Cool Tools for Adult Learners

Hope you are all excited and looking forward to taking classes at MCC!

Here are the links to the websites we discussed:

Middlesex County College website

Reading
Calculate Your Reading Speed

Test Your Reading Speed

Speed Reading Pacing Methods

The SQ3R Reading Method

SQ4R and alternatives

Writing
The OWL at Purdue

Citation Machine

Assignment Calculator

Test Preparation
Accuplacer Self-Assessment

Accuplacer- Mathematics

Accuplacer Practice Tests

You can also look for SAT test preparation books in your local library.

The Testing Center (Johnson Learning Center Rm 229) has handouts of sample test questions.

Research
MCC Library's Homepage
Searching our catalog iBistro and close to 20,000 libraries in Worldcat does not require a password and ID. All of the databases listed under "Magazines, Newspaper and Journals Articles" and "Reference, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc." can be searched on campus, but you must be a current MCC student to search them from home.

Cost of Living Calculator

Librarian's Index to the Internet

Infomine

Frank Potter's Science Gems

Google Book

Google Scholar

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