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.

A proactive troubleshoot on typography and design.

This website, from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, provides an overview of the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication. Fascinating history on visuals' roles in language arts.

A contribution to the EDUCAUSE book, a fascinating and optimistic view on the potential of 21st century education.

Demonstrates how transmedia storytelling has changed how we communicate.

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..."

Concise review of the nine parts of speech.

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

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

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.

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Article on how changing food standards at schools are impacting the philosophies in school cafeterias.

Check out this gateway of guides to help you with research. In-particular, check out "Google Searching" and the English 101 Argumentative Essay guide.

Gateway to e-sources from the MCC Library. MCC students can gain access with their MEID log-ins.

YouTube video for anyone struggling how to insert a footnote into a word processing document. You can also search "footnote" in the help application of your word processing program (e.g. Microsoft Word).

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.

Provides 14 categories to explore for potential topics, multiple points-of-view, and strong examples of argumentation. Found by Amanda Curry.