English & Reading Departments ONLINE HELP & ENGLISH LINKS

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Inver Hills College Home Page:  
Home Page: www.inverhills.edu
Writing Center: http://www.inverhills.edu/StudentResources/WritingCenter/index.aspx
Tutoring Center: http://depts.inverhills.edu/English/engtutoring.htm#Peer Tutoring Center
Smarthinking Online Tutoring: http://depts.inverhills.edu/TutoringCenter/Smarthinking/AboutSmarthinking.htm

Online Grammar, Spelling, & Punctuation Guides:  
Elements of Style by Strunk
Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization by Mary McCaskill (NASA)  
Online Grammar Handbook--www.onlinegrammar.org  
Purdue University Writing Center  

Online Writing Textbooks: 
CollegeWriting.info 
Online Guide to Writing and Research 
Online Technical Writing 
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant 

Online Libraries:  
www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library (IHCC) 
http://www.inverhills.edu/library/searchPathClassic/index.html (How To Use a Library)
http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm

Online Reference Books and Other Research Links: http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/resource.htm 
http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm 

Online Help with Bibliographies & Quotations Using MLA, APA, and Other Styles:
http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/MLA%20handout.htm 
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html 
Online Guide to Writing and Research 
Online Grammar Handbook--www.onlinegrammar.org  
Purdue University Writing Center 

Argumentative Readings Online: CollegeWriting.info/Online Readings 

Bibliographies, Quotations, and Paraphrases--click here: Bibliographies, Quotations, and Paraphrases 

Citation and Documentation: See "Bibliographies, Quotations, and Styles" (click here) 

College Readiness Brochure: Click here for a link to a "College Readiness" brochure. 

Composition Lessons/Methods: http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com, CollegeWriting.info 

Computer account, initialize your own at IHCC: http://www.inverhills.edu/accounts/#ly 

Computers, basic directions: CollegeWriting.info/Online Help  

Dictionaries: http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/resource.htm,  http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm 

Email, your own free account: http://msn.com, http://hotmail.com, http://yahoo.com, http://netscape.com,  http://tripod.com, http://angelfire.com, http://eudora.com, et al.

English as a Second Language (ESL/NNS): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html,
http://www.eslcafe.com, 
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/tutor/problems/esl.html#topten 

English as a Second Language courses at IHCC: http://www.inverhills.edu/catalog/courseDescription/englishSecondLang.htm 

English language, history of: www.m-w.com/about/look.htm 

Evaluating Web sources: www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html, 
  http://www.uwec.edu/Admin/Library/Guides/tencs.html, 
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm, 
http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/infomachine.asp?moduleID=7 

Grammar--click here: "Online Grammar."

Humanities: www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/humanities/LinksToHumanities.htm 

Libraries--click here: Libraries

Literature: www.pilot-search.com, www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/WRITELIT/sectionlinks.htm 

Newsgroups, how to use: www.dejanews.com   

Newspapers online: http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm 

Quotations, Paraphrases, and Bibliographies: www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/MLA%20handout.htm, 
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html,
www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/grammar/#RESEARCH%20&%20BIBLIOGRAPHIES  

Plagiarism, how to avoid: www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/RESEARCH/QuoteParaphrase.htm#Plagiarism  

Reference books/sources online: http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/resource.htm, http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm 

Readings Online:  www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/ (eighty years of speeches), http://www.speakout.com (forum for current controversial issues), and www.nyt.com/books (NY Times).  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/books (Washington Post) (first chapters of new books), http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm (newspapers)
Click here to also go to the link for "Argumentative Readings Online" (above).

Research: http://composition.cla.umn.edu/student_web/libraries_research.htm  

Rhetoric, guide to terms of: http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Search engines: www.google.com (general),  http://www.academicinfo.us/ (academic/undergraduate),  www.thegateway.org (general educational materials), and www.pilot-search.com (literature).  See also the IHCC Library Web site at http://www.inverhills.mnscu.edu/Library/resource.htm.   

"Talking Books," a free program for people with diminished eyesight: www.loc.gov/nls

Tutoring at Inver Hills Community College: http://www.inverhills.edu/StudentResources/WritingCenter/index.aspx  (IHCC Writing Center), http://depts.inverhills.edu/English/engtutoring.htm#Peer Tutoring Center (Tutoring Center), http://depts.inverhills.edu/TutoringCenter/Smarthinking/AboutSmarthinking.htm (Smarthinking Online Tutoring)

Viruses, computer: www.symantec.com/avcenter  

Writing Lessons/Methods--Click here to go to the link for "Composition Lessons/Methods" (above).

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Date this page was most recently revised: 15 July 2007