Resources and Links

• Resources at Baruch College
• Web-based Links

Resources at Baruch College

• SACC peer-tutors   
  http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/sacc/ 
  The English peer-tutors in SACC are model Baruch students and trained by the Writing Center tutors on an on-going basis.
• ESL Interactive Grammar Software is available for use in the Writing Center. You do not need an appointment to use the program though we do encourage you to work with a tutor to determine appropriate and individualized exercises.
• Exercise Worksheets are available in the Writing Center. We recommend that you work with a consultant to determine the areas you may need to develop.
• Reference Library  

Web-based Links           

Reference Links

Dictionaries

• http://www.yourdictionary.com/
• http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Thesaurus

• http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Bartlett's Quotations

• http://www.bartleby.com/99

Encyclopedia Brittanica (7-day trial)

• http://www.eb.com/

Encyclopedia

• http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm

ESL Links

 Exercise Central

• http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral/

 The English Page

• www.englishpage.com/index.html

 Self-Study Grammar Quizzes

• http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html

 Guide to Grammar and Writing

• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

 The Internet TESL Journal

• http://iteslj.org/

Writesite Links

              Writing Projects                                

• http://writesite.cuny.edu/projects/stages/index.html
  • Getting Started (freewriting, categories and clusters, pre-draft outlines, find the keywords, listing, reporter's questions, define your audience)
  • Research (general guides to doing research, using the WWW for research, citing sources and documentation styles,
  • Drafting (steps in drafting)
  • Revising (Revise It exercise, Check Your Work exercise)
  • Finishing (finishing exercise)

Assignment keywords

http://www.writesite.cuny.edu/projects/keywords/index.html

• agree/disagree, analyze, cause and effect, classify, compare and contrast, criticize, describe, discuss, evaluate, examples, explain, explicate, illustrate, interpret, narrate, paraphrase, quote, reflect, respond, state, summarize, trace

              Essays

http://www.writesite.cuny.edu/projects/tasks/index.html

• Essay Elements
• Argue-it
• Reports and more

        Grammar and Style

http://writesite.cuny.edu/grammar/index.html

• General Reference (An "A to Z" list of grammar topics)
• Hot Spots (Set of interactive exercises)
• Error Analyzer (A program for evaluating error patterns)

Writing for Exams

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/cuny-act/index.html

• ACT (general information, strategies for taking the CUNY/ACT writing sample essay, an example of a writing sample assignment, ACT scoring scale, sample essays for each level on the scoring scale, specific questions about the writing sample test, etc.)

http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/WAC/studs_info.htm

• CPE (In addition to describing the CPE and its requirements, the booklet contains actual student responses written under pilot testing conditions, the ratings of each of the essays, and comments on the ratings)

  http://www.writesite.cuny.edu/exams/last/index.html

• LAST (faq, getting ready, writing your own LAST essay)

              Net Library

http://www.writesite.cuny.edu/netlibrary/index.html

• general resources
• writer's tools and references
• specialized resources