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Donald Maclean's List: Information Literacy
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May 17, 10
Welcome to the Virtual Training Suite - a set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course.\nAll our tutorials written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK. These interactive, teach-yourself tutorials take around an hour to complete. Simply work through the material in your own time at your own pace.
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May 17, 10
"Sure, you use the Internet all the time,but you need to wise up to the web when you use it for your university or college work." Use this free Internet tutorial to learn to discern the good, the bad and the ugly for your online research.
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May 17, 10
Harvard Reference Generator. Type (or copy and paste) fields and click to create your correctly formatted reference. MLA reference generator also available. Simple and quick to use.
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May 17, 10
Researching and study skills materials from Learning Teaching Scotland.Essay writing, memory skills, comprehension, referencing.
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Jun 25, 10
Type any word into the search box and you can find out it's definition. This tool now has an audi facility to help with pronunciations. A great tool for lecturers to point their students towards.
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Jul 12, 10
UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse their grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas.
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Jul 12, 10
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
This one comes with a health warning; it does have its limitations. For a review of Google Scholar see here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1324783/\n -
Mar 14, 11
Free teaching and learning resources for staff and students across the FE/HE sector.
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Mar 14, 11
Whether you’re new to university or you’ve been there a while, LearnHigher can help you to make the most of the experience. Our resources are freely available to all and cover the main areas that students seek advice on outside of their academic subject. Click on the questions to see more about how we can help you, or use the icons to go directly to a topic.
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Apr 15, 11
AutoCrit is designed for manuscripts, but it will work on almost any type of writing. This online tool searches writing for cliches, overused words, repeated phrases, dull sentences, and other common writing problems. Free for up to 400 words.
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May 03, 11
I envisioned MakeBeliefsComix.com as a place for you to come to and have fun by creating your own world of comic strips. My hope is that by giving you a choice of characters with different moods and the chance to write words and thoughts for them, you will tap into your creativity and explore new possibilities. After all, there is no greater force in life than the power of the imagination to free us from our immediate problems and to spur our energies to find solutions to our befuddlements.
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May 10, 11
With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.
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