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WRITING FOR COLLEGE

Principles of Composition
http://grammar.ccc.
commnet.edu/
grammar/composition/
composition.htm

The Writing Situation
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/
grammar/

Writing Papers for a Range
of Disciplines: Humanities,
Social Sciences, Sciences

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills
/docs/research_papers.doc

 

General Online Writing
Assistance from Organizing to Editing

http://www.powa.org/

Rio Salado College Writing Competency Guide
http://www.riosalado.edu/
library/owl/Pages/writing
competencyguide.aspx

 

 

 

 

THE WRITING PROCESS

Brainstorming
http://www.graphic.org/
brainst.html

Brainstorming and Essay Writing
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages
/EssayBrainstorming.html
 

 

Cubing
http://users.humboldt.edu/
tduckart/Cubing.htm
 

 
Invention: Getting
papers started

http://www.csuohio.edu/
writingcenter/
invent.html

Invention: Planning
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
handouts/general/gl_plan1.html

Freewriting
http://writing2.richmond.edu
/writing/wweb/freewrite.html

Nutshelling
http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/
prewriting/unconscious.html

Revising

Quick guide to
revision of paper
s

http://www.csuohio.edu/
writingcenter/revision.html

 

Editing

Checklist for a final Edit
http://writing2.richmond.edu/
writing/wweb/finaled.html

THESIS & SUPPORT

Thesis Statement
http://www.csuohio.edu/
writingcenter/thesis.html

Developing Your Thesis
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/
materials/student/ac_paper/
develop.shtml

How To Write a Thesis Statement http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/
pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml
 

 

Support

Using Evidence Well
http://courses.washington.edu
/spcmu/334/Redesign/evidence.html

INTRODUCTIONS & CONCLUSIONS

How to Write Introductions
http://www.taftcollege.edu/instruct
/LiberalArts/OWL/iandc.htm

 

 

 

 

GRAMMAR 

Online English Grammar - recommended for non-native English speakers

The HyperGrammar
Guide to Grammar and Writing

Grammar Resource
http://grammar.ccc.
commnet.edu/g
rammar/composition/
composition.htm
 

Guide to English Grammar
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.
edu/grammar/

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/
~brians/errors/errors.html

Sentence Combining

Combining sentences: Examples
http://cctc2.commnet.edu/
sensen/part1/seven/index.html

REFERENCES

Language


Biographical Dictionary
 
Dictionary.com

Literature

Literary Resources on the Net -
Shakespeare
A Celebration of Women Writers' Voices From the Gaps -
Voice of the Shuttle

Other OWLs


Purdue Online Writing Lab
Texas Tech University

WRITING & READING

 

Annotating

 

Annotated Bibliography
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/
Handbook/AnnotatedBibliography.html

 

The contents of Annotations
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/
AnnotatedBibliography.html#content

 

QUOTING

 

Quotation Marks:
A Simple Set of Rules

http://www.grammarbook.com/
punctuation/quotes.asp

 

Effectively Incorporating Quotations http://writing2.richmond.edu/
writing/wweb/introquo.html
 

 
Quotation Marks with Direct and Indirect Quotations
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
handouts/grammar/
g_quote.htmlQuotation

Quotation Marks
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/
arts/writcent/hypergrammar/
qmarks.html

Paraphrasing

Paraphrase:
Write it in Your Own Words

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/h
andouts/research/r_paraphr.html

Summarizing

 

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
/handouts/
research/r_quotprsum.html

CITATION

MLA Style Guide
The Columbia Guide to Online Style: Second Edition (book)
APA - American Psychological Association Style Guide
CBE - Council of Biology Editors Style Guide
Chicago Style

WRITING & THE WEB

Writing for the Web
http://www.useit.com/papers
/webwriting/

 

Inverted Pyramid

Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9606.html

Writing for the Web: The Great Pyramids
http://www.webreference.com/
new/webnotes2.html

 

WRITING & LEARNING

Keeping a Learning Journal
http://www.audiencedialogue.net/
journal.html

WRITING & JOB SEEKING

Writing chronological résumés
http://writing.colostate.edu/
guides
/documents/resume/
chronological.cfm

 


ARGUING

What makes for a good argumentative paper?

CRITIQUING

How to write
a critical review

http://www.wisc.edu/
writing/Handbook
/CriNonfiction.html#assignment

Writing a persuasive essay

Essentials of effective persuasive essays
http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/
Effective_essays.html

 

Interesting approaches to structuring a persuasive presentation

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/cwic/
resources/so2.html

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

 

 

Compare/contrast papers
http://depts.washington.edu/
pswrite/compare.html
 

 

 What is a comparison/contrast essay
http://home.earthlink.net/~lazarski
/home/CChints.htm

DEFINING

How to write a definition
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
/owl/resource/622/01/

 Definition essay
http://www2.actden.com/
writ_den/tips/essay/define.htm

Essay instruction terms: define
http://www.mantex.co.uk/
samples/inst.htm
 

 

DESCRIBING

How to write a description
http://www.engl.niu.edu/
wac/descr_how.html
 

 

 

 

 

REVIEWING

Book review
http://www.well.com/user/
ladyhawk/bookrevs.html

 Book review and critique
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/
advice/specific-types-of-writing/book-review
 

How to write a book review
http://library.queensu.ca/
research/guide/book-reviews

 

 Writing book reviews
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewts/pamphlets
/book_reviews.shtml

Writing reviews
http://www.cgu.edu/
pages/835.asp

WRITING FOR THE HUMANITIES

Writing papers of literary analysis http://homepages.wmich.edu
/~cooneys/tchg/lit/adv
/lit.papers.html
 

 

 

 

Structuring your history essay http://academic.bowdoin.edu/
WritingGuides/three parts.htm

 

 

 

WRITING FOR THE SCIENCES

 

How to keep 
a chem lab notebook

http://www.dartmouth.edu/
~chemlab/i
nfo/notebooks/how_to.html

 

Report writing in the sciences: Sample biology lab report
http://www.hamilton.edu/
writing/biolab.html

 

 

 

RESEARCH PAPERS

Writing a research paper: Comprehensive overview (handbook)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
workshops/hypertext/
ResearchW/index.html
 

 

 

 

 

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