MENTORS' RESOURCES
Campus
You can use the UHM home page to help students understand the institution.
Student Services Referral List
Consult Gina Szabady's exhaustive list of campus services to help students find what they need.
Interactive Campus Map
Help first-year students find their ways--literally.
Mentors' Space in Sinclair
Students can find you using this map.
Arts & Sciences Advising
Use this link to help students coordinate with advisors.
First Year Advising Center
See their links to valuable first-year resources.
Information Technology Home
Set up e-mail, MyUH, etc., and troubleshoot.
Manoa Writing Program
See their links to pages offering help to writers.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library Home Page
Land here for initial orientation to the libraries.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library Tutorials
Follow these tutorials to learn about the library system and to help you formulate and pursue a topic for research.
Library Essentials Workshop
See this page for the library workshops info.
Gohere Student Success Center
Visit the central clearing house for student support in Sinclair Library.
Learning Assistance Center
Get extra help learning studying skills, test-taking, and more.
Counseling and Student Development Center
Visit their site for counseling resources.
KOKUA
See their resources for students with disabilities.
Recommended Web Sites on LD and AD/HD from Kokua
Visit these sites and/or bring them to the attention of students who have a learning disability or AD/HD.
University Health Services
See their resources and services.
English Department
Learn more about the English Department, including its affiliated programs, the undergraduate major, and even graduate studies.
Writing Workshop
Make appointments to work individually with a trained writing consultant.
Professional Writing Certificate
Build on your English 100 skills to complete the Professional Writing Certificate while still an undergraduate at UH.
Writing
Pre-writing Tips from Purdue's OWL
See their support materials for
getting started.
Dartmouth Writing Program's Online Resources
Their links provide great support for writing academic papers generally, as well as in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. See also their links on ESL writers and writers with disabilities, as well as writing for a job or professional audience.
Cybertimes Navigator from the NYT
The New York Times provides a good starting place for researching information on the WWW.
Cornell U's Annotated Bibliography Page
This site explains what an annotated bibliography is and how to compose it, in both APA and MLA format.
Rhetorical Triangle
This page provided by the University of Georgia Writing Center provides a good, succinct discussion of Aristotle's writing.
Grammar & Style
Charles Darling's Site for Grammar and Usage Exercises
Use the menus on this site to find online exercises that you can correct yourself.
Grammar Girl's Audio Clips
Mignon Fogarty discourses on topics such as hyphens and apostrophes.
Vocabulary
Free Rice
Increase your vocabulary while donating rice to the needy.
Reference
The OWL at Purdue
One of the first online writing labs in the U.S. offers an array of support links for such topics as "general academic writing," "grammar and mechanics," "literary analysis and criticism," and many others.
Merriam-Webster Online
The publishers of the print dictionary offer this online version where you can subscribe to a word-of-the-day service by e-mail. Or, you can download the word-of-the-day to your mp3 player as a podcast.
Bartleby.com
Classic reference texts, including
the Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's thesaurus, Strunk & White's Elements of Style, and many others. To be consumed with grains of salt.
Going Beyond the Assignment ...
"Footstools and Furniture"
Use this chapter from Keith Hjortshoj's The Transition to College Writing to help those students who have already mastered the five-paragraph theme perceive more complex ways to marshall arguments in academic writing.
English Department Colloquium of March 20, 2008
Trans/Performing First-Year Composition:
Teaming Mentors with Faculty in English 100 PowerPoint
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