English and Foreign Languages Resources
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New Voices, Lander's journal of contemporary prose, is published annually by the
Department of English and Foreign Languages and welcomes non-fiction student writing from all
disciplines.
Dr. John G. Moore and Dr. Carol Wilson. Eds.
Submissions accepted from Lander University students and faculty
Address for submissions:
New Voices
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Lander University
Greenwood, SC 29649
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The Margaret M. Bryant Award recognizes a senior majoring in a humanities discipline who plans to enroll in graduate school and who will represent Lander University well. The award is presented annually by the Department of English and Foreign Languages.
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The Dessie Dean Pitts Humanities Award is named in honor of Lander alumna Dessie Dean Pitts and is given annually to the student who writes the best nonfiction essay published in New Voices, Lander's essay journal.
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The Review, Lander University's award-winning literary and visual arts magazine, is published in the spring with entries judged in poetry, short stories, essays, art work and photography.
Publication Advisor:
Dr. Robert Stevenson
Faculty Coordinators:
Dr. Mary Lynn Polk
Mr. Alan MacTaggart
Ms. Virginia Dumont-Poston
Mr. Robert Poe
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The Writing Center is a referral center for students needing to develop writing skills. While many students using the center are enrolled in one of the freshman writing courses and are referred for basic word, sentence, or composition skills, upperclassmen also use the center to correct basic writing problems, to learn techniques for writing essay-test answers, or for organizing reports and research papers.
The ESL (English as a second language) students use the center to develop fluency and learn idiomatic usage. PPST evaluation and remediation are also provided.
From Advisor's Manual, prepared by Ms. Holly Hubbard.
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Selected links for E & FL (click on the icons):
Current articles are included online, and many
others are published from the archives of The Atlantic Monthly's 140-year history.
Search great books online including Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary,
Roget's Thesaurus, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Columbia World of Quotations,
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, King James Bible, Oxford
Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style, World Factbook, Columbia Gazetteer, among
others.
Over 2,000 online works including classic fiction, drama, biography, poetry, and short
stories. Study guides and reference works are also available.
This exhaustive search engine for new, used, rare, signed, first edition and out-of-print
books utilizes over 4,000 bookseller sites. The site claims its catalog comprises the largest
collection of book titles available anywhere.
A metadictionary and thesaurus highlight this site which includes dictionaries for
German, Greek. Latin, Spanish, and other languages. A translator for the Web is available as are
grammar, usage, style guides with writing tips.
This online virtual library contains reference works, newspapers, magazines, texts, and
many other resources.
15,000 books and archives are available online indexed by subject, title, and author--all free
and noncommercial from the University of Pennsylvania.
Project Gutenberg makes available searchable texts in literature, classics, and reference. A
very extensive collection is available for download.
The Project is currently the largest free Internet-accessible database to over 2,500 scholarly
societies in disparate fields.
Sun Microsystems' insightful guide for exploiting the difference between writing for the Web
and writing for print is constructed by Jakob Nielsen, P.J. Schemenaur, and Jonathan Fox.
This extensive, annotated guide to online resources in humanities research and teaching is
developed from a technological perspective by Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa
Barbara.
