Gustav Verhulsdonck
New Mexico State University
Department of English
MSC 3E, PO Box 30001
(505) 646-3931
gustav@nmsu.edu

LINKS

Course Related Links

• Course Book Website for Johnson-Sheehan's Technical Communication Today

http://ablongman.com/johnsonweb/

Assignment Related Links

Resume

•  A funny site about what NOT to do in your Resume:

http://www.resumania.com

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Tutorial 

• A site that explains steps to take in writing your tutorial (as well as brochure and report writing)

http://saulcarliner.home.att.net/id/summaryguidelines.html

• A site on usability with various methods of usability testing

http://jthom.best.vwh.net/usability/

• A site that discusses ways of creative problem solution and some group thinking techniques

http://www.calumet.yorku.ca/spec/study/Creative%20Thinking.htm

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Informational Website

• This takes you directly to an automatic website generator based on your university account. 

Http://aams.nmsu.edu/web/publish.html 

(not functional - hopefully up soon)

• After following the instructions, you can use the following address to access the space. Open up Internet Explorer or Netscape and access the following address ftp://verdi.nmsu.edu. After entering your email name and password, it will let you in. You'll have to place your index.html file, along with your other files in the directory called public_html, by copying them of your drive or simply clicking and pasting them. (Please make sure to change all links to the URL of your website). If you go to your website address (which should be based on the following example: (http://web.nmsu.edu/~youruniversityaccountname) you'll see your website displayed there!

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• Printable general tips for HTML

http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

• Excellent site that has lots of easy to use tips for using HTML code tags

http://builder.com.com/5100-31-5074586.html?tag=search

• Really good site that has excellent and easy-to-understand tips for using HTML code with a Non-technical introduction for novice web creators, as well as good tips for advanced web-authors on Java Applets etc.

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/nontechintro/

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General Pages

• New Mexico State University (General Page):

http://www.nmsu.edu/

• New Mexico State University English Department Website:

http://www.nmsu.edu/~english

• A link to NMSU's Writing Center with contact information: 

http://www.nmsu.edu/~english/resources/writingcenter.htm

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Writing Specific Links

• One of the Best Online Writing Labs created by Purdue University, with examples of writing and specific help:

Main Link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

• For General Writing Concerns (Planning, Writing, Revising an Essay):

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html#planning

• Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html

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• Documenting Sources in Your Essay (MLA, APA and other formats):

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html

• Interactive ways of testing your knowledge, with handy practices to improve your writing:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html

• Handouts and useful categories for those whose native language is not English:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html

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