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English Resources for Students

GENERAL

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

A great resource for explanations of grammar and citation rules.

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

A great resources for literaturary works past their copywright dates.

 

THE RESEARCH PAPER

 

http://www.virtualsalt.com/  Virtual Salt is a site that helps a researcher evaluate Internet research sources using the CARS list, discussed in ENGL 1A lecture, to be certain your sources are authorities on the topic of your paper. There are also other helpful ideas that you can read on the homepage at Virtual Salt. At the bottom of the home page, just scroll down, you will find a number of links. If you search these links, there are scads of research sources listed that are extremely helpful when doing a research paper in any course.

 

http://college.cengage.com/english/raimes/universal_keys/1e/students/research/exercises.html  A step-by-step list on how to write a research paper from Cengage.

 

GRAMMAR

 

 

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/8c84a2140b7e0331852569f5005a2ea6?OpenDocument

 Great interactive grammar exercises.

 

http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm

More interactive grammar exercises.

 

http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/index.html

 Wonderful exercises on grammar usage and other writing issues.

 

http://tip.gallaudet.edu/englishworks.xml

 Grammar, vocabulary, reading exercises and a whole lot more.

 

PARAGRAPH STYLE and MECHANICS

 

http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm

 Fantastic interactive paragraph revision exercises.

 

http://books.heinemann.com/writingondemand/

Click on this link to do exercises from Kelly Sassi and Anne Gere's website on composition techniques, particularly peer editing assignments, writing topics, sentence combining exercises, and their "thinking backwards" theory.

 

 

http://faculty.mdc.edu/jgarcia/1341LdocDone/sentence%20skills/sentenceSkills.htm

 Sentence and parts of speech review.

 

 

CAMPUS RESOURCES

Barstow College Library

Barstow College Tutoring Center- online tutoring is available

Barstow College Learning Resource Center