Here are links related to (in order) Campus, plagiarism, searching the internet, writing, speaking, Communication organizations, Information sources, newspapers, and many Intercultural links (including interaction with students from other cultures). Scroll down....

Mt. San Jacinto College Web site

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism issues http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.integriguard.com

General Directories and Search Engines:

• Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com the original Web search site, provides a well-organized directory of web contents, a powerful search engine, and an ever-growing list of new features that focus on special interests.

• Excite http://www.excite.com features a tight directory structure and allows searching by concepts, which means you can enter conversational search phrases and get more targeted results.

• Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com this search engine of search engines combs 25 Internet search and directory sites.

• Google http://www.google.com

Writing

These sites provide information about writing papers and creating bibliographies.

• www.easypaper.com
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citation.htm a great site by Long Island University
• Roget's Thesaurus
• University of Wisconsin Writing Handbook
• The Elements of Style, a classic book by Strunk and Whyte
• Internet Public Library: A+ Research and Writing

Speaking Skills

The following are resources for preparing oral presentations.

• Allyn and Bacon, Public Speaking Website
• Northwestern State University of Louisiana: Online Speech Bank
• Story Arts Online
• University of Kansas: Visual Presentation Assistant

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Professional Organizations

The following organizations have information and links to resources in the communication field.

• Communications Central at Governors State University
• COMFILE at Cal State Fullerton
• International Communication Association
• Language and Social Interaction Divisions: ICA or NCA
• National Communication Association
• Western States Communication Association

Information Resources

These are publications, libraries, and government organizations which provide information about current topics.

• Atlas online http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/index.htm
• Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html
• Fedstats: Statistics compiled by US. Government Agencies
• California Digital Library
• How Stuff Works
• How Things Work
• Information Please
• The Library of Congress
• Math in Daily Life
• University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Education
• US History http://memory.loc.gov/
• Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com submit a question and this site will search for you
• LIBCAT http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lc/guide to library resources on the Internet.
• LIBWEB http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Libweb collection of online libraries worldwide.
• Gallop polls/statistics: http://www.gallup.com
• National Opinion Research Center (NORC) http://www.norc.uchicago.edu
• UC Library page and Reference Desk http://www.lib.uci.edu comprehensive reference desk with language dictionaries.
• Living Web Library http://www.livingweb.com 
• My Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com

Newspapers

• The Los Angeles Times
• The Press-Enterprise
• The Washington Post
• Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/reading/news daily newspapers from around the world.
• CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com/ the worldwide leader in cable television news.
• The New York Times on the Web http://www.nytimes.com news updated every 10 minutes.
• Bombay Dispatch http://www.gadnet.com/news.htm News from India updated daily.
• Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.co.il/ Internet edition of Jerusalem's daily newspaper
• Daily Yomiuri Online http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm English language online version of the nationally distributed daily newspaper in Japan.

Intercultural Links

• Tolerance.Org: How tolerant are you? http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html Website offers a series of surveys to help you uncover your hidden biases and tolerance level.
• Implicit Association Test http://buster.cs.yale.edu/implicit/ Online test of your biases etc
• Cultures is a website that links to information about many other cultures.  Explore the links page there. http://www.cultures.com/
• Native Web explores indigenous cultures around the world. http://www.nativeweb.org/
• Islamic Family http://aaiil.org/text/articles/others/familylifeinislam.shtml

The Internet for Interaction

• Worldwide Classroom http://www.worldwide.edu/ compilation of intercultural and educational programs around the world that welcome international visitors; study, enrichment, foreign language immersion, teen camps, volunteerism, internships, and cultural, craft, and heritage programs.