On this page:

• Capilano University Library Resources
• Dictionaries and Reference Works
• Help with Documentation
• Help with Grammar
• ESL Resources
• Literary Resources
• General Resources

 Capilano University Library Resources

• Discovery – search articles, books, media, reports and more
• Library Catalogue
• Periodical Databases (most databases require proxy server access from home and are restricted to student use only)
• Research Assistance (information on library and web research)
• Online Resource Portal (includes links to Internet search engines, useful reference websites and a selection of Internet resources that support Capilano University courses)

Dictionaries and Reference Works

• Visual Thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus
• John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations
• Strunk and White's The Elements of Style
• Merriam-Webster Online
• YourDictionary.com
• Online Rhyming Dictionary
• Heteronyms (words that are spelled the same but have different meanings when pronounced differently - e.g. wind or lead)
• Antagonyms (words with opposite meanings - e.g. where "bad" can mean either bad or good depending on context)

Help with Documentation

• For MLA and APA documentation, we recommend consulting the Writing Centre handouts MLA Style and APA Style, and The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments available from the Capilano University Bookstore.
• Overview of APA Referencing Style
• APA format for Research Projects
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• Chicago Manual Style Online (free trial available)
• Harvard Referencing Style

Help with Grammar

• Instructional Systems Traditional English Grammar
• Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists
• Grammar Bytes (explanations plus interactive exercises)
• Grammar and Style Guide
• Hypergrammar
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (a guide to essay writing)
• Purdue University Online Grammar Handouts

ESL Resources

• Online English Grammar by the Hampstead School of English
• ESL Idiom Page by Dave Sperling
• Dave's ESL Cafe

Literary Resources

• EPC (Electronic Poetry Centre)
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive
• Literary Encyclopedia
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net (Rutgers)
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
• Postcolonial Text
• UBU Web
• Victorian Web
• Voice of the Shuttle

General Resources

• Focusing on Words (Latin and Greek elements in words)
• Common Errors in English
• World Wide Words by Michael Quinion (Articles on quirky words and usage)
• Critical Reading and Effective Writing by Dan Kurland
• Oral Presentations