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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.

Worksheets

The following worksheets are available online. They represent only a small sampling of what we have. The full complement of worksheets is available at the Learning Centre. Also look in the ESL section for more worksheets.

Topic Worksheet Title Location
Essays Essay Writing Checklist Broadway/Downtown
Essays The Research Papernew Broadway/Downtown
Essays Understanding Assignment Titles Broadway/Downtown
Vocabulary Tips for Learning Vocabulary Broadway/Downtown

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