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Invention Techniques
http://myst.hunter.cuny.edu/~rwcenter/writing/on-line/invention.html
From Hunter College, this site offers questions and ways of thinking about topics that can be applied across disciplines and discourse communities.

Scholarly Journals Distributed on the Web
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html
A directory with links to Web-based scholarly journals available free of charge. Maintained by the University of Houston.

Analyzing an Essay or Article
http://www-english.tamu.edu/wcenter/journal.html
Provides a way to discern the academic conventions and styles of a discipline. Maintained by Texas A&M's writing center.

Literary Resources
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit.html
Excellent links for literary and literature resources.

Literary Research Tools on the Net
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
A searchable collection of links to sites dealing with American and English literature.

The Voice of the Shuttle
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
An especially rich Web site for humanities research, maintained by Alan Liu, the University of California at Santa Barbara.