Need to improve the vocabulary and your overall writing skills for your next essay? IELTS Vocabulary means using a more academic style and word choice (Lexical Resource) when writing your essay. Using Topic Specific Vocabulary, collocations and words from the Academic Word List will help considerably. Topic Specific Vocabulary also contains lots of collocations, so […]
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How To Successfully Prepare Your Child For College Life
If your child is currently attending his last year of high school, then it’s likely that you’ve already done some research on colleges or universities that your child can attend in September. However, it takes more than picking the right college and getting good grades to prepare for college life. According to a survey, 60% of […]
GoodCall Scholarship Search
Leading Hands Through Technology discovered another great scholarship search engine called GoodCall. The GoodCall Scholarship Search Engine proclaims it has one of the largest databases of scholarships on the web. After a quick review, the search engine results are quality; however if you want to watch or keep track of your results you need to […]
Need To Cite A Bibliography?
Are you creating a research paper? Do you need to generate a citation in MLA, APA & Chicago formats for your bibliography? I found this site that will cite (pun intended) your bibliography for free called EasyBib. All you need is the URL or search for the item and it can be generated in the […]
Plagiarism Tools
An esteemed college professor asked me the other day if I knew of any online plagiarism tools. In the past, I have used http://turnitin.com and http://www.articlechecker.com/, but I was determined to find a good list of tools for him. Below is a quick review of the plagiarism tools I found on Yahoo Answers. #1 http://www.plagiarismdetect.com […]
Online College Courses for Half Price
Thinking of going to college, but you can’t afford it? In the olden days you would go to your local community college, take a few courses and then later transfer to a state school. Buruck Smith wanted to offer college students an affordable, easy online alternative to taking required classes. Now you can take a […]
College for Free?
If you are like most parents, you are looking for ways to help pay for the rising costs of college for your kids. Ben Kaplan, a former student, was looking for a way to help his parents pay for college and could not find any easily accessible resources. Yes, there are scholarships.com and many resources […]