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The following grammar, Internet, and writing
resource sites are free of charge and offer useful help with many common
grammar and writing topics. Some of the sites provide very helpful feedback
in the form of interactive grammar quizzes; you may print useful handouts
from other sites. Browse through the sites until you find the ones you
think would be most helpful to you; then, further explore each site.
GRAMMAR SITES
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
This is an excellent online grammar guide.
Many, many topics are covered. There are mini-courses on grammar and mechanics
and interactive grammar quizzes. You will need to use the Index to get
to a topic you are interested in.
Big Dog’s Grammar (Scott Foll)
http://aliscot.com/bigdog/
A highly useful and entertaining site! Discusses
grammar basics and provides interactive quizzes. All is done in a friendly,
relaxed, humorous way. Most topics are discussed in the context of anything
having to do with dogs. Covers the “bare essentials” of grammar and is
user-friendly, too. Check out the MLA Quick Guide at this site
-- This is an excellent site for learning MLA documentation basics.
Grammar Bytes
http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm
This is an outstanding site – provides
interactive exercises, is lively, clear, and easy to read -- includes an index
to basic grammatical terms.
Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack
Lynch
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/index.html
This is also an excellent site and includes
(1) General help; (2) Grammar and Punctuation; and (3) Style. There
is a great section here on transitions.
Bedford
St. Martins Online
Elements
of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Merriam
Webster's Dictionary
Roget's
Thesaurus
The
Everyday Writer
Writing
Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
MLA SITES
Documenting sources from the worldwide web
http://www.mla.org
This is the MLA’s official website.
One of the Frequently Asked Questions About MLA Style is “How do I document sources from the worldwide web
in my Works Cited Page?” Other questions answered on this page concern
using angle brackets to enclose URL’s and documenting sources on the web
that have no page numbers.
MLA Examples from The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Writing Center
http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocMLA.html
Gives help with the technicalities of the MLA
parenthetical documentation style – also gives MLA Works Cited examples.
Modern
Language Association (MLA) Documentation
RESEARCH PAPER SITES A Guide for Writing Research Papers from
Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut, in MLA style
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
Based on MLA documentation (not official MLA
style), this award-winning site offers many useful links to various aspects
of research paper writing. It covers outlining, taking notes, parenthetical
documentation, manuscript format, and more!
A Guide for Writing Research Papers
from Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut, in APA style
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/
Based on styles recommended by the American
Psychological Association, this site discusses the various technicalities
of writing a research paper in APA style.
American
Psychological Association (APA) Style
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
by Michael Harvey, Washington College Professor
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html
MEGASITES These sites provide a wide array of links to
a variety of writing, composition, grammar, and literary topics – to get
to know these sites, be sure to take time to browse through them. They
are complex and encyclopedic.
OWL: Purdue University’s Online Writing Center
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The premiere site for all types of information
on composition, grammar, the Internet, resumes, and writing. Use the index
to search for a topic. Handouts (up to 20) can be printed free if you are
doing less than 200.
Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch
of Rutgers University
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html
This excellent site gives links to just about
everything having to do with the English language, grammar, rhetoric, and
all forms of writing.
University of Chicago: Writing Program
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/
An excellent site with links to grammar resources
on the web, writing guidelines, college writing, and “sentence of the week.”
Online
Writing Tutor
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
http://www.powa.org/
This is an unusual site that includes a real-time
chat room dealing with grammar and writing topics. The wide array of topics
includes: Discovering; Organizing; Revising; Editing; Documenting Sources;
Informal Essays; Thesis/Support Essays; Argumentative Essays; Exploratory
Essays.
English Composition:
Writing for an Audience
http://www.learner.org/resources/series128.html
Peter Berkow, Shasta College English
Instructor, spent ten years developing the curriculum for his Reading and
Composition course (English 1A). His telecourse programs are available 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. The 26 half-hour video programs cover a range of writing
topics, including generating ideas, organization, research, and editing. Look
for the Video on Demand icon (VoD), then simply
sign up for the Annenberg/CPB site--it's free--and follow the link!
From the Desk of L. L. Baker,
Shasta College, Writing Center Coordinator
Our library of texts may
be used in the Writing Center. These books include the following:
* MLA Handbook
by Joseph Gibaldi
* The Chicago Manual of
Style
* The Publication Manual
of the American Psychological Association
* The
Everyday Writer by Andrea Lunsford
* Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences
by Victoria McMillan
* Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for
Writers by Michael Keene and Katherine Adams
* A Writer's
Reference by Diana Hacker
* Writing Research
Papers: A Guide to the Process
by Stephen Weidenborner and Domenic Caruso
* Writing Logically and Thinking Critically
by Sheila Cooper and Rosemary Patton
* How 9 Handbook for Office Workers
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