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College English

Tutoring

The English tutors help students in College Foundations upgrading or university transfer English classes understand, review and practice sentence patterns to avoid fragments and run-on sentences and identify parts of speech and basic grammar functions. We help with coursework and give feedback about paragraph and essay writing. You can reach a tutor for writing help by email using our webform, or using our online tutoring service.

Study Resources

There are many worksheets available for practice with common problems both in the Learning Centres and online. Our computer lab is available for writing and printing your papers. For more resources, check out the Library's subject guides on College Preparatory English and Literature & Humanities.

Links

Purdue Online Writing Lab Worksheets to help improve your writing skills, including many aimed at ESL learners
The UVic Writer's Guide Easily-understood information on all aspects of advanced and university-level writing.
Writing About Literature Very complete guide to writing about literature, by the Norton Introduction to Literature people. In-depth discussions about documentation; critical approaches; writing about the genres; and the stages of writing.
Bellevue Community College Writing Lab Writing lab guides to writing and grammar.

Citation Tools

BibMenew The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free. Formatting Styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian
Citation Machinenew Citation machine is designed to help student and professional researchers to properly credit the sources used. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources, that there is virtually no reason not to. Formatting Styles: MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago
Cite Fastnew Automatically format references in MLA, APA and Chicago style
Otto Bibnew Free automatic easy bibliography generator ... enter ISBN number and it creates the citation ... this tool is for BOOKS ONLY. Formatting Styles: APA, MLA, etc ...

Electronic Books

Classic Readernew 3639 books are online here (e.g., Thomas Hardy's Tess, etc ...)
Project Gutenbergnew 30,000 books are online here (e.g., Thomas Hardy's Tess, etc ...)

Literature Links

Everything Shakespearenew This site contains his complete works. Summaries of his work. Free essays on his work. A history of the man himself. Links to other Shakespeare resources. We also have provided a message board for those who want to talk to others about Shakespeare.

Referencing Style Links (for biomedical reports)

Harvard Stylenew Harvard Style (PDF file) ... they have everything conveniently-presented in tabular format
Vancouver Style: How To Cite Referencesnew The Vancouver (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) Style is used primarily for publications in medicine, biomedicine, medical technology and allied health sciences.
Vancouver Style: Citing and Referencing Tutorialnew Vancouver, a "numbered" style, follows rules established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors . It is also known as: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
Vancouver Style: How-To Guidenew Vancouver Style

Worksheets

Also look in the ESL section for more worksheets.

Topic Worksheet Title Location
Composition Ideas for Compositions Broadway
Composition Journal Starters Broadway
Composition My Family (Practice Essay) Broadway
Composition My Place (Practice Essay) Broadway
Essays Biography Research Project Broadway
Essays Essay - Argument Broadway
Essays Essay - Definition Broadway
Essays Essay Outline Broadway
Essays Essay Writing Checklist Downtown
Essays Guidelines for Editing an Essay Broadway
Essays Outlining & Sample Essay Outline Broadway
Essays Practice Essay Topics Broadway
Essays Sample Student Essay Broadway
Essays Starting an Essay Outline Broadway
Essays The Essay: Parts & Function Broadway
Essays The Research Paper Broadway
Essays The Thesis Statement Broadway
Essays TOWER - Building Writing Skills Broadway
Essays Understanding Assignment Titles Downtown
Essays Writing a Summary Broadway
Essays Writing an Essay Broadway
Grammar Adjective Clauses Broadway
Grammar Adjective Clauses (A) Broadway
Grammar Adjective Order Broadway
Grammar Adjectives and Adverbs - More Practice Broadway
Grammar Adverbs Broadway
Grammar Appositives Broadway
Grammar Articles (Answer Key) Broadway
Grammar Articles: Exercise 32 Broadway
Grammar Changes in Verb Tenses Broadway
Grammar Common Irregular Verbs Broadway
Grammar Conditionals Broadway
Grammar Conjunctions Broadway
Grammar Definite Articles Broadway
Grammar Definite Articles in Place Names Broadway
Grammar Gerund Phrase Objects Broadway
Grammar How to Make Questions Broadway
Grammar How to Make Questions with "Be" Verb Broadway
Grammar Indefinite Articles and No Article Broadway
Grammar More Subject-Verb Agreement Broadway
Grammar Prepositions Broadway
Grammar Prepositions used with Certain Verbs Broadway
Grammar Recognizing Passive Broadway
Grammar Recognizing Passive Relationships Broadway
Grammar Subject/Verb Agreement Broadway
Grammar Subject-Verb Agreement Broadway
Grammar Summary Chart of Verb Tenses Broadway
Grammar The Parts of Speech in English Broadway
Letters Business Letter Format Broadway
Letters Personal Letter Format #1 Broadway
Paragraphs Descriptive Paragraphs Broadway
Paragraphs Desiriptive Paragraphs - Describe a Person Broadway
Paragraphs Expository Paragraphs Broadway
Paragraphs Expository Paragraphs - Explaining How-To Broadway
Paragraphs Grammar Checklist Broadway
Paragraphs Model Paragraph & The Topic Sentence Broadway
Paragraphs Narrative Paragraphs Broadway
Paragraphs Paragraphs Broadway
Paragraphs Writing a Paragraph Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech Exercise Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Adjectives Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Adverbs Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Articles Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Conjunctions Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Definitions Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Interjections Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Nouns Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Prepositions Broadway
Parts of Speech Parts of Speech: Verbs Broadway
Punctuation Apostrophes and Posessives Broadway
Punctuation Comma Review Broadway
Punctuation Commas Broadway
Punctuation Commas (C-35) Broadway
Punctuation Commas (C-36) Broadway
Punctuation Commas (C-37) Broadway
Punctuation Commas (C-38) Broadway
Punctuation Diagnostic Test Broadway
Punctuation End Punctuation Broadway
Punctuation Identifying Sentences Broadway
Punctuation Possessives and Apostrophes Broadway
Punctuation Possessives and Apostrophes (2) Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: Capital Letters Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: Italics, Underline, & Quotations Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: More Uses of the Comma Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: Parentheses, Brackets, Ellipsis Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Apostrophe Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Colon Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Comma Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Hyphen and the Dash Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Period, Question, and Exclamation Marks Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: The Semicolon Broadway
Punctuation Punctuation: When Not to Use the Comma Broadway
Punctuation Quotation Marks Broadway
Punctuation Sentence Unity Broadway
Punctuation Using Apostrophes to Show Contractions Broadway
Punctuation Using Apostrophes to Show Posession Broadway
Sentences Clauses: Classifying Sentences by Structure Broadway
Sentences Combining Sentences Broadway
Sentences Fragments Broadway
Sentences Fragments Review #2 Broadway
Sentences Fragments: Fragments Review #1 Broadway
Sentences Kinds of Sentences Broadway
Sentences Run-On Sentences Broadway
Sentences Sentence Combining - Adjective Clauses Broadway
Sentences Sentence Combining - Complex Sentences Broadway
Sentences Sentence Combining - Compound and Complex Broadway
Sentences Sentence Combining - Compound Sentences Broadway
Sentences Sentence Problems Broadway
Sentences Sentence Problems #2 Broadway
Sentences Sentence Word Order #1 Broadway
Sentences Sentence Word Order #2 Broadway
Sentences Word Order Broadway
Spelling Alphabetical List of Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes Broadway
Spelling Alphabetical Order Broadway
Spelling Beginning /k/ Broadway
Spelling ch or tch and List of Words Broadway
Spelling Diagnostic Test Broadway
Spelling Dictionary Skills - Pronunciation Broadway
Spelling End /k/ Broadway
Spelling Hard and Soft Sounds of C Broadway
Spelling Hard and Soft Sounds of G Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: A. Prefixes & Suffixes Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: Apostrophes Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: Capitalization Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: Homophones Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: IE & EI Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: Plurals Broadway
Spelling Mastery Test: Spelling & the Dictionary Broadway
Spelling More Plurals - Words ending in y Broadway
Spelling More Plurals -s or es? Broadway
Spelling Patterns of /k/ Broadway
Spelling Plurals ending in F, FE, O, Irregular Broadway
Spelling Practice for Adding Sufixes Broadway
Spelling Silent Consonants Broadway
Spelling Spelling Demons Broadway
Spelling Spelling Notes Broadway
Spelling Suffix Practice: Final Consonant Rule Broadway
Spelling Suffix Practice: Final E Suffix Rule Broadway
Spelling Suffix Practice: Final Y Rule Broadway
Spelling Suffix Review - Advanced Broadway
Spelling Suffix Review: Adding -ing Broadway
Spelling Suffix Rules Broadway
Spelling Syllables Broadway
Spelling Tricky Patterns of /k/ and /j/ Broadway
Spelling Words with ie and ei Broadway
Vocabulary Adjective or Adverb Broadway
Vocabulary Advanced Vocabulary Test Broadway
Vocabulary Homonyms 1 Broadway
Vocabulary Homonyms 2 Broadway
Vocabulary Homonyms 3 Broadway
Vocabulary Tips for Learning Vocabulary Downtown
Vocabulary Vocabulary Improvement Broadway
Vocabulary Vocabulary Placement Test Broadway
Vocabulary Word Study: Affixes & Roots Broadway
Vocabulary Word Study: Derivations Broadway
Vocabulary Words Often Misspelled Broadway
Vocabulary Words Often Misused Broadway