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Eng101 Unit 1 Exercise 1

Decent Essays

1. Books
Having access to books is very important in college. Generally you are expected to cite at least one in an essay no matter what the course or topic. Problem is, not all of us start our essays in daylight hours and normally if we’ve been procrastinating, we’re stuck at the troubling last minute times which results in either the books we needed being out or us getting the wrong books. Worry no more! That’s where Questia.com comes in! It’s a free online library! Doesn’t eliminate your need for the library for extremely topic specific essays, but it does for that annoying ENG101 class. Featuring over 5,000 books, they range from classical to rare and public domain books. It’s easy to use and even features the citation information on the side! If you really like it and want to eliminate all human contact in your search for academic sources, you can subscribe! With a paid subscription they give you access to over 83,000 books, 10 million (yes, million!) academic …show more content…

Or you felt there was a better way to phrase something and could think of how? Or you know, wanted an idea of how good your essay is? Well, someone with some kick butt algorithm skills wanted the same things- so they made a pretty little website named Paper Rater. It literally gives you the ability to have feedback on your paper before you hand it in for grading! It spell checks, correct sentence structure for readability, makes style and word suggestions (yes- even tries to help you beef up your essays with vocabulary words none of us cares to know but looks great on paper!) and checks for plagiarism without registering your paper. On top of all these features- it will grade your paper! Now the website’s admins notes that their program (affectionately named Grendel, with he/him pronouns) only grades the structure and grammer of your paper- grading the arguments made and the content of your paper is entirely in your teacher’s

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