Helpful Websites
Writing – Reading – Speech – Study Skills
Grammar
- Grammar presentations, interactive practice exercises, and help pages for basic writing skills
- Grammar Bytes! An awesome grammar site from Valencia's own Prof. Robin Simmons
Writing
- Proofreading, Editing and Revising
- Presentations, speeches, and Powerpoint tutorials with templates and more
Speech
Reading
Computer Skills
- New! A Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word 2007 Command Reference Guide
- Microsoft Word 2007 Solutions Center
Study Skills
EAP
- Interesting things for ESL students
- Dave Sperling's ESL Café features help with idioms and phrasal verbs as well as an assortment of quizzes.
Research and Documentation (Additional MLA and APA help)
- Covers all stages of research, parts of a paper, and presentations
- Official MLA website
- Official APA website
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation On-Line, includes sample MLA and APA papers
- How to take notes from research reading
Dictionaries and Thesauruses
- Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary and thesaurus, plus fun word games
- On-line dictionary
- Includes dictionaries of idioms and phrasal verbs
- Great books on-line including the American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus