Here are some useful links to help you in your studies, both in this course and throughout your studies in ELIT and beyond.
N.B. Some sites you will need to be on the Bilkent network to access fully: these are marked with an asterisk.*
Reference Resources
Literature Online * (LION) – your Wikipedia substitute
Oxford English Dictionary online * (OED)
Glossary of Literary Terms (Cambridge University)
Academic Writing
Plagiarism, what it is, and how to avoid it
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
(A useful resource with advice and exercises to help with academic writing, style, grammar, structure, and a whole lot more. Recommended!)
Getting Organised
Bullet Journal – one way to get yourself organised, stick to deadlines, and keep your notes.
Zotero – store and organise your reading (PDF files) and insert and format references and ‘Works Cited’ lists. A useful tool.
Student Survival Skills – a useful series of links to articles on study skills, time management, well-being and self-care, and study tips from lecturers.
Style Guides
These are the best online guides to how to format your essays, how to cite your sources, and how to construct and format your list of works cited or your bibliography.
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)
Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
(Note that on this course you may use MLA, Chicago, or MHRA referencing styles for your final paper – but it is important to use ONE of these, and to be consistent! I recommend that you use MLA (8th edition) as this is probably (a) the simplest, (b) the one you have learnt, and (c) the most commonly required both in ELIT at Bilkent, and beyond. However, for various reasons academics often have fierce loyalties to one form of referencing or another, and you may find that you develop such loyalties too!)