Helpful Resources

 

Citing Resources

APA

·        Practice (http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/rs_menu.asp)

·        Sample citations and works cited list (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html#Your%20Reference%20List)

·        Format Rules (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html#General%20Format)

 

MLA

·        Practice (http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/rs_menu.asp)

·        Sample citations and works cited list (http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html)

·        Format Rules (http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/format.shtml)

 

Plagiarism

·        Explanation (this is not an official definition). In the United States, you will be accused of PLAGIARISM if you use other people's words and ideas without acknowledging their original source (i.e., author). In many other countries, unrecognized use of other people’s words and ideas is considered to be OK at school. It is NOT the case in the United States. In the US, you will suffer serious consequences if you are accused of plagiarism (e.g., you may be expelled from an American university). For this reason, please make sure that you ACKNOWLEDGE the use of other people's thoughts. To understand better what PLAGIARISM means, please go to the following website and read through the examples of what is considered to be plagiarism, and what is not: (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html)

·        Practice (http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/rs_menu.asp) 

      (Click on the style you are interested in (APA or MLA) for corresponding exercises)

·        KSU Policy on Plagiarism (http://imagine.kent.edu/policyreg/view.asp?BackURL=/policyreg/search_act.asp?Keyword=plagiarism&DocNo=&DocDate=&Table=Archive&ID=46&strSearch=plagiarism)

 

Grammar 

KSU's Writing Center

(http://dept.kent.edu/english/WritingCent/writngcenter.htm)

 

Diana Hacker's website has many helpful exercises.

(http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref)

 

Purdue’s OWL website has many useful tips and exercises. (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html)

·  Articles (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslart.html)

 

·  Commas (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html)

·  Subject-verb agreemen(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslsubverb.html)

·  Non-count nouns

-         with plurals, articles, and quantity words (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount.html)

-         with articles and adjectives (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount2.html)

·  Determiners (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/determin/xdetm1.htm)

·  More on punctuation (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html#punctuation)

·  Colon, semicolon, parenthesis, dash, quotation marks, and italic(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_overvw.html)

·  Prepositions:

-         of direction (to, on, in) (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep.html)

-         of location (at, in, on) (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep2.html)

-         of time and place (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep4.html)

-         of spatial relationship (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslprep3.html)

·  Phrasal verbs (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslphrasal.html)

·  Passive verbs (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html)

Transitions (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_transition.html )

   

    For a Beginning Writer (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html)

   

    Practice (http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp)

   

    About.com (www.about.com)

 

Sample Papers

(http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/model.html)

 

Resume/CV Websites

KSU Career Center

(See resume/cover letter samples and also get personal help with your job-seeking process)

http://dept.kent.edu/career/RIM/RIMnav.cfm

 

Internet Resume Samples

http://www.resume-resource.com/examples.html

 

http://resume.monster.com/archives/samples/

 

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResumeW/index.html

 

Avoid These 10 Resume Mistakes

http://www.quintcareers.com/resume_mistakes.html