Barbara Jean Johnson: My Favorite Sites

 UDC : This website provides information on the University, the services, and the activities.

Terry Gray's How to Search the Web: A Guide to Search Tools : Particularly good for students of English, this is one of the best guides to searching the web and also includes links to the search engines it describes.

Yahoo! : A very popular search engine for "surfing the net" and free e-mail. Easy to use.

Hotmail : Another popular search engine with free e-mail service. Simply, type in your topic or key words and watch.

Reading Methods: PORPE : Sweet Briar College for Women in Sweet Briar, VA designed this site,  It's absolutely wonderful.

Tips for Writing a Rough Draft-http://www.arc.sbc.edu/roughdraft.html :  Another useful site from Sweet Briar College.

Common Grammatical Errors & How to Fix Them: Sweet Briar College offers this site @ http://www.arc.sbc.edu/grammar.html.

Writing Resources Page Palo Alto College: An excellent resource.  A Guide for First and Second Year College Students; An excellent resource for all kinds of writing assignments; Critical Reading, A Guide for Freshmen and Sophmores.

The Nuts and Bolts Of College Writing:More Help: This site offers suggestions on some "first-rate books that can help you write better." http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/nb-links.html.

Study Skills Self-help Information: This site provides an array of helpful categories from study techniques to reading and writing suggestions. Sample headings are Time Scheduling, Note Taking, Procrastination, How to Read a Difficult Book, Stress Management, Suggestions for Improved Reading Speed, etc. http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html.

The Study Skills Page: Provides suggestions from various Universitites such as Cal. Berkeley, York University, Edinboro University on study skills, http://loki.sacredheart.edu/freshman/stdyskls.html, as well as a "Freshman Year Resource Site" with useful information, http://loki.sacredheart.edu/freshman/index.html.
 
 



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