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Gateway to these free academic materials.

Interesting endeavor: One of the world's most renown techno institutions is giving away its course materials. If you're into some of these topics, not necessarily related to college composition, surf this site.

A variety of looks and designs for PowerPoint projects. If you have trouble creating PowerPoints from scratch, this may be a valuable tool.

"Numbers, Facts, and Trends Shaping [our] World." PEW is the most reliable, objective source for macro research I know of; use and feel welcome to cite this source for factual information.

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Excellent content regarding technology and society

I only briefly scanned over this book. It seems this might touch on how the government is focusing on new ways of energy consumption.

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.

Valuable "go-to" for a broad base of writing skills, particularly for the WP2 project.

Source site for American Noise rhetoric; includes rhetoric study resources and a database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, & other recorded media events.

Valuable resource to simplify your citations; use MLA format

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.

Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model for current and future writing assignments.

From author Cara Pring: "We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I've made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article..."

Function word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Writing a paragraph from your paper to see areas where your writing mechanics can improve.

Concise review of the nine parts of speech.

Grammar Girl blog is a wonderful resource for short lessons and reviews on grammar essentials. I learned about this blog at the NCTE 2010 Convention in Orlando, FL.

Play this game and throw Chinese stars while learning parts of speech; includes a free downloadable version of the game.

Find definitions for over 4,219,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms

I read this issue/feature and recommend you check out this article. How can apps enhance your life? Save you money? Keep you organized? Serve as a flashlight? and academic quality? Wired is the foremost trusted publication on technology and society and you can use this review as a trusted culture censor: what Wired (in partnership with Gizmodo) recommends, you should open your mind to.

The author of Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins is one of the world's most respected minds on media studies.