Links To Help You Be An "A+" Student

Here are some useful links to help you write! The first site, owl.english.purdue is a wonderful site and it has an extensive section to help non-native speakers of English with American formats, idioms, and various grammar conventions. It is very easy to use. All you need to do to access any of these sites is to cut and paste the URL into your browser.

http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu/
http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr4.htm
http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/types.html
http://www.campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/jean.lorrah/persuade.htm
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/awolaver/term1.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Persuasive-Essay

Here are some links to help you write aa "A+" Research paper. These links will help you do well, in addition to our texts we use in class.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/1steps.html
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/termpapr.html
http://www.ri.net/schools/East_Greenwich/research.html
http://www.schoolwork.org/writing.html
http://www.schoolwork.org/writing.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/mlastyle.htm
http://www.geocities.com/athens/Oracle/4184/
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html
http://www.psywww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Here are some good power point presentations you can access if you'd like a visual step-by-step process in using MLA and APA Formats

http://www.miramarcollege.net/depts/library/Resources/Library_Instruction/Tutorials/3_Formatting%20Citations%20in%20Proquest/Formatting_Citations_Using_ProQuest.ppt
http://library.nsuok.edu/clip/powerpoints/Citations.ppt
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/MLA.ppt
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/APA.PPT
http://www.nursing.ttuhsc.edu/glp/APA_Task_Force/APA.ppt
http://mdc.edu/medical/library/APA2005.ppt

Below are some links to help you write a comparison/contrast paper.

http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/Com_Con.html
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/comparcontrast.html
http://www.montreat.edu/tutor/5-4.htm
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/START/Modes.htm

Below are some links to help you write a literary analysis paper.

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/LITPAP.htm
http://classiclit.about.com/library/weekly/aa081700a.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0204/p09s01-coop.htm
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/handmaid.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/lit/adv/lit.papers.html
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/~writingc/handouts/writinglit.htm

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