Gizmo's Freeware has  very comprehensive eBooks web site.

Two resources about writing personal statement

Students get feedback on a variety of genres.

This time of year students often come into the Student Writing Center with questions about personal statements for scholarship applications.  Duke University Writing Studio provides a useful genre analysis of personal statements and how writers can best prepare to write one:  "Professional School/Scholarship Personal Statements" (PDF).  Jo Doran and Allen Brizee of the inimitable Purdue OWL provide a solid overview of personal statements with examples at "Writing Personal Statements."

APA Self-paced tutorials

Walden University Writing Center has posted some self-paced tutorials on a variety of hyper-technical issues in APA style & citation. They are good for helping to learn some of the nit-picky areas of APA.

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.