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| English Department Homepage English, Speech, and Communications Courses English Resources for Students |
English Resources for Students GENERAL 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.chompchomp.com/menu.htm More interactive grammar exercises. http://cctc2.commnet.edu/sensen/index.html http://tip.gallaudet.edu/englishworks.xml
PARAGRAPH STYLE and MECHANICS http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm 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
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