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Student Resources

There are some great resources on the web for students.  Below are some links, arranged by type of resource.

Writing Aids

Avoiding Plagiarism from Purdue

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

Another good page on avoiding plagiarism from UC Davis

http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm

Downloadable great pamphlets on a number of writing tips from Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml

A nice APA reference from Degelman and Harris at Vanguard University of Southern California

http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.cfm?doc_id=796

An online copy of The Elements of Style by William Strunk (still the definitive American writing manual).  Courtesy of Great Books Online (they have other free great books too!)

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

Dictionary and Thesaurus

The American Heritage Dictionary by Great Books Online

http://www.bartleby.com/61/

ROGET'S Thesaurus from University of Chicago

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Instructions to Authors for the Health Care Sciences

http://mulford.mco.edu/instr/

Presentation Skills

A wonderful support for doing poster, oral or visual presentations by Kansas University Medical Center

http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html

Building and Designing Web Pages

Web Building Tool Kit

http://www.crispen.org/web_building/

Graphics by DITTO

http://www.ditto.com/

Learning Styles

Want to find out more about your personal learning style?  Take this questionnaire by B. Soloman at NC State Univ.

http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

A great set of resources and supports for Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences

http://www.support4learning.org.uk/education/lstyles.htm

Critical Thinking

Some Basics on Critical Thinking

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/crit.html

Bloom's Taxonomy of Critical Thinking

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm

Free Critical Thinking Worksheets to Help Build Critical Thinking Skills

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/critical_thinking/

Research

A wonderful set of qualitative research links compiled by Dr. Jim Drisko at Smith College School for Social Work (check out Jim’s other great pages).

http://sophia.smith.edu/~jdrisko/qualres.htm

Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods links including software Tests and Measures, Survey Method, Quantitative Research Primers, Quantitative Calculators, Quantitative Dictionaries,  Quantitative Datasets, Software Information, and Research Writing Resources.  Site is from the University of Miami.

http://www.library.miami.edu/netguides/psymeth.html

Starr A.Wood, MSW, Ph.D.

University at Albany

School of Social Welfare