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Thomson Nelson > Higher Education > Canadian Writer's Pocket Guide, Second Edition >  Student Resources > Using Computers and Internet Resources
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Student Resources

Using Computers and Internet Resources

Canadian Sources for Online Help

 

Essay Writing

Advice on Academic Writing
This site answers the kinds of questions that university students ask about their writing assignments. Most answers are written by instructors at the University of Toronto, and include advice on essay writing, using sources, specific academic forms, style, and editing.

Research Paper Basics
This site from Algonquin College provides a compact list of links on how to plan, organize, and write research papers.

Techniques for Generating Ideas for Your Essay
York University’s page outlines various strategies for getting started.

U Vic’s Writer’s Guide
This guide is a comprehensive introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature from the University of Victoria. Heavily cross-referenced with hypertext links, it is one of the Web’s most useful resources.

Writing a Research Paper
The University of Alberta Library provides a brief guide and checklist.

Documenting Sources

Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources
The University of Alberta library offers many examples for citing electronic sources, based on the APA style.

Writing and Citation Guides on the Internet
This pages is a list of links from the University of British Columbia intended for political science students, but useful for everyone.

 

Grammar Advice

Comma Crunching
Arnie Keller’s advice for how to make your commas behave themselves teaches procedures and gives practice for putting the little guys in their place.

How to Write a Book Review
This site is a step-by-step guide from Queen’s University.

HyperGrammar
The University of Ottawa’s online grammar manual reviews the parts of speech and the standard rules of correctness and spelling; it also includes tests with explanations of correct answers.

U Vic’s Writer’s Guide
This guide is a comprehensive introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature from the University of Victoria. Heavily cross-referenced with hypertext links, it is one of the Web’s most useful resources. It also includes a brief, rudimentary account of the way in which English sentences work and a Grammar Glossary.

 

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Student Resources

Grammar Review

Documentation: APA and MLA Style


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