Composition and Rhetoric: Websites

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history.

Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items.

RSA is an organization of scholars dedicated to studying, teaching, and practicing rhetoric. Founded in 1968, RSA is an interdisciplinary society whose members come from composition studies, English, communication, philosophy, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, visual arts, and other fields.

A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

From the NLGJA: "NLGJA’s Stylebook Supplement on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms.

It reflects the association’s mission of inclusive coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, includes entries on words and phrases that have become common, and features greater detail for earlier entries.

From GLAAD: A quick-reference guide for "how to fairly and accurately report on transgender people." For additional resources, see http://www.glaad.org/transgender