GENERAL WRITING WEBSITES

Purdue On-line Writing Lab: Great site for handouts on academic writing and MLA and APA citation guides. Also includes ESL resources. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Dartmouth Writing Program: Very good for information about academic writing and writing in social sciences, sciences, and the humanities.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/toc.shtml

John Jay College E-Resource Center: Great interactive website that offers help with grammar, composition, and ACT prep. http://resources.jjay.cuny.edu/erc/

University of North Carolina Writing Center: Excellent information on paper writing, including the writing process and issues of style and sentence-level concerns. http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

University of Minnesota: Links to a variety of internet sites that address plagiarism, documenting sources, applying to schools and for jobs, creating a plan for writing, and grammar. http://writing.umn.edu/sws/online_resources.htm#english

CUNY Write Site: General help and information for CUNY writers. Includes some ACT and CPE test prep information. http://www.writesite.cuny.edu/

 

GRAMMAR WEBSITES

Diana Hacker Website: Diana Hacker, author of many of the writer resources we have at the Writing Center, offers up supplementary on-line grammar exercises that relate to the information in each of her books. You do not have to own the books to use the website. http://www.dianahacker.com/student.html

ESL Café: Idioms, verb phrases, pronunciation, and quizzes. http://www.eslcafe.com/students/

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Lots of explanations and interactive quizzes. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

 

COMPASS READING TUTORIALS AND PRACTICE

Hostos Compass Reading Exam Review Site: http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/oaa/compass_reading/