• Development of ideas for writing assignments




• Organization of thoughts




• Grammar and mechanics




• MLA and APA formats for research papers




• Resumes and other business writing

• http://owl.purdue.edu/handouts/print/index.html

        This is my favorite comprehensive site for printable handouts.  There are also useful
        grammar exercises and interactive PowerPoint presentations.
 

• http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

        Professor Charles Darling from Capital Community College has a wonderful site which
        categorizes exercises into these helpful levels: word and sentence, paragraph, essay and
        research.  There are also interactive quizzes and a PowerPoint Presentations and Peripherals
        section which includes a link to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
 

• http://www.chompchomp/hotpotatoes

        This is a series of interactive grammar exercises assembled by Robin Simmons.  In addition,
        students will find printable handouts and tip sheets.
 

• http://www.grammarbook.com/default.htm

        Jane Strauss' site has two divisions: grammar and punctuation.  Each one contains both
        exercises and tests.  There are also links to other helpful writing resources.
 

You can find additional special resources on some BCC faculty websites.

To find out what BCC instructors in all subjects consider an excellent, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory paper, look at the rubric entitled Model for Evaluation of Student Writing which has been approved by the English department.
 

• http://staff.bcc.edu/jalexand/rubric.htm

If you are an English as a Second Language student, look at Dr. Carole Gavin's website:
 

• http://staff.bcc.edu/esl/webresources.htm

An excellent grammar handbook can be found at:
 

• http://staff.bcc.edu/dbuck/Grammarhandbook.htm

Finally, if you use a computer in one of BCC's open labs, you can access a valuable database called Literature Online, which offers information about authors, actual texts of literary works, and  criticism and references about many works.  Go to BCC's homepage.  Then click on Library--Vale--Databases--Literature Online.