Grammars: The Tongue United URL is http://www.grammarunited.com/ . This site is sponsored by Dreaming toward Home Webmaster in 2008. This site provides instruction in basic grammar, sentence structure, word choice, and punctuation. This site is educational and educating students for writing assignments. This website is gaining profit from the site by selling a 10 week curriculum for $15 and also you can get the entire Tongue United 10-week curriculum in an easy –to read PDF. The purpose of the reference website is to help students with homework in English and writing English paper. The value to this reference websites is to bring students to a writing workshop and learning tools for writing a good paper and it can be used in an academic environment. You can search the reference sources by selecting the following items, Topic, Quizzes, Blog, Writing Workshops, and 10 week curriculum. Under Topics you can search Adverbs, Adjectives, Agreement, Case, Conjunctions, Clause Verbs, Punctuations, and etc. You can test your knowledge skills on this site by clicking using the Quizzes and Writing Workshops section of this website. You can get some freely available information, but if you want full access you going to have to pay a charge of $15. These sites give you good reference tool on how to write an English paper. From a scale of 1-10, I would give it a 6 and half because the sites charge for information and I think it should be free. The Dreaming toward Home site was last updated in 2008 according to the site. The site seems to be credible even though the information was last update a few years ago. I would suggest the sites be updating it and if they want to charge for the information. Since the sites has not been updated for a few years. I feel it should be free for the public to use it.
Association and Organizations: Idealist; URL are http://www.idealist.org . This website is sponsored by a nonprofit organization. A searchable directory of nearly 50,000 nonprofit organizations in over 160 countries. Individuals can find jobs, volunteer opportunities, internships, programs, campaigns, and events. Nonprofit and community-based organizations can find consultants, freelancers, and other resources. Available in English, Spanish, and French. The Idealist site brings value to anyone who is looking for information regarding jobs and different types of opportunities. . The website is gaining profit by posting your own organization or information to their site. They also funded by Donations, Earned Income, and Grants. The Idealist site is a commercial because it allowed you to post your own organization information to their websites. The site does not really educate students but they share information to the public through a non-government portal. The purpose of this website is to provide information for people seeking opportunities such as jobs and internships. It also help the organizations post those opportunities to their sites as well. In the what area: You can also used the keywords such as, name, interests, or skills and for the Where area: you can type location such as city, state, country, or postal code. You can research the reference source by using the subject search method. The information is organized by the subjects broken up into categories such as, jobs, organizations, volunteer opportunities, internship, events, programs, resources, and people. And you can also click on the Areas of focus as well. You can search by All, Education, Volunteering, Environment, Arts, and Rural. The information is available to the public for free. From the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 9 because sites help people post their organizations and finding jobs. The sites are up to date because on the bottom of the page it says 2012. I would not change anything to this site, because it provides all the details that the public need.
Encyclopedia: http://www.encyclopedia.com/. This website is sponsored by HighBeam Research, Inc. Free access to reference works such as The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford's World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography and many others. Contains free citations and excerpts to periodical articles. Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations. The website gaining profits by you have to pay money to read full text of articles. The Highbeam site sharing information to the public through a governmental portal. The sites brings value to students by helping students get a better ideas of how to use Encyclopedias online and it can be used in an academic environment .Encyclopedia.com is an ideal online reference source for researchers, students, educators, and professionals alike. The information is organized by the subjects broken up into categories such as, Socialized medicine, Afghanistan, global warming, immigration, French Revolution, United Nations, Federal Reserve System, Food Adulteration, and Tiananmen Square. The sites organized by articles, pictures, facts, and biographies along with information about topics like the arts, science, sports, medicine, accounting, and management. The information is freely available to the public, but you have to purchase to view additional content. From the scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a 10 because the site provides current and archived articles from more than 6,500 credible reference works and publications, including newspapers, journals, and magazines. This article archive search is perfect for students looking for homework help, educators wanting to keep up with current information, and businesspeople looking to gain an edge. The site is credible and provides accurate information. I wouldn't do anything to change what is on this site
Dictionaries. Its URL is http://dictionary.reference.com/. The website sponsored by Dictionary .com, LLC. Dictionary.com is the best general English-language dictionary online. Its simple search form hides a sophisticated multi-source search of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Word Net, The Free Online Dictionary of Computing, Jargon File, The Elements, Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary, Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary, and U.S. Gazetteer. This site provides reliable, free online access to millions of English definitions, synonyms, spelling, and audio pronunciations. This site is a good resource for anyone to use. This site is an educational site. On the homepage it has advertisements and maybe that is how the site gains profits. Dictionary.com provides a good educational tool for students. You can get help on these sites with looking up words and meaning. It can be used in an academic environment. On the home page you may search items such as, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word Dynamo, Quotes, Reference, Translator, and Spanish. If you want to search for famous people click on Quotes and it bring up Top Author and Topic subjects. Word Dynamo provides you free study guides, quizzes and games as well. Also, under Word Dynamo it gives you Grade levels, Standardized Tests, Academic Subjects, and Languages. The information is freely available to the public to use. On a scale from 1-10, I would say a 10 because it provides useful information for Adults and school age. The site is credible and provides accurate information. I wouldn't do anything to change what is on this site.
I have used Dictionary.com multiple times. I only use it whenever I'm already occupying the computer since it's pretty handy, quick and much more practical then running to my bookcase to search for the tangible dictionary book. I do of course still use my hard copy dictionary whenever I'm off of the computer and in need of a quick word look up. I would also give Dictionary.com a definite score of 10. the information provided is useful, efficient and importantly correct. Plus, the website itself does seem to make it easy for users to browse and do searches. I wouldn't change anything about it either. I do wonder if Dictionary.com has an app that I can install on my mobile device. That would be a great portable dictionary that is credible and trustworthy.
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