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I. Writing Center Links and Web Site -The site is informal and student-oriented. It has some basic information about the writing center--who, what, when, how, why, and where. A larger component is our online resource TurtleWax, which has suggestions from me and extensive annotated links to the best stuff we found online in several categories:

Mechanix: punctuation, grammar, usage

Cybercite: using sources and documentation formats

II. The College Library

Need help finding references. Ask a Librarian at the link on the library home page or email nelsoncn@beloit.edu who is the reference librarian and very nice and helpful.

II. Roc's Personal Tools for Information Literacy

spelling - frequent mistakes

Spelling exercise

grammar - what corrections on papers mean

Writing exercise

citation software - how to compile a bibliography
plagiarism - short, clear explanations Advice for timed writing exercises

web citation format - how references must appear at end of papers: example

Sarkar T, Zhao W, Sarkar NH. 1995 Oct. Expression of jun oncogene in rodent and human breast tumors. World Wide Web J Biology 1(1). Accessed 1996 23 Oct.

III. Research as a path to Information Literacy

1. The Research Process - Roc's views on how to do research3. Research process experience - A practical way to do research in a class environment

4. Taking a stand for Information Literacy - how to prepare a poster for the Undergraduate Research Symposium

Examples of research posters
Research posters with text and layout
Designing Poster
setup poster how to prepare text for printing
Printing Poster
with [Murray] Science Center printer Rm 4xx Visualization lab

with College library printer - call Library and ask - must pay yourself about $25