Guides to Grammar and Writing

Empire State University (CUNY): The Research Room At a dead end just thinking about your research paper? Don't know where to begin? Overwhelmed from the get-go? This site is meant to calm your nerves and help you through the research process in a step-by-step process. Learn how to narrow your focus, to develop you research question, to evaluate your sources, etc. This site is truly useful! Go to: The Research Room. Have fun!.

Dr. Paul Brians' Common Errors in English Usage site is hosted by Washington State University. This is a highly recommended site to double-and triple-check your English usage. Please explore this and other sites made available by Dr Brians' generosity. Go to: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization. I have received permission to link to their site. Anyone who needs help or a refresher lesson with any aspect of writing from subject-verb agreements to how to start a paper should visit this site! I highly recommend it as one of the most valuable resources for students and instructors alike.

Guidelines to Writing a Philosophy Paper is written by Dr. Jim Pryor of NYU. Although his focus is on the philosophy paper, his principle points are applicable to history papers and answering the questions on my examinations. Please visit this site.

Podcatchers are programs that run on your computer enabling you to download audio files and upload them into your mp3 device (the iPod is a popular mp3 device promoted by Apple's great marketing scheme). For those of you who do not have mp3 devices, do not despair, you can download podcatching software or use an online site such as Feedburner.com.  The advantage of the mp3 devices is portability.

Below are some sites that may be helpful.  For those of you who have iPods or mp3 players and are familiar with podcasts and subscriptions to RSS feeds, you will be happy to know you can listen to my relatively short (and informative, I hope!) lectures at your convenience.  Podcasts combined and/or coordinated with PowerPoint presentations should approximate a classroom lecture and round out the information absorption process.  The new iPods allow one to sync videos.

Feedburner: Feedburner hosts the online feed site for podcasts from this class.
Bloglines: Bloglines is an online podcatching/feed service which is free to those who register.
iTunes: Download iTunes 6, free for Mac and Windows.
iPodder: This is ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware, a podcast directory that makes available various podcatching software for downloads.
Blogger.com: This is a good place to start your weblog.

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