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STUDY HALL: ENGLISH AND ESL
 

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Multiple Topics

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ENGLISH / WRITING

Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
Tips on using APA Format.

Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html
Located under Resources for Writers--excellent section on Hand-Outs for general writing, ESL, parts of speech, Job Search, Writing, etc.

Research Paper:  What is a Research Paper
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/what.html
Information on how to do a research paper.
and
http://quarles.unbc.edu/lsc/rpwhatis.html
Detailed discussion of what a research essay is.

Writing Research Papers: A Step by Step Procedure
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_ressteps.html
Excellent selection of Purdue University's Online Writing Lab

How to Read Essays You Must Analyze (Virginia Tech)

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/essays.html
Ten steps to help you learn how to read for analysis.

William Shakespeare

http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare/
This site contains an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the Internet and opinions about the sites and indicating what their strengths may be. 

Age of Reason
http://oll.temple.edu/ih/IH52/Enlightenment/EnlightenmentSet.htm
Enlightenment, also called the Age of Reason (1660-1798). John Locke
and Thomas Jefferson are just two of the many notable thinkers and writers who share
Enlightenment values.  The Enlightenment views the individual shaping his world through reason, industriousness and productivity. 

Revolutionary Thinkers
http://oll.temple.edu/ih/IH52/Revolutions/RevolutionSet.htm
Writings representative of Revolutionary Thinkers include:  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto; Charles Darwin, Selections; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontent.

Romanticism
http://oll.temple.edu/ih/IH52/Romantics/RomanticSet.htm
The movement in the arts and in philosophy called Romanticism emphasizes the inner world of feelings, imagination and our deeper sense of ourselves some call the soul.  Representative authors are:  William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.

The Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/handouts.html
Cover Letters, Use of Articles "A," "An," and "The," Critiques, Writing with Gender Fair Language.

Sweet Briar College Academic Resource Center
http://www.arc.sbc.edu/
English writing and ESL links; study skills links

Writing Labs & Writing Centers on the Web
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/writing-labs.html
A list of links to writing labs.

ENGLISH AS A SECOND (FOREIGN) LANGUAGE (ESL or EFL)

The Comenius English Language Center
http://www.comenius.com/
Fluency through Fables, The Weekly Idiom, key-pal listings

Free English as a Second Language (ESL) Lessons
http://www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm

ESL Student Study Hall (George Washington University)
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gwvcusas/
Great animation to show reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and discussion lists.  Outstanding links!

Kathy's ESL World
http://www.eslworld.com/
Lots of things to do and places to go to learn English including great American recipes and words to various songs by American singers and song writers.  Everything is based on learning English.

TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links 
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Links/Students.html
A comprehensive list of links of interest to students & teachers of English as a Second Language

GRAMMAR

Grammar and Style Notes, by Jack Lynch
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
An excellent reference book for all students and writers!

Strunk, William 1918.  The Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/
One of the best grammar books ever written -- short, but concise!  The entire book is on-line!  This is a must have for your web site bookmarks.

WWWebster Dictionary -- Search Screen
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
An searchable online dictionary.

Another must have!
An On-Line English Grammar
http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/toc.html
Parts of speech broken down to specifics, plus practice pages.  Excellent!

THE LEARNING CENTER
http://www.edunet.com/learning/index.cfm
English grammar with practice tests.

PRACTICE TESTS

English and TOEFL practice Tests

http://www.edunet.com/learning/index.cfm
This site contains a wide variety of tests, quizzes and games for helping with language learning.  TOEFL® practice tests and English language diagnostic tests can also be found in this section.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Library of Congress Home Page

http://lcweb.loc.gov/
the Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library preserves a collection of more than 119 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map, film and television collections in the world.  In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill. 

Learning Centers

Santa Ana College Tutorial Learning Center

Santa Ana College Success Center

Santa Ana College Academic Computing Center

Santiago Canyon College Computer Lab

Santa Ana College Library

Santiago Canyon College Library
 


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