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writing | research | career | reading | nonprofits The University of Pittsburgh Writing Center (M-2 Thaw Hall) offers free one-on-one writing help to all Pitt students. A Writing Center consultant can help students at any point in the composing process. For more information and hours, call (412) 624-6556 or visit their webpage. Avoiding Plagiarism Pitt's Literature Program offers a very helpful page that explains what plagiarism is and how writers can avoid it. The University of Wisconsin/La Crosse has created a webpage of excellent resources on avoiding plagiarism (including examples of acceptable and unacceptable borrowing from texts). Editing Documents Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides explanations and exercises for punctuation and other issues. Grammar Now offers many handouts and individualized answers to specific questions. Improving Style David McMurrey has written a concise explanation of how to improve style by avoiding nominalizations and passive voice and so on. While he wrote the page with technical writing students in mind, his advice is helpful for many writers. Citation Resources Hillman Library offers a set of links on various citation styles (including MLA, APA, Chicago, and others). The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center offers information on Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
Searching the Internet Google is an excellent search engine that can be useful in your research. Nancy Blachman has put together interactive tutorials on using Google. Interviewing Carter McNamara has put together guidelines for interviewing. A program at MIT provides some tips for conducting successful interviews.
University of Pittsburgh Support Career Services (224 William Pitt Union) offers a range of services from on-line self help tools to on-campus recruiting to workshops on interviewing and other skills needed to get a job. Explore what Placement and Career Services has to offer. The Office of Experiential Learning (B-4 Thaw Hall) offers information for students who want to earn credit for a range of research, internship, and service learning experiences. An internship or research experience can help students learn more about a field they're considering and can allow them to document their initiative and interest on their resumes. For more information, visit these sites: http://www.pitt.edu/~intern/ or http://www.pitt.edu/~urop/ . Local and Regional Support Information about the Carnegie Library Business Collection (Downtown) Information about Carnegie Library's Job and Career Education Center Xplorion offers an introduction to economic, cultural, artistic, and recreational opportunities of our region. Learning More About Careers and Job Opportunities Pitt's Career Services office houses a Career Resource Library with computers and some books (238 William Pitt Union). Occupational Outlook Handbook Online offers very detailed information about jobs, including the market outlook for the future, average salaries, best regions, and so on. Finding a Job in the Public Sector Monster Public Service allows people to search for jobs in the public sector.
Here are sites where you can read and research. Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have on-line student editions. Spinsanity explores manipulative political rhetoric. Adbusters critiques commercial forces that negatively impact physical and cultural environments.
Understanding Grantwriting The Carnegie Library has a Foundation Center downtown. It offers many resources (both bound and on-line), a newsletter, workshops, and staff help. To find out more, visit their website. The Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute(CaRDI) site seems to have a lot of resources that would be useful for working in communities. Writing and Publishing Op-Eds Communications Consortium Media Center offers help to writers who are working with the media to get effective coverage of nonprofit issues. They offer, for example, advice on writing op-eds.
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