Hi! I’m Earl Guevarra, and besides being a senior student at the METU FLE department, I’m also a resident writer for the Philippine eSports Organization. Today, I would like to share with you five popular websites which I believe would help everyone in one way or the other. Here they are, in no particular order:
- TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage)
TV Tropes is basically a website where works in every imaginable medium (literature, media, games, etc.) are being ripped apart into their most basic elements. For those of you who are interested in knowing what kind of things do writers do when writing a certain piece of work, then this site is for you! Of course, nothing beats reading the book or seeing the work itself, but if you want to have a deeper understanding of what is you are seeing in your classes or in your daily life, then save this site in your bookmarks!
- Genius (http://genius.com/)
If you want to know the meaning, context and background of the songs that you listen to, then I highly recommend that you visit this site. This has been originally created as a site to annotate rap songs (thus the motto “Annotate the world”); but over time, it has grown into a large database of popular culture. Sure, many of you may ask what does this have to do with literature or English: Let us not forget that learning a language also involves learning a culture! And what better way to do this than by listening to music, no?
- Clippings (https://clippings.me/)
For prospective writers and photographers out there, this thing is a neat way to arrange your best works and show it either to the world or to your target audience. One can put up to 16 clippings (pdf files or photos) for free and the upgraded version is really neat too!
- Trello (https://trello.com/)
Trello is an online organizer that allows anyone to organize their schedules, much like an online sticky note. The thing about it is that you can add your friends via e-mail and do your plans with it! At the same time, if you feel like you want to help your friends when doing an assignment or project, then you can attach links, photos and documents to it! By the way, also very useful for reviewing and brainstorming for exams or other stuff as it allows each member to comment on a card in real time…
- The Daily Dot (http://www.dailydot.com/)
Claiming itself to be “the hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web”, The Daily Dot contains the latest news that a student in the twenty-first century would like to read. You want the latest in politics? You have it here! Love electronic sports? They also have them too!
Now, I am not saying that you will love or read all of the content on the site, but as members of Generation Y, I think that we should have knowledge of the things that matter for this generation!
Well, these are all for now. I hope that you find these websites interesting and useful for whatever purpose it may seem fit!
Good luck and have fun!
©Earl Carlo “Oriens.Rave” Guevarra, 2015.
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