This is another database that I have never used. At EMMC we do get occasional questions concerning practice guides for exams related to certification in various health care professions so this database has potential for our patrons.
I chose the Certified Medical Assistant Practice Exam 1 and did a few questions. The exam seemed well-designed to me. There was a good amount of information provided explaining why the choices were correct or not.
I added the course, Business Writing: Write for Clarity to My Center and took a look at it. The entire course was a good length and each section was fairly short so the reader wouldn't get bogged down reading the section. There were a lot of examples of good business writing/poor business writing to show the reader how to distinguish between the two. The course seemed like a good fit for the category of Workplace Skills and I would feel comfortable referring a patron to it.
I searched for "libraries" in the search box and found 4 e-books. I took a look at "Research & Writing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day." This was a 2003 book, 141 pages long, and quite detailed about writing a research paper. It seemed to me to be appropriate for a college-level student (but I'm out of my area here). I would have liked a brief description of it somewhere in order to know a bit more before adding it to My Center (maybe there was one and I just missed it). I don't know how many students would wade through this book. Can you search it and just print out chapters?
I'm going to show my staff this resource because of the practice exams for certification. I think the courses and ebooks are probably less useful for our setting.
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