- Okanagan University College English Pronunciation Site
- Excellent collection of minimal pair exercises, dictation exercises, and tongue twisters.
- Sharon A. Widmayer's Sounds of English at George Mason University
- A complete course on pronunciation for learners of American English, containing numerous figures, sound files, and explanations in simple, non-technical English. No formal exercises or quizzes.
- Easton's American English Pronunciation
- Very practical, with almost no theoretical explanations. Numerous Real Audio sound clips for a large number of words, illustrating the different sounds of English, and numerous exercises and quizzes based on the sound clips.
- Charles Kelly's American English Pronunciation Practice
- A set of 24 minimal pair lessons suited for Japanese learners. A simple and functional design, without any fancy stuff. There are also the rhymes "Row, Row, Row your boat," & "There was young lady from Niger."
- Phonetics: The Sounds of American English
- Learn to pronounce American English properly. Great visuals! Image of the points of articulation and video clips of humans pronouncing.
- Randall S. Davis's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- The most outstanding and best listening site there is for EFL learners. Lots of sound bytes to listen to and audio-based quizzes to answer. Easily available transcription for self-monitoring. Audio files may be downloaded for use later on.
- Ello
- Ello has a wide variety of reading and listening activities, with very interesting content from around the world . You can download the audio file, and listen to it on your iPod or PC. There are many items useful for doing comprehension, pronunciation, and dictation exercises. Ideal for advanced classes. The only problem may be that it is too cluttered and has certain ad banners.
- Hong Kong VLC_Virtual Language Center's English Conversation
- Very short conversational/dialog examples, under the following categories: Greetings, Weather, Directions, Restaurants, Telephone, & Travel. You can listen to the dialog as a whole or individual utterances, while watching the script. There are no exercises or quizzes.
- Lingua Center's Interactive Listening Comprehension Practice
- Seven complete lessons, entitled e.g., Comets, Ukuleles and Hepatitis Outbreak, each presented in five stages, called Predict, Listen, Check, Extra Help, and More Info, which you are expected to go through in sequence. All the segments come from NPR and ABC information networks.
- Hunter Elliott's The Daily .WAV
- Bonanza for English learners, offering hundreds of short sound clips together with their transcripts. Clips come directly from commercially produced TV series and movies, like Star Wars and Black Adder. Good for dictation purposes.
- The John and Muriel Higgins Home Page
- Inventive listening exercises and games produced by students, under the direction of John Higgins. Available: Logic puzzles, Crossword puzzles, Stirling Treasure hunt, Hidden words, Telephone Messages, and Treasure hunt: the Penny Black.
- ESL Media Resources
- Various News, Internet, and Television sources are listed. .
- Brian Rhodes' Takako's Great Adventure
- A mystery novel in ten episodes shown in a Shockwave window. Total listening time: about 100 minutes! With convenient features for replaying and getting vocabulary assistance. Contains a rich variety of interactive exercises. The heroine is a Japanese speaking English with a Japanese accent!
- ESL Wonderland: Resources for Students and Teachers
- Listening, Reading, and Grammar activities based on listening segments and lengthy reading passages, e.g., from PBS Online NewsHour. There are also links to ESL, Listening, Reading, Discussion & Lesson Plan sites.
- Charles Darling's Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Absolutely outstanding! Usable in place of a grammar reference like Little Brown Handbook. Three main parts: Sentence Level, Paragraph Level, and Essay Level, totaling about 60 chapters. Other attractions: "Random Quiz Generator," "Ask Grammar (Grand Ma?)," 34 volumes of grammar "Q & A," Grammar FAQ," bibliography on writing and grammar, student goofs and quotations. All pages freely printable--for academic purposes!
- 17 Gough Square English Composition Resources
- A quick guide to various writing-related materials. Short summaries, advice, and guidelines. No quizzes or exercises. Writing students may find the following headings useful: Correction Symbols, English Grammar, Getting Started, Invention, Arrangement, and Style; An Open Letter to Aspiring Writers, Recommended Reading for English Composition (ESL), Revision Checklist, Submission Guidelines for Emglish Composition (ESL), Writing Effective Paragraphs, Writing Effective Sentences.
- Sussex Language Institute's English Learning Resources
- Various resources, including grammar and vocabulary exercises suitable for Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, and Advanced level students.
- Anthony Hughes'An Online English Grammar
- The most detailed introductory grammar, containing a wealth of information on the major parts of speech and links to several grammar-related sites
- David Megginson's Hypergrammar at the Univ. of Ottawa
- Extensive use of hyperlinks throughout each chapter, together with ten navigation buttons. Coverage is wide-ranging. Many grammar and composition topics, with some interactive review exercises. Check out the index , which lists 215 grammatical terms.
- Empire State College Workshops
- Has four parts: Essay Writing, Punctuation Points, Grammar Workout, and Style Seminar, each containing several chapters. Down-to-earth style, covering a wide range of topics. Many interactive exercises and a compact introduction to gender-free language (See Style). Ideal for intermediate learners.
- Daniel Kies' Modern English Grammar
- Advanced textbook Kies uses for his course at the College of DuPage. As much theoretical as practical, this is ideal for those familiar with linguistics. Be sure to read: "What Should English Teachers Teach and Why?").
- The Internet Grammar of English at the University College London
- Advanced grammar for the linguistically sophisticated. Accessible free of charge "for a limited trial period only."
- Pearson Brown's Business English Grammar (ALL LEVELS)
- Quite a few business-related English lessons and lots of quizzes related to grammar.
- Grammar Online (INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED; Only three topics)
- Adjective Clauses; The Passive Voice; Verb
Participles
- University of Illinois Lingua Center's Grammar Safari
- Grammar through 'action': Learn grammar by searching the Web for grammar categories. Best used with teachers' guidance. The links "Find" and "Search" teach you how to hunt for grammatical examples and how to compile them into a file. The "LinguaCenter Search Page" gives you practical tips on how to use major search engines. And "Things To Read" , lists numerous links to online text resources where the safari may be conducted. Teachers should visit English Structure for Academic Purposes to see how to use the Safrai effectively.
- The Energy Conservation Enhancement Project's English: Developmental/ Related Activity Guides
- Teaches grammar through 18 lessons that deal with energy conservation. The layout is user-friendly, with neat division headings and several illustrative, multicolored graphics. Each lesson is presented in the form of 'lesson plans,' with clear statements of the goal and objectives, followed by appropriate examples, activities, and exercises. For intermediate students.
- Larry Behrens' SentenceCraft
- Takes an inductive rather than deductive approach to teaching grammar. A large number of examples, taken from about 50 published sources. Altogether 20 chapters, labeled predicates, verbs, main clauses, and so on and 12 exercises.
- Kellee Weinhold's The Tongue Untied: A guide to grammar, punctuation and Style
- Weinhold's class notes, quizzes and practice exercises. Arranged as class materials for ten weeks. There are six quizzes, two exams, and two LSDT (Language Skills Diagnostic Test, the required journalism exam) practice tests, for a total of about 500 questions. Other useful links: "Word Choice List" (about 30 groups of easily confused words and phrases) and a "Spelling List" (200 commonly misspelled words).
- School House Rock's Grammar Rock
- Imaginative site that approaches grammar with humor and song. Covered topics: adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, pronouns, verbs, nouns, prepositions, and the concept of subject and predicate. View the lyrics, listen to songs, and sing along--learning grammar as well! No audio files... only songs!
- English Grammar [in Japanese]
- Brief Explanatory notes on various English grammar issues that affect the Japanese learners. Written in Japanese with a list of items dealt with shown at first. Each item is linked to the explanation, and so students can jump to the target. Ideal for elementary students, who still find reading in English a pain.
- High School English
- Mostly a collection of useful links related to Grammar and Usage Cheat Sheet, Grammar, spelling, Literature, Plagiarism, Reading Comprehension, etc.
- The OWL (Online Writing Lab) Handouts at Purdue University
- This outstanding and pioneering resource, has about 130 handouts related to: The Writing Process, Sentence Construction, Punctuation, Parts of Speech, English As a Second Language, Research Papers, and Spelling. Relatively long and detailed, these are best suited for advanced learners. Teachers can use them as class material.
- Lists of Grammar Lists at Georgia State University
- Extraordinary source of lists "prepared by ESL/EFL teachers to share with colleagues." Major resources: Complete List of English Irregular Verbs, List of Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs, List of Verb+Preposition Combinations, List of Linking Verbs, Count and NonCount Nouns, Noun Spelling--Regular and Irregular Noun Forms, and List of Conjunctions.
- English Works! ESL Grammar Handouts at Gallaudet University
- Short, multicolored, and esthetically pleasing handouts dealing with about 30 basic grammar issues ideally suited for beginners. Many tables and examples, and 11 interactive exercises.
- Grammar Handbook at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Made by a group of 37 students, this handbook "explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage." Each handout is quite compact, having just about 400 words. Ideal for learners at the lower intermediate level.
- Lingua Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Various ESL activities, including for reading and listening, etc. Also links to Grammar Safari and other resources.
- EnglishCLUB.Net's Grammar
- Pages substantially changed since originally introduced. Seems to have gone commercial. Various resources still available free or for free subscribers.
- Mary Nell Sorensen's Grammar Summaries and Explanations'
- Sixteen units dealing with basic grammar. Short comments and explanations, but lots of instructional and useful tables. Several units of special interest to Japanese learners such as "Wish," "Non-Count nouns," and "Say/Tell/Speak/Talk. Here's the framed version.
- Self-Help Handouts: Grammar and Punctuation at Tidewater Community College Writing Center
- Lists 13 links, dealing with parts of speech and such basci concerns. Handouts are multicolored, each in about 400 words, containing essential definitions and examples. The punctuation page, nearly 2,600 words long, gives practical advice on using Commas, Semicolons, Colons, and six other punctuation marks
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- The Study Zone: Grammar Exercises at the University of Victoria (Level 200)
- Excellent series of exercises for several different levels. The "Level 200" page contains five links (a total of 18 exercises), mostly related to parts of speech and forms of verbs. The "Level 330" page contains 30 links, grouped under seven major sections, such as "Verbs," "Conjunctions" and "Punctuation." There are altogether 64 exercises, each with about 10 questions. The Level 410 page, intended for learners at the intermediate level, takes up sentence-level grammar topics at greater length. Here, there are about 40 exercises. The "Extra" page presents a comprehensive index to the grammar materials available at the site, showing most of the links found on the other three pages and a few new ones.
- Bedford/St.Martin's Grammar Exercises
- Professionally made, high quality Shockwave quizzes! Written by Diana Hacker, the page gives the options: "Effective Sentences," "Word Choice," "Grammatical Sentences," "ESL Trouble Spots," "Punctuation," "Spelling and Mechanics" and "Basic Grammar." Very helpful feedback after each question. Highly recommended for intermediate or advanced level learners.
- Kaye M. Mallory's English Zone' Quizzes
- Several Zones, such as Grammar Zone, Reading Zone, Verb Zone, Basic Skills Zone, Fun Stuff Zone, Idiom Zone, Spelling Zone, Writing Zone, Dictionaries, Fun Stuff Zone, Study Skills Zone, Conversation Zone, etc. An ESL Loop site. But most of the materials are locked and reserved only for members, so it can be quite frustrating.
- CNN Newsroom & Worldview for ESL at Brigham Young University, Hawaii
- Lists about 100 gap-filling exercises, under 17 sections labeled "Actives vs. Passives," "Articles," "Tag Questions" and the like. Each exercise presents a contemporary news story of about 500 words, in which about 15 words of a particular grammar category, say, the articles or passive constructions, have been deleted and replaced with dropdown list boxes. The feedback merely states whether the answers are correct or incorrect, without offering any explanatory comments. Best suited for advanced learners and those interested in Global Issues.
- Nicole Vezina's Self-Study Quizzes
- Llists mostly links, with 23 local quizzes, each containing about 20 questions. Best suited for beginners, as they deal with verb forms and such word-level or sentence-level topics.
- Resources for Writers
at Indiana State University
- Shows three links: "Writing Handouts," "ESL Help" and "Take Our On-Line Quiz (under construction)." The first two lead to many exercises and handouts, dealing with "Subjects and Verbs," "Words," "Sentences," "Capital Letters," "Punctuation," "Irregular Verbs," "Modals," "Plurals," "Prepositions," "Tense and Aspect," "Two-Word Verbs," "Other Handouts" and "Articles."
- Scott Foll's Big Dog's Grammar: A Bare Bones Guide to English
- Striking features: brevity, humor and user-friendliness. Fifteen chapters, with titles like "Subjects," "Verbs" and "Prepositions," each in about 500 words. Fourteen of the chapters have interactive "Self-Test" quizzes. "MLA Quick Guide" available.
- Robin L. Simmons' Grammar Bytes
- Has interactive exercises and handouts related to Comma Splices, Fragments, Irregular Verbs, Commas, Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Reference, S-V Agreement, and Word Choice.
- English Grammar & Structure Exercises at Longwood College, Virginia
- Relatively small assortment of exercises and handouts of uneven quality. Has a list of "12 Common Mistakes" made by Japanese learners and includes a few non-interactive exercises tailored specifically for them.
- The Internet TESL Journal (ITESLJ)'s Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students
- Thousands of quizzes under titles such as: "New Quizzes," "Reading Comprehension," "Writing," "General Knowledge," "Holidays," "Trivia," "Grammar," "Homonyms," "Learn About Places," "Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang," "Scrambled Words," "Vocabulary" and "Interactive JavaScript Quizzes for ESL Students." Fantastic site not to be overlooked.
- Charles Darling's Interactive Quizzes
- Lists 174 interactive quizzes written by several professors. Neatly arranged into 11 sections and labeled methodically and meaningfully. Check out the "pop-up lexicon" of 365 words used frequently in Scholastic Aptitude Tests and the Graduate Record Exams.
- Pearson Brown's Business English Exercises
- Has many exercises, under headings such as "Easier Exercises," "Grammar Exercises," "Vocabulary Exercises," "Business English Crossword" and "Spelling exercises." Caters to the needs of business English learners, but all learners can benefit from the resources.. They also have lots of Flash Quizzes.
- Kathleen and Kenji Kitao's "Learning Materials"
- Graded Readers, Reading Materials, Writing Materials, Listening Materials, Vocabulary, Study Abroad, Academic English, Quizzes, Student Projects, and various other materials and links. The Japanese sections of "TOEIC," "TOEFL," and English Newspapers may be useful to all students. Frst person narratives, interspersed with colorful photographs..
- Dave Sperling's ESL Quiz Center"
- Lists two types of interactive quizzes: 29 related to the English language, such as "Grammar," "Idioms," "Reading Comprehension" and "Writing" quizzes; and 13 related to other fields, such as "Geography," "History," "People" and "Science" quizzes.
- Michael A. Riccioli's ' Half-Baked Interactive Tests'
- Divergent sets of quizzes under five headings: "Matching Tests," "Multiple-Choice Tests," "Cloze Tests," "Word Order" and "Crosswords." More than 700 quizzes, each demanding a minimum of five and a maximum of 35 responses. Has a few French words and instructions.
- Michael A. Riccioli's Test Your English
- Four parts labeled "Interactive Tests (44)," "Non-Interactive Tests (48)," "Banners (40)" and "Half-Baked Tests (same as above)." Highly divergent titles: "Medical English," "Computer English," "English Literature Quiz," "American or British English?," "Letter Writing""Word Opposites," "Spelling," "Similes," etc.
- Karin M.Cintron's ESL PartyLand: The Quiz Center
- Offers 75 interactive quizzes, under: "Grammar," "Idioms and Phrasal Verbs," "Vocabulary," "Reading," "TOEFLesque," "Trivia" and "Useful Expressions." Grouped under five levels of difficulty, namely, "Very Easy," "Easy," "Medium," "Difficult" and "Very Difficult."
- Michael Vallance's Online Learning Activities.
- Llistening, grammar, reading and writing exercises. Contents ideal for learners of technical or scientific English. Very slow loading!
- Elek Mathe's English Lessons and Tests
- Hungarian EFL teacher offers about 50 interactive quizzes, grouped by levels of difficulty and themes of content. Grammar and vocabulary dominate, with some crossword puzzles and reading exercises. Suitable for learners at the intermediate or a lower level.
- Eifion Pritchard 's ESL Blues
- Lots of material, including Flash quizzes. Has a diagnostic quiz (25 mcqs) to help you find your English problems. Altogether 78 exercises grouped under 13 categories like "Adjectives," "Verbs," "Readings," "Common errors from compositions" and "Troubleshooting common errors." A well-executed educational page.
- Leo Jansegers' Interactive Exercises and Handouts
- Offers 64 interactive exercises (36 on grammar and 25 on vocabulary). Levels shown by asterisks. "Handouts" (10 on vocabulary, 4 on grammar, 2 on dictation) are non-interactive exercises, for use in classrooms.
- The New York Times Learning Network
- Read the latest news with online assistance (after turning "Vocabulary On" and "Georgraphy On"). Take a "Daily News Quiz" (five mcqs with interactive feedback), read "Student Voices" (articles written by students), do professionally made "Crossword Puzzles." Teachers may get a 2,500-word "Daily Lesson Plan." Check out the Special Packages archive. First-time visitors better read the site guide.
- Bangkok Post Educational Services
- User-friendly (see first the Site Map) and rich resources. Chief attractions: "Improving your English with the Bangkok Post" and a series of "Tips," such as "Teaching Tips," "Reading Tips" and "Tips for Students." Excellent for advanced learners.
- Star Tribune Education Resources
- Meant for USA highschoolers. Two major services: an interactive, news-related quiz with a set of 10 questions and a series of "Star Tribune newspaper articles modified to the 4th-6th grade reading levels with related comprehension questions." For teachers, there are lesson plans and tips for using newspapers in the classroom.
- BBC World Service Words in the News
- Listen to short 100-word news stories, view the text, and get vocabulary assistance. Archives for the years 1999, 1998 and 1997 too are available (about 52 entries for each year).
- USA Today Daily Lesson Plan: "Experience Today"
- Visually appealing four-page lesson plan with the "USA Today graphics and key editorial features, such as Top News, to provide activities which can be integrated into all curriculum areas." Offered in PDF format, it contains "News to Use," "Developing Event," "Student Challenge" (critical thinking questions), "Activities" (discussion questions and activities) and "This Day in History."
- CNN (Cable News Network) Story of the Week"
- About 50 CNN (news) stories, each in about 300 words, with exercises under: "Vocabulary," "Word Selection," "Multiple Choice," "Sequencing" and "Conclusions." Can be used as text material in reading or writing courses. Great for advanced learners.
- English To Go Free Instant Lessons
- Based on news stories from Reuters. Each lesson, about 1600 words long, offers "Pre-Reading Activities," "Reading Activities" (scanning, comprehension, inference and vocabulary tips), "Post-Reading Activities" (grammar and role-play exercises, etc.), and "Teachers' Notes and Answer Key." Archive-access limited to subscribers. Great for teachers who use news stories in class.
- Voice Of America Special English
- Helps you "become familiar with American English as you learn about a variety of subjects, from American history to world news and the latest in science & technology." News is "read at a slower speed than Standard English and uses a simplified vocabulary of about 1500 words." Each broadcast lasts 30 minutes. Has a 280 KB online dictionary of the 1500 words used in Special English.
- British Council Hong Kong "English Feature in Ming Pao"
- "The British Council in collaboration with Ming Pao Newspaper Limited, is producing a biweekly special feature on English writing,.... This feature aims to help all secondary schools students to write better compositions by getting advice from our teachers. In each feature our teacher will comment on two students' works and give tips on English composition. Each feature will focus on a special style of writing including creative writing, academic and argumentative essay, poetry, news and magazine article and examinations composition."
- All the World's Newspapers
- As the name suggests, "All the world's newspapers" available here.
- The Internet Public Library's Online Newspapers
- Enormous collections of newspaper links.
- The Lycos Selection of Newspaper Sites
- "Hand-picked by volunteer editors," the links are listed with a brief commentary after each. Great for students and teachers using global issues, area studies, or world events as subject matter.
- MIT NewsWriting news: A quick primer
- Briefly explains the major issues involved in writing news, such as:
The lead; Who, what, where, when and why; Write for a reader who's intelligent but unfamiliar with your topic; Use the "inverse pyramid" structure; Use direct quotations; Keep it clear and simple; Be objective; Check your facts; and Keep it short
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Charles Darling's Building a Better Vocabulary
- Charles Darling's vocabulary hints. List of Latin and Greek roots. Numerous tips and quizzes.
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Frankfurt Intl SchoolVocabulary for learners of English
- According to the site, it "contains hundreds of vocabulary quizzes to help English language learners learn words effectively and enjoyably." The menu is as follows: First words | Harder words | General academic vocabulary - Subject-specific vocabulary (Learners site) |
Phrasal verbs | Idioms | Proverbs | Make your own vocabulary quiz
Tour | Quiz help | Learning words . Quite layered and the information can be retrieved only slowly and little by little, from several menus and submenus.
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COBUILD Corpus Concordance Sampler
- This is a sampler, listing only about 40 entries, but sufficient for most EFL students. Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus is composed of 56 million words of contemporary written and spoken text. Beware of the syntax when querying a string of words!
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Vocabulary Exercises for the AWL (Academic Word Lists)
- Several sets of vocabulary word lists and a large number of vocabulary exercises and quizzes. Highly recommended for EFL students in universities.
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English Loan words in Japanese
- Diane Nicholls' concise introduction to the English loan words used in Japanese. Listed sections are The history of borrowing in Japanese, Changes in spelling and pronunciation, Shortenings, Pseudo-anglicisms, Homonyms, Partially false friends, Completely false friends, Loan words and the language learner.
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Carla Caglioti 's Preparation for an American University Program
Vocabulary Workshop
- Very simple in design and solely textual, but contains lots of useful data. The major sections are: Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes, Vocabulary, & Exercises. Under each section, there is an extensive list of the items of concern.
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Free access to several dictionaries: Cambridge Learner's Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and Cambridge Dictionary of French/English. No sound files, but many examples.
- The Newbury House Online Dictionary of American English
- Excellent American dictionary, with IPA pronunciation symbols and "Cultural Note of the Day." No sound files
- The WWWebster (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate) Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Advanced American dictionary, intended for native speakers. No IPA symbols or sound files.
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Multi-purpose advanced tool, picking up words from more than 500 online dictionaries!
- Jeffrey Fried's Japanese <--> English Dictionary Also at: linear.mv.com
- Best Japanese <--> English online dictionary, accepting input in Kanji, Kana, or Romaji. A great collection of proper names and other profession-specific word lists.
- Sophia University Entrance Exams Information
- Opening page of Sophia University's Entrance Examination related information. Includes info about the Faculty of Comparative Culture, Open Campus, etc., and leads to copies of previous examinations.
- Sophia University Entrance Exams 2002
- A complete listing and actual copies of all the questions used in the Entrance Examination of 2002. All files are in PDF, Acrobat Reader format. You may, for example, find here all the seven English language examinations (for the different faculties, including the Faculty of Foreign Studies), Japanese language examinations, World History, and Mathematics questions. Great resource to prepare yourself for Sophia Entrance examinations.
- APA Style Sheet: Citing Electronic Resources
- Shows how to cite the following categories of Internet Resources: Internet articles based on a print source, Article in an Internet-only journal, Article in an Internet-only newsletter, Stand-alone document, no author identified, no date; Document available on university program or department Web site; Electronic copy of a journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database
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- A Guide for Writing Research Papers
based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association
- One of the numerous pages at Charles Darling's remarkable site. 1997 version.
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A Guide for Writing Research Papers
based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation
- One of the numerous pages at Charles Darling's remarkable site. 1999 version. Framed page, with the left frame showing many topics. There is also a section for using "materials from electronic, on-line resources."
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Basic Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor
- Among other things, it also deals with citing The World Wide Web (WWW); Email, Discussion Lists, and Newsgroups;
Information Available Using Gopher Protocols; Information Available Using File Transfer Protocols (FTP);
Information Available Using Telnet Protocols; Synchronous Communication Sites; Online Reference Sources;
Electronic Publications and Online Databases; Software Programs and Video Games.
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Purdue OWL: Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
- Has sections dealing with: Paper Format;
Your Works Cited List;
Basic Forms For Sources In Print;
Basic Forms For Electronic Sources;
Other Types of Sources;
Handling Quotations In Your Text;
A Note on Notes.
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Purdue OWL: Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format
- Based on the FOURTH edition of APA style sheet.
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Purdue OWL: Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources
- Offers many links leading to Citation conventions in both MLA and APA, especially as regards electronic resources.
- Typing Lessons Online... Improve your typing.
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- A simple online typing tutor. Helps you master the basic key position, by asking you type the prompt characters.
- Typing Tutor.
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- Learn typing by playing a game online. Not highly attractive, but functional.
- Typing Web.
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- A simple online site for learning to type. Not highly attractive, but functional.
- Peter's Online Typing Course
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- Has 4 pages of instructions on Ergonomics and priniples; Has 18 lessons for mastering the keyboard (inc. Caps, LCs. numbers & punctuation); Has also 6 Exercises to improve typing, including one section which allows you to make your own exercise! No hint is given about the speed of typing! A simple online tool for learning to type. No bells and whistles; but functional.
- Sense-Lang Typing Tutor
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- Another free online typing software program. No bells and whistles; but functional.
- Sense-Lang Typing Tutor
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- Another free online typing software program. Helps you master not only the Regular keyboard, but also the Dvorak keyboar and numeric keyboards. A fun option is to learn typing while playing a game. Quite challenging and interesting. Another great feature is the support for several languages including German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Russian!
- Typer Shark free game
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- An interesting game to improve typing skills. Type the letters or words on the sharks that approach you before they make a meal of you! You can increase the speed to a pretty high level!
- e-Learning for Kids
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- Intended for children, but even adults can use it to develop their keyboarding skills! But you need a long time?Everything in English... so it may be worth listening to all the cute comments.
- Dance Mat Typing
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- Intended for children, but even adults can use it to develop their keyboarding skills! Looks like certain keys on the Japanese keyboard don't match the keys shown, causing trouble. Perhaps the keyboard has to be setup differently?
- Glencoe's Online Keyboarding
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- Another great online program to learn typing, from McGraw-Hill
