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Appendix: Web resources

SuperCollege.com

Elements of Style

www.supercollege.com

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

The publisher of this book. On

This is a classic reference text

SuperCollege.com you can get

on usage and style. At some

more help on getting into and

point you’ll actually want to get

paying for college. Plus, you

the book since you’ll be using it

can search a free database of

throughout college.

thousands of scholarships and

enter to enter the SuperCollege

Columbia World of

student scholarship.

Quotations

http://education.yahoo.com/

OWL—Online Writing Lab

reference/quotations/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

If you are looking for a quote,

Articles and tips on writing from

try this Yahoo! index.

Purdue University. Also includes

downloadable presentations on a College Board

variety of writing topics.

www.collegeboard.com

The makers of the SAT I and

Guide to Grammar and Style

PSAT offer articles on selecting

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/

colleges, completing your

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applications and test-taking.

An excellent reference that will

answer all your tough grammar-

Common Application

and style-related questions.

www.commonapp.org

See which schools accept the

Online Thesaurus

Common Application and

www.thesaurus.com

download the necessary forms.

Find the perfect word by search-

ing Roget’s New Millennium

CollegeAnswer.com

Thesaurus.

www.collegeanswer.com

Provides information on

Merriam-Webster Online

selecting colleges, test prep

www.webster.com

and applying. Also provides a

Allows you to look up words in a free scholarship database and

collegiate dictionary and thesaufi nancial aid calculators.

rus.