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| Writing Help | ||
| Activities for ESL Students | ||
| This site provides quizzes, tests, exercises, and puzzles to help visitors who are learning English as a Second Language (ESL). A project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org), it has thousands of contributions by many teachers. Bilingual quizzes span many languages, from Arabic to Zulu. ( http://a4esl.org/ ) | ||
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| Englishpage.com | ||
| This site offers free online lessons and ESL/EFL resources. The home page menu includes sections on grammar, vocabulary, verb tenses, and many others, including a weekly lesson, games, and a "listening lounge." ( http://www.englishpage.com/ ) | ||
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| Exploring English | ||
| This site provides resources and advice for both adult and young-adult learners who want to understand English grammar and style elements. ( http://www.sharedvisions.com/svuhome.cfm?category=Home&sid=1 ) | ||
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| Grammar Aquarium | ||
| This attractive and useful site provides grammar notes and online and downloadable exercises for EFL and ESL students. It offers an extensive number of topics. ( http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/freeexercises.htm ) | ||
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| Grammar Bytes | ||
| This is a fun site with definitions, rules, and interactive reviews. ( http://www.chompchomp.com/ ) | ||
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| Grammar Slammer! | ||
| This site offers a lot of guidance, as well as a very useful grammar glossary. ( http://englishplus.com/grammar/ ) | ||
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| Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch | ||
| Jack Lynch, a professor of English at Rutgers, has developed an extensive searchable, alphabetically organized database. It contains definitions of grammatical and stylistics terms, as well as examples. He also has an annotated list of recommend books and manuals. ( http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ ) | ||
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| Guide to Grammar and Writing | ||
| This useful site provides help at the word and sentence level, the paragraph level, and the essay and research paper level. There are sections on grammar, quizzes, and even PowerPoint presentations. ( http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ ) | ||
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| Online Writing Lab at Purdue | ||
| The OWL at Purdue is one of the best writing resources on the Net. It contains articles, links, and lessons on issues ranging from the writing process and documentation to general mechanics and English as a second language. It also allows users to post questions and participate in a blog. ( http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ ) | ||
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| Paradigm Online Writing Assistant | ||
| POWA is a web archive of information that assists writers on any number of issues. Sections "Discovering what to Write," "Choosing a Subject," "Freewriting," "Outside Sources," "Organizing Your Writing," and more. ( http://www.powa.org/ ) | ||
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| Tips-O-Matic | ||
| This website is part of the "Writing Den's" website. Visitors can find grammar rules, helper words, and writing tips by selecting sections for sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each section includes definitions of terms, as well as checklists for writers to make sure they have included all they need in a writing project. ( http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/contents.htm ) | ||
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| The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide | ||
| "Originally prepared for students in the English Department at the University of Victoria, the Guide is an introduction to the process of writing and to the study of literature." It contains solid information on aspects of writing that range from sentence, paragraph, and essay levels, and a variety of writing issues, including logic, grammar, summarizing, and literary terms. ( http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/StartHere.html ) | ||
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| Below is a list of self-diagnostic tests to accompany the material on learning styles and brain sphere dominance found in Chapter 6 of Navigating America. The tests vary in their questions and methodology; taking a few may be the most accurate way to assess these areas of learning and thinking.
Learning Styles Tests | ||
| Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory Test | ||
| This is a quick test that scores automatically and shows results as an easily-read bar graph. ( http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsitest2.html ) | ||
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| Learning Style Survey for College | ||
| This is an automatically graded test for learning styles. ( http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.html ) | ||
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| Learning Styles Test | ||
| This is a self-graded test to uncover an individual's learning styles. This test is good for taking offline and even printing it out and sharing it with others. ( http://www.wright.edu/~carole.endres/learnstyles.htm ) | ||
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| What's YOUR Learning Style? | ||
| This is an automatically graded test hosted on a website from the University of South Dakota. ( http://usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/ ) | ||
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| Brain Hemisphere Dominance Tests | ||
| Hemisphere Dominance Inventory | ||
| This is an auto-graded, web-based test that provides a score in seconds. ( http://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/hemispheric_dominance.html ) | ||
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| Hemispheric Dominance Inventory Test | ||
| This short test determines which side of the brain is more dominant. The test is followed with a link to a discussion of how best to optimize learning styles. ( http://brain.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm ) | ||
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| Left or Right Brain? | ||
| This site has information and articles on hemispheric dominance, including a link to a printable test and the scoring key. This is a good test to give it to other people, take offline, or use in a class. ( http://www.angelfire.com/wi/2brains/ ) | ||
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| Left Right Brain Hemisphere Personality Test | ||
| This test is rather different than others listed here. The results are a clear percentage, and it contains an HTML link to post results on visitors' own websites. ( http://similarminds.com/left-right-brain-test.html ) | ||
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| Modified Brain Hemisphere Test | ||
| This is a hemisphericity test that users print out and self grade. The test is followed by information on the effects of left- and right-brain dominances. This is a good test to give to other people, take offline, or use in a class. ( http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe13pages/Modified%20Brain%20Hemisphere.htm ) | ||
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