Research Skills

The Internet Resources
Writing Skills

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Online reference guide and workbook to English Grammar and Punctuation.
Elements of Style - The original version of Strunk & White's famous work.
Links for Writing - Links to handouts from various online Writing labs,by subjects such as various types of papers, planning and writing thesis statements and drafts, and more.
Owl: Handouts: Research and Documenting Sources - Links, handouts, and exercises about research skills and writing papers.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab - Clear and helpful information and exercises to improve your writing and grammar.

Research Writing: Step by Step - Before you can start writing, you have to explore the subject to find a topic, locate relevant information, analyze the issues and organize your arguments. Once that is done, this site gives hints for actually writing the paper as well.
The Seven Steps of the Research Process - Cornell Library gives a seven step outline and effecive strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting sources you find.
Kartoo - Excellent Research Tool

Evaluating Web Sites

Critical Evaluation Surveys - From Kathy Schrock's Guide, links to information about evaluating websites, including downloadable surveys to use.
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Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources - Discusses three major points to consider when chooing web sites.
T is for Thinking - This is an excellent tutorial on using critical thinking when evaluating Internet resources.
UCLA College Library Instruction - Thinking Critically about WWW Resources: This is an outstanding set of points to consider in evaluating web sites.

Copyright

The Copyright Website - This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.....A good but graphics-intensive site.
FAQ About Copyright Issues - From the University of Texas, information about copyright for teachers and students.
U.S. Copyright Office - This is the site for the United States Copyright Office with all its information.

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