Bobby Miller
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Links to Other Resources
In this section, I have categorized various links that students may find helpful for academic work and general productivity. Some of the websites are already well known, but I hope you discover some new gems too.
General Writing Assistance
The University of North Carolina’s Writing Center
This essential resource delves into nearly every writing topic imaginable. Some of the subject matter can be viewed in video format.
Purdue OWL: Online Writing Lab
One of the most trusted writing sources online, this website provides assistance with grammar, style, MLA formatting, and writing for specific situations.
Common Errors in English Usage
Paul Brians of Washington State University covers tons of misused words and phrases that plague many people’s writing. The material on this website is also available as a physical book or eBook.
This handy website streamlines the process of citing sources in MLA format. Remember, though, that it is capable of making mistakes, so check over what it gives you.
Wording Assistance
Noun, a website containing the meaning, pronunciation, and etymology of each word it recognizes as part of the English language. The fact that it allows you to hear many words spoken aloud can be helpful for preparing presentations.
If you need to vary your diction, the good ol’ thesaurus is for you.
This website is useful not only for translation but also for discerning the proper usage of a word or phrase in various contexts.
Finding it difficult to rhyme all the time? Use this website to make your writing chime.
Websites for Specific Subjects
If you ever need to consult the Bible for a paper, then you can look up specific verses here in a huge variety of translations.
If you put a math problem into this website, then it will show you the step-by-step process of arriving at an answer. It can be used for all levels of math, everything from pre-algebra to calculus. Plus, you can make mathematical graphs here. It also helps with chemistry problems. Just remember that you won’t be able to use this site on an exam, so only use it if you need some homework help: relying on it too much will hurt you in the long run.
Here you will find summaries of academic research in different fields of science. This can help whenever you need to validate a point. Plus, it’s just plain interesting!
General Resources for Academic Work
No matter what anyone says, Wikipedia is an incredibly helpful when you need to familiarize yourself with the basics of a certain topic. Even though anyone can edit the pages on here, much of the information is accurate. You can use the sources cited at the bottom of an article to help you find more reliable, detailed sources of information, ones you would actually cite in a paper.
This handy website allows you to convert weight, length, area, and more from our “imperial” measuring system to the metric system—and vice versa.
As the name of this website suggests, you can convert one currency to another currency here.
If you need a quick translation to or from a foreign language, this website can help you out. However, Google’s service isn’t the greatest about sentence structure, so I would recommend using it only to look up words or phrases, not entire sentences. Definitely don’t use it in place of translating sentences yourself.
SparkNotes can be a useful means of understanding difficult books. However, don’t use this website as an excuse to skip your reading, or you won’t be able to delve deeply into the subject matter in your papers or class discussions. After all, you need specific quotations for your papers. The “analysis” section provided for many works isn’t nearly deep enough for college-level writing, though it can give you a helpful starting point for grasping the material.
This website provides a service similar to PowerPoint, but it allows multiple users to work on different parts of it at the same time via the Internet. This feature makes it particularly useful for group projects. Although it has other neat-looking features, remember that the content is the most important part of any presentation, not the special effects.
Come here to find out what other students think of the professors on your campus. Just remember that the opinions posted here might be loaded with bias, so use the website cautiously.
This website can help you look at the undergrad and graduate programs offered by various universities. It also explores different career fields.
Other Helpful Resources for Productivity and Well-Being
If you need a stopwatch, a countdown timer, or an alarm clock while working on a computer, but you’d rather not use your phone’s clock, then this simple website could serve you well.
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This ministry has answered thousands of questions related to Christianity. It could prove useful for theology classes, Bible studies, or for exploring the faith yourself.
This website allows you to browse volunteer opportunities in your area. Becoming involved in your community, especially if you invite your friends to come along with you, can be an enriching experience.
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
This website offers help to victims of sexual violence. The organization also provides statistics and other information about sexual violence.
This organization provides useful health information, though you shouldn’t use it as a replacement for seeing your doctor. Remember, you shouldn’t worry so much about grades that you neglect yourself! I recommend this website because I think you’re better off sticking to a few reliable sources for your health needs rather than sharing your concerns with Google and possibly receiving inaccurate responses.
This website allows you to browse for health information and read user reviews for popular medications. Again, I would suggest sticking to a reliable source like this rather than worrying about what random websites claim about various health issues.
Just because I have linked to a website does not mean I agree with all the information on it.
I am in no way responsible for the content on the websites listed here.