Research Tools

I hope to expand on each of these in the future, but here are some of the resources I direct students toward  during the research process. They help to provide a great deal of information or make life "simpler" at times.

MLA Format guide: The Owl at Purdue

Automatic Works Cited maker: EasyBib 

Expert Evaluated Research Database: Sweet Search 

Online academic journal database: JSTOR

Incorporating quotes effectively: UR writing center

 

The Owl at Purdue is also a super valuable resource for anything that has to do with writing. From grammar questions to resume writing, you can usually find in on OWL. 

 

 

 

 

Bored?

Have you ever sat at home with nothing to do? Maybe SAT's are approaching and your vocabulary isn't as strong as you want it to be.

One of my favorite "learning" sites also doubles as a forum in which you can help others. Free Rice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program that allows you to answer questions in a variety of subjects like algebra, vocabulary, English grammar or world languages (to name a few). For every question you answer correctly, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Program in an effort to help end world hunger. 

What I love about this site is the learning with a purpose aspect. An incorrect answer gives you the opportunity to see the "correct" answer with a chance to retain that information and retest yourself. There are also different levels offered, so an individual has the opportunity to start at their own appropriate learning level. After spending a while on the site, it's easy to answer enough questions to feed an entire village.

If you have a chance or some time to kill, check out www.freerice.com

 

Great Math and Science resources for learning - Khan Academy

Here is a great resource if you need a little help understanding some of the concepts that you are seeing in your classes at school. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a variety of videos on concepts like Linear Equations to Projectile Motion.