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		Academic Writing \| Paragraphing \| Sentences \| Business Writing \| Dictionaries \| On-line Style Guides \| Activities \| Search Engines Academic Writing Components of Graduate Papers <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/components.html> Keeping a Reading Journal <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/puller.html> Evaluating Sources <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/eval.html> Keeping a Researcher's Notebook <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/notebook.html> Taking Specific Information Notes <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/specnotes.html> Taking Summary Notes <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/sumnotes.html> Trinity College: How to Write a Resume <http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/career/guides/resume.shtml> Paraphrasing Exercieses: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/parap.html> Getting Started: <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/1stqs.html> Brainstorming: <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/brainst.html> Thesis Statements <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/g_b_thes.html> Conclusions <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/conclude.htm> Paragraphing Effective Paragraphs <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/paragrph.html> Sentences English Conjunctions by Linda Bryson <http://www.gsu.edu/%7Ewwwesl/egw/bryson.htm> Sentence Combining <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm> Sentence Combining Quiz 1 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz2.htm> Sentence Combining Quiz 2 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz1.htm> Sentence Combining Quiz 3 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/primer_quiz.htm> Compound and Complex sentences: a quiz to help you distinguish between the two types of sentences. <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_5c.htm> Parallelism from The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm Quiz 1 on Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/parallelism_quiz.htm Quiz 2 on Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm Business Writing Writing a Resume <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/brores_resumes.html> Revision Guidelines <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/revise93.html> Writing About Film <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/film.html> Guide to Gracious Criticism <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/eiphand.html> Paraphrasing <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/parap.html> Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/introcon.html> Business Letters (with links to more detailed examples) <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/business.html> Avoiding Writer's Block <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/avbloc.html> On-line Reference Materials Dictionaries Your Dictionary -- A collection of on-line dictionaries <http://www.yourdictionary.com/> Merriam-Webster/Franklin Spelling Help <http://www.m-w.com/home.htm> My Virtual Reference Desk - A collection of dictionaries, news, facts, etc. <http://www.refdesk.com/> Bartlet's Quotations <http://www.bartleby.com/99/> The Oxford English Dictionary On-line (accessible only from a Tokoha computer) On-line Style Guides The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing <http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html> Activities Hangman <http://www2.allmixedup.com/cgi-bin/hangman/hangman> Creative Writing What makes a good short story? Read and explore. <http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/> Search Engines Altavista <http://www.altavista.com/> Ask Jeeves <http://www.askjeeves.com/> Excite <http://www.excite.com/> Google <http://www.google.com/> Hotbot <http://www.hotbot.com/> Infoseek <http://www.infoseek.com> Lycos <http://www.lycos.com/> Northern Light <http://sirocco.northernlight.com/> Translation Sites These sites can give you a general idea of what an English Web site contains, but should not be used to translate Japanese to English for your own compositions. Excite has the best translation from English to Japanese and Japanese to English.