Communicating with professors, students, potential employers, and others often requires more formal writing than you might use with friends. The following presentations from Purdue OWL offer advice on email etiquette:

• Email Etiquette
• Email Etiquette for Students
• Email Etiquette for Professors

Tutorials

If you want to learn more about common software programs, use the tutorials below:

• WebCT Online Tutorial

• Microsoft Works
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Internet Explorer

• Google Apps Training
• Tutorials for OpenOffice
• Portable Apps Tutorial

• Designing an Effective Powerpoint Presentation (Purdue OWL)

Free Software

Word Processing and more...

Online

One advantage of using online applications is that you can access your work from any computer in the world.

• Google docs (word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation apps)
• Zoho (online office suite, productivity tools, and utilities)

Desktop

• OpenOffice (a suite of applications similar to MS Office)
• Rough Draft (word processing for writers)
• yWriter (word processing for writers)

Portable Software

Whether you have a computer or now, it can be useful to be able to carry your software with you on a flash drive. To do so, see

• Portable Apps

For more lists of free software, see Applications.