Plagiarism Sites
Resources for Teaching with Writing
Good Grammar Sites
Citation and Documentation Style Guides
Advice on Evaluating Websites

 

 

Plagiarism Sites

Beford/St. Martins Workshop on Plagiarism

A workshop focusing on using online course tools. Also contains useful links on plagiarism:
http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/hccworkshop/plagiarism.htm

 

Resources for Teaching with Writing

Teaching guides on designing and responding to assignments, teaching specific writing skills, teaching with technology, and more:

University Writing Program at Virginia Tech
http://www.english.vt.edu/~1styear/cover.html

Helpful Website for Writers and Teachers of Writing
http://wic.orst.edu/wic_teaching_help.html

Useful Links at USF
http://web.usf.edu/~lc/wac/

Guides for Teachers
http://writing.colostate.edu/teaching_guides.htm

WAC and the Library
http://www.siue.edu/COMP/netbib.htm

Creating "Feedback Forms"
http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/wm7.htm

Writing Guides at Colorado State University
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/documents.cfm

Science Writing and Publishing Guides
http://mel.lib.mi.us/science/writ.html

Teacher Resources at University of Hawaii
http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm

Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines at the University of Minnesota
http://cisw.cla.umn.edu/WID/WIDindex.html

An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum at Colorado State University
http://wac.colostate.edu/intro

Good Grammar Sites

Grammar Safari

LinguaCenter's (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) page with various activities to help you with grammar.
http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing
A short page offering good examples of shifts in verb tense and "things we have to remember about pronoun reference," along with links to quizzes and other grammar resources. http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Big Dog's Grammar: A bare bones guide to English
This site covers the following grammar points: Subjects, Verbs, Prepositions, Fragments, Comma-splices/Fused sentences, Joiners, Agreement (Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent), Dangling and Misplaced modifiers, Parallel structures, Reference, Pronouns, Consistency, Active/passive constructions. Interactive exercises allow the reader to see how well s/he has understood each point (except for Joiners).
http://aliscot.com/bigdog

 

Citation and Documentation Style Guides

APA, MLA and Chicago
Diana Hacker's Online Guide to Research

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc

MLA
A Practical Guide to MLA Documentation
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla

APA
A Guide for Writing Papers Using APA Style
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm

Help with Citing Web Sources in APA Style
(Web Extension to American Psychological Style)
http://www.beadsland.com/weapas

Chicago
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/guides/chicagogd.html
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/history/sample.htm

Columbia Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Nursing
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/nlm.html

 

Advice on Evaluating Websites

For a useful list of website evaluation resources, see Virginia Montecino's page of "Guidelines for Evaluating Websites" at http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/webcritique.htm

Below is a list of helpful websites evaluated by Virginia Montecino (selected from the above website):

Bibliography on Evaluation Internet Resources
Nicole J. Auer, Library Instruction Coordinator, Virginia Tech University Libraries

http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

Evaluating Web Pages: Experience WHY it's important

(an exercise in sleuthing) - Teaching Library Internet Workshops, UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools

Cornell U. Library Reference Services
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/

Evaluating Web Resources

Widener University/Wolfgram Memorial Library
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
Milton's Web - Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.library.jhu.edu/librarydean/exrel/about/overview/index.html

 

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