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Resource for short clips, documentaries, and other valuable resources to meet content, skill, and performance objective needs.

This family is recognized in various media outlets as a reliable resource with experience in urban homesteading, specifically regarding food production and alternative energy. This particular page offers details for various food production methods which they use on 1/10 of an acre and supplies about 6,000 pounds of harvest each year.

MIT's App Inventor provides the technological expertise and resources to create Android-based apps.

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Presentation on help researching through the MCC Library. If you're struggling to use these resources, check this out.

The Writing Center tutors students, one-on-one, if students make an appointment. Especially for mechanical issues and those far behind on a paper, this can be a valuable resource.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional materia... Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

This is a helpful gardening resource. This article details the planting method which makes use of a small space and keeps pests away and yields a variety of foods. This article addresses my research question about a simple way to produce our own food even in a small urban setting, by providing information in manageable steps.

One of my subtopics for my research project is food preservation. This resource details one of the easiest ways to preserve food, which is dehydration. This page shows how to specifically preserve food by solar dehydration.

This author is a retired engineer who promotes the idealogy of being prepared for economic disaster. In this article he offers his thesis for his entire web page. His web page offers articles about renewable energy and he explains why it is important to help as many people as possible understand the need to be prepared to use alternative energy resources.

This article is written by two retired professors who have experience starting their own homestead with alternative energy resources. They outline the basic understanding of how solar energy works and how to get started. They provide a very straightforward step-by-step process which addresses my research question regarding ways alternative energy can be simplified and manageable for anyone.

This article provides a good resource for practical gardening advice specifically regarding how to save money by gardening certain vegetables. Author Peggy Deland explains which vegetables will produce more and will be the most cost effective for someone who wants to save money by gardening. This addresses my research question about the uncertain economy and being prepared by having a food supply.

Essential resource to find opposing viewpoints, get credible research, and stay informed on your chosen topic.

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.

This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

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From the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 2012, in Las Vegas, many of the the nation's best language arts minds shared material from their presentations. Use the searchable program (given to you through Diigo as well), find the sessions you're interested in, and come back to this page to see if the session's materials are available. 

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The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. It covers the entire research process including: formulating research questions; sampling (probability and nonprobability); measurement (surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive); research design (experimental and quasi-experimental); data analysis; and, writing the research paper.