English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com

English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com is a fine list of idiomatic phrases used in English. Basically, idioms are expressions which are hard to decipher based upon a dictionary definition. Non-native speakers often struggle with idioms.

Citing Sources- The OWL at Purdue

Hey everyone; I had a student ask about citing sources yesterday and I wasn't able to find a great book right off hand, and I wasn't on my home computer to show them the site I use EVERY TIME I write a paper! So, here's the site, The OWL at Purdue...the greatest site I've found to tell exactly how, in ANY situation, to cite sources it-text and on works-cited pages. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/

Citation Practice: Crediting your sources

Citation Practice: Crediting your sources A quiz related specifically to crediting sources properly.

Assignment Planner

Here is a very cool Assignment Planner from the University of Kansas Writing Center that spits out a process schedule for student writers.

Bedford Bibliographer

Bedford Bibliographer is another citation builder. It requires a login, however.

Son of Citation Machine

Son of Citation Machine this one is a commercial site that creats citations as well. (It seems to be supported by advertising, however.) It doesn't give assurance of accuracy, but that is no doubt true of most programs like this.

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries is an interesting tool to build citations in various formats.

OWL at Purdue University: Annotated Bibliographies

OWL at Purdue University: Annotated Bibliographies

And this AB resources is from Purdue OWL.

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
A somewhat comprehensive quite to writing an annotated bibliography. I wonder, however, if "critical appraisal" will be misunderstood as a simple value judgment of the text rather than an exploration of the complexity of ideas.

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