English Composition - Hudson County Community College

Subject Guide: English Composition

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Databases

Bloom's Literary Reference

This database examines great writers, important works, characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Sections include writing help, topic and themes, and multimedia on authors, works and eras.

Britannica Online

Gale Literary Databases

Search this encyclopedia for quotations, selected eBooks, primary sources by either title or author, as well as a biographies section, which may be searched by topic, culture, era, or gender.

This resource includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.

iThink

Literature Resource Center/Gale

An interactive skills tutor that assesses and builds critical thinking. Using an avatar, this session moves users through a step-by-step process of organizing ideas and putting them on paper.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, biographies, while supporting information literacy and critical-thinking skills.

Literary Reference Center

MyAnalysis

A step-by-step interactive feature aimed at helping students with critical thinking throughout the research process.

Note Organizer NoveList Oxford Digital Reference

Salem Literature

SIRS Renaissance

An interactive note-taking tool that helps with organizing your research.

A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and more for over 135,000 fiction titles.

This collection of databases contains resources for American, British, and Children's literature, as well as eras such as the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

Offers 678 profiles of major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world, and analyses of their significant novels and novellas. Discusses the novel in overview essays by time period, country, ethnicity, and genre.

Provides information on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.

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Reference Books

The Brief Penguin Handbook PE1408F25

College Reading & Study Skills LB2395.3.M386

With exercises, visual guides and models for writing, research, and documentation, distinctive coverage of writing for different purposes.

A developmental level reading and study text depicting reading as a process and providing concise instruction, skill application exercises, and exercises using textbook excerpts to contribute to success in college.

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations LB2369.T8

Rules for Writers PE1408.H2773

Subtitled, Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, this book provides a step-by-step process for conducting research. Topics include the nature of research, taking notes, developing an argument, drafting and revising, and presenting evidence with tables and figures.

This resource provides help with academic writing and research and one that works for a wide range of multilingual students and helps solve writing problems in any college course.

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Electronic Books

The Basics of English Usage

English Grammar Drills

English Sentence Builder

English Verb Drills

The Grammar Crammer

How to Research

How to Write Essays Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated

This books deals with the rules and conventions of basic English, and also the preferred style of writing the language.

While the book covers most areas of English grammar, it has a heavy concentration on those aspects of grammar that have proven to be the greatest obstacles for intermediate and advanced nonnative speakers.

The goal of this book is to guides you through the various types of structures in the English language and illustrates how those structures combine to make sentences. Exercises and examples or given.

English Verb Drills is designed to promote skills for effective usage of verbs. It is designed for all learning levels to review and practice conjugational forms, tenses, voice, mood, and verb usage.

Subtitles: How to Write Perfect Sentences. This book focuses on the rules in standard school English that cause the most grammatical errors.

This book focuses on the processes of research as well as research methods. It is suitable for research in the social sciences, as well as in related subjects such as education, business studies and health and social care.

A step-by-step guide for all learning Levels, providing key essay writing skills with sample essays available.

The material is presented in an easy, step-by-step format, so the learner will gain an understanding of the basic principles of the English language while advancing through the readings and exercises. Answer key available.

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Videos

English Homework Help

From Discovery Education, these video chapters and web resources will assist students with their written and verbal communication skills. Content areas included are grammar, composition, and mechanics.

English Language Arts

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. This website provides thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons and individualized learning programs.

OWL Purdue

This section contains links to all the media files found on the Purdue OWL. In this section, you can click on links that will take you to a resource where you can view or download a PowerPoint presentation or workshop, sample paper, sample employment document, videocast, podcast, or Flash movie.

Writing Essentials

Practical skills are emphasized, for academic and non-academic writing, such as gauging the needs of the reader, keeping prose short and simple, emphasizing benefits, avoiding jargon and overblown language, employing a confident yet respectful tone.

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Websites

A+ Research and Writing

Step-by-step approach to writing, from choosing a topic, gathering information, creating an outline, to editing and proofing.

College Writing Reference Center

Guide to Grammar & Writing

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay

Merriam-Webster Online Writing Lab (OWL)

From Prentice Hall, this website offers help with composition skills such as: exercises for basic grammar, research, mechanics, as well as additional study tools.

This site has guidance from sentence building to research structuring. The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation.

Step by step, section by section break down of how to write an essay with sample essay and additional resources.

Free online dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English and visual dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and more.

This site, from Purdue University, offers over 200 free resources including guidance in writing, research, grammar, style guides, and more.

Principles of Composition

Townsend Press Learning

An entire website for writers in English composition courses, featuring handouts on getting started, structure, tone, transitions, editing, logic, and formats. Exercises and practice for reading, grammar, vocabulary, and English usage.

From the University of North Carolina, these handouts and demonstrations provide guidance through a The Writing Center multitude of writing concerns, from citations to formats, to writing for specific disciplines.

Writing Guides

From Kansas University, helpful writing guides from essays to dissertations, with citation help and links to more useful resources.

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Style Guides

Citations Examples

for APA

for MLA

Citation Generators

Citation Machine or Bibme

Noodle Tools APA MLA

Noodle Tools formats and alphabetizes bibliographies in MLA, APA, and CMS styles for over 50 types of sources. Users can save bibliographies online or import to Word. Noodle Tools includes an integrated notetaking feature and online help linked next to each input field of the template.

This site, created by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue University, offers style guidance for APA, MLA, and OWL- APA and MLA CMS citations, bibliographies, research paper formatting, and more.

Research and Documentation

Research Tutorial: Citing Your Sources

Website informed by Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, offers help with finding, evaluating, and documenting resources, as well as sample style papers.

From Eastern Washington University, this resource provides interactive tutorials for MLA and APA citations, then offers hands-on ordering of citation elements.

The Writer's Handbook

From the Writing Center of the University of Wisconsin. This resource demonstrates several citation styles and tips for improving your writing.

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