English

ENGLISH

The Teaching and Learning Center provides many services to aid students in English. We provide free tutoring, as well as internet links, computer software, books, and videos. Students can use these resources alone or with TLC staff to guide them. In addition, many faculty members request their students come to the Center to work with tutors or resources. Students who are brushing up on their skills for the COMPASS placement test are also welcome to use the TLC services.

One of our best internet based programs is SkillsTutor. This program can be used on any computer with internet access. Just come into the Teaching and Learning Center to receive a password and ID.

The following staff tutors are always available for English tutoring:
Director Judy Coomes and Instructional Specialist Jelaine McCamish.

INTERNET SITES

GENERAL

Ask Miss Grammar
Ferris University Writing Resource Links
Garbl's Writing Resources Online
Grammar and Style Notes
Grammar and Writing
Grammar Gorillas
Guide to Grammar and Writing - interactive tutorial from Capital Community Technical College.
I Need Help With Writing!
Interactive Tutorials on the Writing Center at Colorado State University - The site will ask you to use a password. That way, you can get back to any sentences or paragraphs that you typed in.
Plagiarism
Research Papers - title of site: Researchpaper.com
Roget's Thesaurus
Types of Essays - Paradigm
Writing and Grammar

BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDES

EVALUATING INTERNET SOURCES FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

ONLINE WRITING LABS

Guide to Grammar and Writing - interactive tutorial from Capital Community Technical College
Interactive Tutorials on the Writing Center at Colorado State University - The site will ask you to use a password. That way, you can get back to any sentences or paragraphs that you typed in.
Purdue University Writing Lab

WRITING COURSE PAPERS

WRITING PUBLICATIONS

LINGUISTICS

Linguistics

USING MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND LEARNING STYLES TO HELP WITH WRITING

How the Seven Multiple Intelligences Might Appear in a Writer - from Writing and Multiple Intelligences by Gerald Grow Phd.

TLC RESOURCES

CD-ROMs

Multimedia Term Paper

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

SkillsTutor - English, Reading, and Math - you will need to come to the Teaching and Learning Center to receive an ID and password
Writer's ToolKit - Grammar and sentences

VIDEOS

Grammar - I Found a Dollar Walking Home: Solving Sentence Problems

The Research Paper made Easy: from Assignment to Completion (comes with a booklet) - another great source for those pending research papers

Putting Ideas in Order: Outlining Skills

You Be the Reporter - An Interactive Video Writing Workshop

BOOKS

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary

The Allyn and Bacon Handbook

The Beacon Handbook

Citing Electronic Sources

College Vocabulary Skills

Creativity is Forever

Crossing Boundaries

Four Worlds of Writing

Grassroots: The Writer's Workbook

Guide for Change

How to Develop College Level

Vocabulary

Increase Your Vocabulary

The Least You Should Know About English

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

The McGraw-Hill College Handbook

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

The Norton Sampler

Othello Notes

Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers

Technical Writing

The Practical Writer

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing

Troubleshooting Basic Writing Skills

The Writer's Express

Writing Exploratory Essays

Writing Research Papers

The TLC does require that all CD-ROMs, videos, and books be used in the Center. This action allows the resources to be available to all students at all times. In addition, it allows the resources to be used as tutoring tools. They are not available for checkout.

The Teaching and Learning Center is always looking for additional student aids. If you know of applicable CD-ROMs, videos, cassettes, books, or internet sites, please feel free to recommend them to a staff member.