
Information Today
International Chamber of Commerce
Kickstarter
Linkedin
Linux Home Page
Majorgeeks.com
Microsoft
Monster (online job search engine)
Motor Trend
Mozilla
Networking for Professionals
Orbitz
Pandia (small business and webmaster product research)
Patreon
PayPal
Planespotters
Priceline
ReverbNation
RxList
Santander TradePortal
Security Zap
SimplyHired
SnapFiles
Softpedia
TechBargains
TechCrunch
TechExpo
TechRepublic
TransUnion
Trivago
TrueCar
United States Chamber of Commerce
Upspring
The Verge
WalletHub
World Travel Guide
Xing
Yelp
ZDNet
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Science and Nature Resources (an eclectic collection of interesting and possibly useful sites)

Aeon
Astronomy Now
Atomic Rockets (i.e., rocket science in fact and fiction)
Chemistry World
Cosmos
EarthRef
Exoplanet Encyclopedia
Interactive Periodic Table
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is here)
MarineRegions
Massive Science
Mother Nature Network
National Geographic
Nature
Nautilus
New Scientist
Open Exoplanet Catalogue
PDR (Prescribers' Digital Reference)
Planetary Habitability Laboratory
Prehistoric Wildlife
Quanta
Science
ScienceDaily
Science News
Scientific American
Scitation
Space.com
Spaceflight Now
STAT
Tree of Life Project
Undark
Universe Today
World Science
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Kettering Links

Blackboard (Kettering Blackboard System)
Kettering University Home Page
Kettering University Links (My Kettering)
Kettering University Phone Directory
Kettering University Web Mail at Google
My Homepage
The Second Rhetoric Page at Kettering University
The Technician (Kettering University Newspaper)
Thesis Digital Archive (login link at bottom left)
WKUF (Kettering University Radio Station)
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Dr. Mark Gellis
Department of Liberal Studies
Kettering University
1700 University Ave.
Flint, MI 48504

mgellis@kettering.edu