Students' Resources Available on This Site

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The following files were developed to be of help to students in various classes. Not all of them are associated with classes currently in progress. I have been asked by a few colleagues here and at other universities to leave them on the web because they are linked to their web sites.

1. General Advice to Students
   1. Academic Integrity & Cheating (including the infamous "Disastrous Adventures of Jimmy Gimmie")
   2. Study Hints ("How to Prevent Homework From Screwing Up Real Life")
2. English Usage
   1. English Usage
      (The famed and dreaded "gorilla paper" devoted to my war against self-destructive writing, illustrated with examples from student papers!)
   2. How to Cite Sources As Painlessly As Possible: Bibliographic Format Specimens (& stuff your English teacher never told you)
      (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 teach people about.)
3. Chinese Studies
   1. China-Related Resources
      (A range of resources that I have prepared for various China-related classes is separately indexed on this page. Examples include a pronunciation guide for Chinese, an overview of the religious canons, an introduction to influential early novels, a table of dynasties and emperors, an inter-active overview of the five elements, maps, summaries of stories all Chinese know, &c. Also linked here are some translations from the Chinese intended for use in courses on traditional China.)
   2. Type Font Compatibility Tester to check your browser for Unicode (and other) compatibility. (All Chinese on my web site is encoded in Unicode.)
4. Archaeological & Other Essays for the Utterly Innocent
   (Mostly expansions of lectures that were hard to take notes on.)
   1. Basic Stone Tools
   2. Paleo-Indian Spear Points
   3. Ancient Metallurgy
   4. Ancient Cloth
   5. The Neolithic & the Bronze Age
      (Caution: This is equivalent to about 40 printed pages.)
   6. Most Ancient China
   7. The Idea of Evolution
   8. The Bantu Expansion
   9. Mitochondrial Eve
   10. Quick Essays on Social Theory
       (A number of recurring issues related to theories, models, classification, motivation, mystification, and other abstractions)
5. Reference Materials for the Utterly Innocent
   1. Chronological Table of Mesoamerican Archaeology
   2. Chronological Table of Southwestern Archaeology
   3. Prehistoric Beringia (chronology)
   4. Map of Mexican State Names for use in any course related to Mexico
   5. Map of Southwestern River Systems
   6. Glossary of Ethnographic Terms
      Brief definitions of technical terms commonly used in ethnographic writing, originally created as a glossary for a class reader. Example: Uxorilocality.
   7. Expansions, Definitions, and Rants
      Access page for the full set of "More About" mini-essays designed to amplify terms or topics briefly mentioned in classes. Example: Cholera. These tend to be longer and more detailed than the "brief definitions" in the previous item.
6. Languages
   1. Notes on Esperanto
   2. Notes on the Classical Nahuatl (Aztec) Language
   3. On-line Reference Grammar of Classical Nahuatl
   4. On-line Nahuatl Textbook
7. Ethnography of Christianity
   1. Annotated Bibliography on Christianity
   2. Amazingly Cool Christianity Quiz
   3. Miscellaneous Web Links on Christianity
8. Web Pages
   1. How to Make a Web Page
      (A mini-site full of examples and various other materials aimed at beginners. It still works and can get you started, but the world is rapidly passing it by.)

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