Dictionary
Study Strategies
- UT Learning Center: Resources
(Excellent handouts and links on studying, taking tests, and learning) - Wired Study Tips from Texas A&M University (This link opens up to podcasts on iTunes.)
Books
- What every ESL student should know: A guide to college and university academic success (in the Kean library)
- <BetterWorldBooks (for buying books without paying a fortune)
- Bookfinder (for finding the best price on books)
Rhetoric and Composition Sites
- Writing @ Kean
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Purdue's Online Writing Lab
- The Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
- Faculty Academic English
- Learn to Write a Great Essay Using the Topoi
Style & Usage Sites
- Strunk's The Elements of Style
- Guide to Grammar & Writing at Capital Community-Technical College
- 10 Steps to Writing an Essay by Tom Johnson
- 11 Rules of Writing
- Common Errors in English
Documentation Sites
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documention Online
- rapidcite.com
- easybib.com
- StyleWizard.com
- bibme
- Citation Builder
- Citation Machine
- Bedford Bibliographer
- OSLIS Citation Maker
Research Sites
- Kean Library Homepage
- Facts.com
- Doing Research Online
- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
- Search Engine Watch
- The Spider's Apprentice: A Helpful Guide to Web Search Engines
- Web Search Strategies
- Interactive Demonstrations
- Searching Google
- Searching JSTOR (video)
- Google Scholar and JSTOR (video)
Search Engines
- Answers
- Ask Jeeves
- Behold (search Flickr images)
- Bing
- Blinkx (videos)
- Clipblast (videos)
- Clusty
- cookstr (recipes and cooking)
- Cuil
- Ditto (an image searcher)
- exalead
- Factbites
- Gigablast
- iBoogie
- iconfinder
- KallOut (PC only)
- Kartoo
- MP3Realm (music and videos)
- Muvibee (music and music videos)
- Political information
- Powerset
- Quintara
- Quotiki (quotes)
- Recipezaar (recipes)
- Seeqpod (searches multimedia plus)
- SkreemR (MP3 search engine)
- Teoma
- Tickex (finding tickets online)
- Tunefind (TV shows and movies)
- Vivisimo
- Whatsopen (finding stores)
- Yahoo
- Yahoo Image Search (click on advanced options to find Creative Commons photos)
- Also see 50 Niche Search Engines
Presentations
Using Powerpoint
Giving Presentations
- How to Prepare an Oral Presentation
- Designing Effective Oral Presentations
- Ten Commandments of Client Presentations
- ESL Teaching/Learning Resources: Speaking
- Why Visual Aids Need to be Less Visual
- Presentation Tips by Garr Reynolds
- Presentation Sample Slides by Garr Reynolds
- Fotonauts (for finding creative commons images)
- How not to use Powerpoint by comedian Don McMillan
Images
For finding free-to-use photos on the Internet, check out the following (be sure to designate "creative commons" in your search):
Blogs and Wikis
Web Design
HTML
- HTML: Getting Started
- Writing HTML (also in Spanish and other languages)
- Getting Started with HTML
- HTML Goodies
- Articles: Learning HTML
Freeware
- Core FTP (free)
- Essential freeware for the PC user
- Portable Apps Suite
- Zoho (online office suite, productivity tools, and utilities)
- OpenDisk (Free Open Source Software)