Internet
Sites
Citation
Style Links
Digital handouts and Internet sites that provide examples and guides
for citing resources. APA, MLA, and other citation styles are offered.
http://library.sunyocc.edu/resources/reference.php#Cite
Purdue
University’s On-Line Writing Lab - Handouts and Materials
The strength of this site is its massive number of handouts and research
links. Some of the topics addressed by the handouts are tips for writing
argumentative essays, literary term definitions, writing about poetry,
and much more.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
Strunk's
Elements of Style (ebook)
Strunk's Elements of Style offers information on grammar, punctuation,
style, sentence, and paragraph formation. There is also information
on misused and misspelled words and phrases.
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
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Databases
Literature
Resource Center
(Login
required off-campus)
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school
students, the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies,
bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and
literary discipline. Combining Gale's most used literary databases
in a single Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center
covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and
other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied
authors. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or
Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a customized custom
search.
Opposing
Viewpoints (Login
required off-campus)
Covers social issues, such as gun control, genetic engineering, censorship,
endangered species, and terrorism. This databases brings together
viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational
statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special
interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links
to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. It takes
its name from the Opposing Viewpoints print series published by Greenhaven
Press, an imprint of the Gale Group.
Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) Online (Login
required off-campus)
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second
Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions
Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).
The
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors
(Login
required off-campus)
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text
of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual
World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text
titles.
Additional databases
available at: http://library.sunyocc.edu/databases/
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Campus Resources
OCC
Writing Skills Center
Help
with writing when you need it, where you want it, FREE. There are
three ways to use the Writing Skills Center:
1."The
Classic" - in the Center, with a professional
tutor. Hours: Mondays through Thursdays
9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m, Fridays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
2. eTutoring - from home
or anywhere you have email, with a professional tutor you know and
trust
3. NightWriter - at home when the stars
come out, for help with whatever you need, from getting started
to
punctuation and formatting
Academic A340
Phone: (315) 498-2260
Email: write@sunyocc.edu
Website: http://students.sunyocc.edu/academics.aspx?title=832&innernav=0&id=137
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