Brevity is an online publication featuring "shorts," brief pieces of creative nonfiction.  To be published in Brevity, a piece must be 750 words or fewer.  The site includes not only excellent examples of the "short," but also craft essays related to the genre.

flashquake is an online publication featuring "flash," which the publishers define as poems of 35 lines or fewer, or prose of 1,000 words or fewer.  Unlike Brevity, flashquake publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that conforms to these parameters.

While this web page doesn't really provide models of the short, it does provide some perspectives on writing nonfiction.  Fourth Genre is one of the premier literary journals for nonfiction works.

This site ammounts to an online textbook/encyclopedia related to the study of rhetoric.  We will probably be drawing on this site in connection with some of our Monday class meetings.

The Blogora provides a collaborative space for connecting rhetoric, rhetorical methods and theories, and rhetoricians with public life. The Blogora is an initiative of the Rhetoric Society of America and is hosted by the Computer Writing and Research Lab, part of the Division of Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Texas at Austin.

This link will take you to a brief explanation of stasis theory, an approch to invention grounded in ancient rhetoric.  This brief explanation is a segment of Andrea Lunsford's The Everyday Writer.

One of the most famous letters ever written, we'll be reading Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in order to inform our discussion of the various types of persuasive appeals and the writing we will do in connection with the Epistles project.  This version of King's letter is made available by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

This link will take you to a page hosted by Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts.  On this page, you'll find a link to an audio file of Alan Shapiro reading from his poetry.  There is also a link to a transcript of the reading.

This link will take you to a .pdf file containing an interview with Susan Orlean, author of "Lost Dog."  The interview was conducted by John Boe, editor of the journal Writing on the Edge.

This web site provides a brief bio and bibliography for Susan Sontag, the mother of David Rieff.

Blogger is probably the most accessible platform for creating a weblog, or blog.  While the use of blogs will not be a required part of this course, some of you may opt to utilize a blog rather than a more traditional journal or notebook in connection with some of the assignments.

Google Docs is an online word processing application that contains nearly all the functionality of Microsoft Word.  The primary advantage to using Google Docs is the ability for multiple writers to collaborative on the same piece of writing.

PB Wiki is the platform we will be using for the publication of at least two of our writing projects: the "So Much Depends Upon" assignment and the "Epistles" assignment.

This is an application I only recently discovered.  It allows one to easily take and manage notes from online resources.  Those clippings are then saved for later use.  One may also elect to share his or her notebooks with others.

Sort of a My Space for bookworms, Library Thing enables one to easily catalog one's personal library, both for personal record keeping and for comparison with other Library Thing users.

Another internet application for readers, Chain Reading allows one to manage and share a current reading list, a planned reading list, recommendations, and reviews.  Some members of the USF faculty utilize Chain Reading as a means of sharing their reading lists with one another and with students.  Check out Dr. Dyer's lists or Prof. Schuelke's lists.