WRITING RESOURCES

Grammar Guide and Student Tools This is an easy-to-use reference for common questions and issues in student writing. It covers grammar, style, and MLA/APA information. Look here for examples and helpful links!

Guide to Grammar and Writing This is a comprehensive, user-friendly site that offers explanations, examples, and quizzes (scroll all the way down) with immediate feedback. Select from the drop-down menus on the topic you need help with: word/sentence level, paragraph level, essay and research paper level. Great for grammar review!

Road to Grammar This site’s friendly design makes it appealing and easy to use; it is designed primarily for ELLs (English Language Learners). Choose your topic from the alphabetical list, and click start; you will receive immediate feedback on your answers.

P.I.E. (point, illustration/information, explanation) This is a handy method for developing paragraphs. P.I.E. shows you how to introduce information, present it, and follow it with your explanation and comments—the essence of college writing!

The Student's Guide to Grammar and Punctuation Offers help for academics, ELL, business and other categories of writers. Articles, videos and pocasts are available to help with items like punctuation, annotated bibliographies, footnotes, plagiarism, footnotes, plagiarism, easily confused words, and more.

Citation Formatting Bibme Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Citation machine These sites are a great tool for creating your MLA or APA citations for research papers. Follow the prompts, fill in the required boxes, and your citation is created for you. Then copy/paste onto your document; remember that when you copy/paste, the format (hanging margin, spacing) is altered, so you will need to tweak it! Easy as pie!

How to Write An Essay: Having a hard time remembering all those steps to producing a quality college-level essay? These websites will walk you through it, step by step! 5 easy steps (ENG 90/100) Ten Steps for Writing an Essay

Research and Writing: Purdue Owl (Online Writing Center) MLA & APA sample papers and formatting English usage, style, composition, parts of speech review Grammar, mechanics, punctuation Accuplacer Practice Tests Reading comprehension, WritePlacer, sentence skills, math and more Quick review of passages for practice. See a tutor for more extensive practice.

READING RESOURCES

Reading Strategies: Just Read Now Active Reading Strategies, reading in content areas.

Virtual Dictionary and Vocabulary Lessons: Grammar Bytes Grammar and vocabulary

Other helpful cites: Dictionary.com online dictionary/thesaurus with audio to hear the word Inspiration.com outlining and mapping- offers 30 days free trial Howtostudy.org many great study tips

Math and Science Resources

Pearson MYLABSPLUS MyLabsPlus is a dynamic online teaching and learning environment. Within this robust course environment, instructors and students can access their suite of online materials from Pearson, including multiple tools for collaboration, interaction, and assessment. Khan Academy -The Khan Academy is a website that allows you to watch free video lectures designed to be watched on a computer screen. Topics covered range from arithmetic to calculus, chemistry, biology, finance, and so on. In addition to the extensive video collection, students can create a login and practice problems that can be broken down step-by- step. WolframAlpha -WolframAlpha is an extraordinary resource, particularly for mathematics. Upon clicking the URL, the user is brought to a webpage asking what they would like to know. You can type in a wide variety of math problems, unit conversions, or terms you would like defined! However, if that's too open-ended, click "Examples" to be brought to a page where you can more easily pin down your topic of interest. InteractMath -The InteractMath website allows you to access Pearson mathematics materials based on their extensive collection of textbooks. Upon clicking “Enter,” you will be given the option to select a textbook of interest from all levels of math. After choosing a textbook, you will be able to practice countless exercises, enter your answers online, and receive an immediate response as to whether your answer is correct or not! While the website does not provide access to the textbooks themselves, you will have access to the “View an Example” and “Help Me Solve This” options. The website does not require you register and it’s free!

Technology Resources

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Information Online technology dictionaries Tech Terms Dictionary Computer and technology terminology game for one or two players: Learn or Practice keyboard typing

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