Success over
the Internet
Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
Create your own Cornell Format note taking
sheets at this site:
http://www.eleven21.com/notetaker/
Academictips.org provides information on note
taking techniques, methods of taking notes, using group notes, secrets to taking
better notes, noteworthy notes, preparing for class and using colors.
http://www.academictips.org/acad/literature/notetaking.html
Dartmouth College provides information on
taking lecture notes, listening and the Cornell format.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/notes.html
Berkeley College offers 5 Tips for
Effective Note Taking:
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/notes-tips.htm
Kalamazoo college has a good Web site with examples of telegraphic sentences and signal
words for note taking:
http://puma.kvcc.edu/success/Notetaking/Notetakingtips.htm
Learn how to draw mind maps with
Mind Tools:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm
Learn about mind maps and watch a video by Tony Buzan, the inventor of mind
maps.
For information on the connection between note taking and memory, visit this site:
http://memory-key.com/StudySkills/notetaking.htm
Writing
"You Quote It, You Note It" is an interactive
tutorial to help students understand plagiarism and how to properly quote
materials. Students begin by selecting an avatar which leads them
through the steps of making proper citations and avoiding plagiarism:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/
The College Atlas contains
information on general study skills, reading and writing, test taking and
preparation, time management, memory techniques and study skills for specific
subjects:
http://www.collegeatlas.org/college-study-guides.html
Scenarios for classroom discussion
relating to academic integrity are available at:
http://www.academicintegrity.org/educational_resources/educational_materials/casestudies.php)
The Virginia Tech site has resources on writing research papers, researching
on the Internet, citing websites, writing basics, writing for the Web,
the five paragraph essay, essays for literature, persuasive essays, and
position papers.
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
Purdue University offers comprehensive online resources for writing
including starting the writing process, dealing with writer's block,
developing a paragraph, doing research, writing a term paper and using
citations. There are approximately 35 helpful topics at this site:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/679/01/
The Write Place Catalog produced by St. Cloud University has handouts on
just about every aspect and type of writing:
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPA.html
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
provides many useful handouts on a variety of writing topics. Topics
include writing the paper, citations, specific writing assignments such as
business letters, speeches, scientific reports, etc.:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html
Capital Community College has a collection of online
resources for writers from a variety of different colleges:
http://webster.commnet.edu/faculty/simonds/writing.htm
Capital Community College provides a guide
to grammar and writing:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
The University of Chicago has a "Short Guide to College Writing:"
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/
Cabrillo College offers tools for college
writing including 8 steps for writing an essay and how to develop strong
introductions, thesis statements and conclusions.
http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/writingcenter/290/essays.html
Need to write a paper in APA style?
This site introduces you to APA documentation and shows useful examples:
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPA.html
Use the citation machine to create your references in MLA or APA
style:
http://citationmachine.net/
Jack Lynch of Rutgers University
maintains an alphabetical Guide to Grammar and Style at:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.html
Visit the Quotations Page to find quotes for your papers and speeches:
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/
Speaking
The Virginia Tech site has many resources for making presentations and
speeches.
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
Visit The Art of Communicating Web site to learn how to make effective
presentations. It is brief, useful and written with a sense of humor:
http://www.presentingsolutions.com/effectivepresentations.html
The Job Interview site has a collection of links to material on public speaking and dealing with the fear of public speaking: http://www.jobinterviewtools.com/guideto-public-speaking.htm
Visit the Public Speaking Web site to learn how to assess, analyze, research, organize and deliver your speech: http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/
Study Guides and Strategies provides some
brief, but important tips for public speaking:
http://www.studygs.net/speaking.htm
Access the best speeches made in history
at the History Channel Web site:
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
Learn about tips for improving your speeches or join the Toastmasters at: http://www.toastmasters.org/