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Resources Available on This Site

The following files were developed over the years to be of help to students in my classes. Students and teachers should feel free to use them as desired. No further permission is needed. China-related materials, from reference tables to full on-line books, are listed on a separate page. (Link) Materials intened for the use of teachers, including the famous quiz makers, are listed at the bottom of the page. (Link)

Advice to College Students for Academic Success

1. College Study Hints ("How to Prevent Homework From Screwing Up Real Life")
2. Academic Integrity & Cheating
   This is a more detailed (and useful) discussion than a student is likely to find elsewhere. (It even includes the infamous "Disastrous Adventures of Jimmy Gimmie.") Although it focuses on UCSD, and is based in my experience as professor and administrator at UCSD, pretty much all of it is broadly applicable elsewhere.
3. How To Avoid Sounding Like an Idiot: An Underground Guide to Literacy Even in Termpapers
   This is the famed and dreaded "gorilla paper." Since people will judge you by your writing, you might as well know what they are going to be annoyed by.
4. How to Cite Sources As Painlessly As Possible: Bibliographic Format Specimens (& stuff your English teacher never told you)
   Comment: This is a very useful guide to doing citations and bibliographies in termpapers and articles in the simplest way possible. Examples include kinds of sources that writing teachers never tell people about.
5. Interviewing Tips for Student Field Research

China Resources

1. Huge Collection of Stuff (Separate Index Page)

Physical Anthropology

1. Mitochondrial Eve
2. Human Birth and Bipedalism
3. Essential Fossils: A Folio
4. Reference Table of Hominid Classification

Archaeology

1. Tables & Maps
   1. Chronological Table of Mesoamerican Archaeology
   2. Chronological Table of Southwestern Archaeology
   3. Chronology of Troy
   4. Geological Time & European Prehistoric Assemblages
   5. Map of Mexican State Names for use in any course related to Mexico
   6. Map of Southwestern River Systems
2. Essays
   1. Basic Stone Tools
   2. Paleo-Indian Spear Points
   3. Ancient Metallurgy
   4. Ancient Cloth
   5. Prehistoric Beringia
   6. The Bantu Expansion
   7. The Neolithic & the Metal Ages (Four Essays)
      
      

Language & Linguistics

1. Slightly Geeky Beginners' Guides for Pronouncing
   Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Near Eastern Languages. Nahuatl (Aztec), Esperanto.
2. Esperanto (Entry Link)
   • Note on Esperanto
   • Diversaj Helpiloj por Instruistoj
   • Being Colloquial in Esperanto
     (Full text of the printed book, with a a few proof corrections, provisionally reformatted for on-line use.)
   • Esperantisma Ludejo (Nur kelkaj aferoj ĉi tie taŭgas por instruaj celoj.)
3. Classical Nahuatl (Aztec)
   • Notes on the Classical Nahuatl (Aztec) Language
   • On-line Nahuatl Textbook
   • On-line Reference Grammar of Classical Nahuatl
4. Chinese (Separate Index Page)

General Anthropology

1. Annotated Dictionary of Anthropology
2. Big Ideas in the Social Sciences
   (Very simple introductions to several major concepts.)
3. Background Note on Tea

General Anthropology: Broad Portraits of Societies

1. Most Ancient China (Equivalent to about 12 printed pages.) (Also listed on China page.)
2. The Aztecs: A Tributary Empire (Equivalent to about 50 printed pages.)
3. Hopi Social Order (Equivalent to about 17 printed pages.)
4. Background to the Iliad & the Trojan War (Equivalent to about 35 printed pages.)
5. Egyptian Origins (Equivalent to about 30 printed pages; allows toggling between full and abridged versions.)
6. Breasted: History of Egypt (Chapters 18-19) (by James Henry Breasted; allows toggling between full and abridged versions)
7. Budge: Babylonian Life & History (Chapters 5, 7, 9) (by E. A. Wallis Budge)

Ethnography of Religion: China (Link)

Ethnography of Religion: Christianity

1. Annotated Bibliography on Christianity
2. Catholic Religious Vocabulary
3. The Life of Jesus (Abridged)
   (Gospel extracts combined to make a quick overview of the canonical account of Jesus' life and ministry.)
4. Christian Documents for Class Discussion (Credos & Common Prayers)
5. Major Christian Heresies (stated with stark simplicity)
6. Voragine: The Story of St. Nicholas (in Latin and English)
7. Nican Mopohua: Here It Is Told
   (The original text of the alleged apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531. Bilingual presentation, with pictures, originally intended for use with the Nahuatl materials listed above.)
8. Amazingly Cool Christianity Quiz
9. Miscellaneous Web Links on Christianity

Miscellaneous Texts or Translations for (non-China) Class Discussion

These are texts I have put into HTML format for class use, usually with added introductory orientations (procursi). To the best of my knowledge all are available for free use by anybody. China-related texts (including Taiwan materials) are indexed on the China Resources page.

1. Aristotle: The Poetics (Chapters 4-5) (Tr. by Ingram Bywater)
2. Augustus: The Deeds of the Divine Augustus (Tr. by T. Bushnell)
3. Caesar: The War in Gaul (Book 1) (Tr. by W.A. MacDevitt)
4. Hippocrates: Three Comments on Medicine (Various Translations)
5. Muirchu: Life of St. Patrick (Tr. by N.J.D. White)
6. Plato: Charmides (Chapters 154-160) (Tr. by Benjamin Jowett)
7. Plato: Phaedo (Chapters 59-64) (Tr. by Benjamin Jowett )
8. Three Egyptian Tales (modified from Petrie, Egyptian Tales, with links to original)
9. Three Hebrew Tales : Tobit, Jonah, Judith (reformated from the World English Bible with introductions added)
10. Three Stoic Writers (Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus; Various Translations. Bilingual)
11. Voragine: The Story of St. Nicholas (Tr. by DKJ. Bilingual.)

Miscellaneous On-Line Utilities for Teachers

1. Interactive Quizzes for Your Web Site
   Comment: Quizzes made with these pages are designed to be mounted on a teacher's site, but can also be downloaded from the teacher's site to a student's own computer. They are fully interactive, but do NOT report results to anybody but the quiz taker. Perhaps for this reason, they have been very well received by students. Several teachers have emailed me to the effect that they prefer them to commercial products. Datails are provided on linked group of pages.
2. Interactive Glossaries for Your Web Site
   Comment: Glossaries made with this page can be used on a teacher's web site or downloaded from the teacher's site to a student's own computer. They provide study aids roughly on a par with flashcards. The script here works fine, but I have decided that, like flashcards, I don't think it is very effective educationally.
3. Color Tester to check codes for background and text colors on your web pages. (Primitive, but occasionally useful. Works fine off-line.)

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