Jim's Grammar and Research Hospital (password protected) opens with grim sounding organ mousic and the introduction:
'Do your returned papers look like the Battle of Gettysburg has been fought on them?
Have you battled with the deadly microfiche in the bowels of the library and lost?
You've come to the right place! We're here to fix you up!'
The resulting menu offers a variety of topics on writing and researching at the college level, with a healthy does of levity to keep perspective as students work through the site. The lessons, tutorials, sampe papers and online tests all provide stduents with the tools to master college english skills.
Jim explains:
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As I believe my students need some humor to go along with their online studies, I created this site. It has already been recognized by the international panel of San Diego's SIGKIDS, and the site was developed under a grant for an online course by the California Virtual Campus, Section 3. The streaming video was kindly made possible by Blaine V. Morrow at Palomar College. I use it in my online English classes as a major component in the "research and argument" phase of their curriculum. "
