Instructional Materials

Tutorial
Guidelines for Oral Presentations

Welcome to our tutorial: Guidelines for Oral Presentations. The purpose of this module is to help organize, construct, and present your oral project. You will find tips on how to use your visual aids effectively and how to reduce your speaking anxiety. You will also find a list of things that you should avoid while presenting, suggestions on how to conduct yourself during the presentation and how to prepare for the question and answer session at the end.

Guidelines for Oral Presentation (PowerPoint)

Tutorial
Composition Workshop

Welcome to our Composition Workshop. This tutorial will help you to organize your ideas and write your paper correctly. You will be presented with a variety of writing techniques that will help make your work seem more professional. The correct form of writing your references (bibliography and citations) are presented and explained with examples using both the APA and MLA styles. This module gives you excellent tips on brainstorming, researching, and outlining.

Composition Workshop (PowerPoint)

Tutorial
Grammar Workshop

This workshop seeks to explain the eight parts of speech. You will find definitions and examples to help you understand their function and use.

Grammar Workshop (PowerPoint)

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Positioning the subject and the verb (PowerPoint)

Sentence structure (PowerPoint)

Where to place modifiers (PowerPoint)

Writing effective sentences (PowerPoint)

Constructing paragraphs for an essay (PowerPoint)

Avoiding plagiarism (PowerPoint)

More References:

When listing your references at the end of your projects and investigations, the APA style (American Psychological Association) is used at the Colleges of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Business Administration, and Education.

When listing your references at the end of your projects and investigations, the MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used at the College of Humanities and Arts.

Word order for questions

Word order for negative statements

Dictionaries

• One look dictionaries  http://www.onelook.com
• Your dictionary.com   http://www.yourDictionary.com
• Spanish-English Online Dictionary  http://dictionaries.travlang.com/SpanishEnglish/
• Merriam Webster Online http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm  (excellent dictionary which includes pronunciation of words)
• Allwords.com dictionary http://www.allwords.com
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online  http://dictionary.cambridge.org

References

• Facts and References Online  http://www.refdesk.com/
• Tools! Language Tools   http://www.iTools.com/lang/

Others

• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing   http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com
• The WWW Virtual Library   http://home.istar.ca/~obyrne/dict.html
• Randall's Cyberlistening Lab  http://www.esl-lab.com
• English as a Second Language  http://www.rang.com