Online Resources

• Capilano University Library Resources
• Dictionaries and Reference Works
• Help with Documentation
• Help with Grammar
• ESL Resources
• Literary Resources
• General Resources

Capilano University Library Resources:

Library Catalogue: http://www.capilanou.ca/services/learning-support/library/Search/books.html

Periodical Databases (most databases require proxy server access from home and are restricted to student use only): http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAC  

Research Assistance (information on library and web research): 
http://www.capilanou.ca/services/learning-support/library/assistance.html

Online Resource Portal (includes links to Internet search engines, useful reference web sites and a selection of Internet resources that support Capilano University courses): http://courses.capilanou.ca/CWIS/SPT--BrowseResources.php

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Dictionaries and Reference Works:

Visual Thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html

Roget's Thesaurus: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations: http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style: http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/

YourDictionary.com: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Online Rhyming Dictionary: http://www.rhymezone.com/

Heteronyms (words that are spelled the same but have different meanings when pronounced differently - e.g. wind or lead): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html

Antagonyms (words with opposite meanings - e.g. where "bad" can mean either bad or good depending on context): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html

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Help with Documentation:

For MLA and APA Documentation, we recommend consulting the Writing Centre handouts "MLA Style," "APA Style," and The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments available from the Capilano University Bookstore.

Overview of APA Referencing Style:
http://www.capilanou.ca/programs/psychology/students/apa/quick-apa.html

APA Format for Research Projects: http://www.capilanou.ca/programs/psychology/students/apa/research.html

Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age (St Martins/Bedford): http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/ 

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Help with Grammar:

Instructional Systems Traditional English Grammar: http://utminers.utep.edu/ajkline/grammara.htm

Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists: http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/exercises/index.html

Grammar Bytes (explanations plus interactive exercises): http://www.chompchomp.com/

Grammar and Style Guide: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/

Hypergrammar: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/grammar.html

Paradigm On-line Writing Assistant (a guide to essay writing): http://www.powa.org/

Purdue University On-line Grammar handouts: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html

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ESL Resources:

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students Online Writing Lab - Chinese OWL at Tsing Hua University (Taiwan): http://iteslj.org/quizzes/

Online English Grammar by the Hampstead School of English: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/

ESL Idiom Page by Dave Sperling: http://www.eslcafe.com/idioms/id-mngs.html

Dave's ESL Cafe: http://www.eslcafe.com/

ESL @ Ohio University: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/index.html

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Literary Resources:

Complete Works of Shakespeare: http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/rossetti/

EPC (Electronic Poetry Centre):  http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/

Literary Encyclopedia: http://www.litencyc.com/

Jack Lynch’s Literary Resources on the Net (Rutgers): http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English: http://www.postcolonialweb.org/

Postcolonial Text: http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct

UBU Web: http://www.ubu.com/

Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/

Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/

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General Resources:

Writing Resources (materials on documentation, plagiarism, grammar, etc. selected by Melanie Falman-Reid, Department of English at Capilano University): http://members.shaw.ca/erathia/Composition Fall 2006/writing_resources.htm

Focusing on Words (Latin and Greek elements in words): http://www.wordfocus.com/

Common Errors in English: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

World Wide Words by Michael Quinion. Articles on quirky words and usage: http://www.quinion.com/words/

Critical Reading and Effective Writing by Dan Kurland: http://www.criticalreading.com/

Oral Presentations: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/conference-talk.html

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