• Communication Skills Center provides tutors for any course writing assignments.
  (508) 854-4287
• Alden Library

• Harrington Academic Computing Center
  Room 379A

• Academic Advising
  Room B61A (508) 854-4308

• Disability Services
  Room 246 A (508) 854-4471

• Student/Staff Portal ~ The Q (requires password)

Additional Web Resources

Writing

• Association of College and Research Libraries - Information Literacy
• Guides for Developmental Writing at QCC
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Purdue OWL
  • General Writing Concerns
  • Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
  • Research and Documenting Sources
  • Using MLA (Modern Language Association) Format
  • Using APA (American Psychological Association) Format
• The Writer's Almanac A daily program of poetry and history

Speech

• American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States

• Public Speaking Anxiety

• FactCheck.org Non-profit political "consumer advocate" for voters

• National Center for Education Statistics

Library Research

• QCC Library lists on and off-campus resources; select Online Databases for journal articles
• Access to Mass Online Databases requires library card (QCC or C/W MARS barcode) for login from off campus; databases include newspaper and journal articles
• Quinsigamond Community College Library catalog
• C/W MARS - central Massachusetts library catalogs

Literature

• Bartleby Library
• Internet Public Library: Literature
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Voice of the Shuttle - annotated catalog for all humanities disciplines; from UC, Santa Barbara

Learning Styles

• VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles
• Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire

Faculty Organizations

• AACC American Association of Community Colleges
• CCCC
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Computers and Composition Online 
• Council of Writing Program Administrators
• League for Innovation in the Community College
• Massachusetts Community College Council (QCC faculty union)
• Massachusetts Department of Education
• Massachusetts Teachers Association
• Modern Language Association
• National Council for Higher Education (part of NEA's HE)
• National Council of Teachers of English
• NEFDC ~ New England Faculty Development Consortium
• Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Journal)
• TYCA Northeast ~ Two-Year College English Association

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