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Writing Skills & Tasks

General Writing Resource Collections

1. Principles of Composition

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm

2. Good advice about a wide range of writing situations

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/

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

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

4. Resources for Writers—from help with Abbreviations to grammar to Writer’s Block

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/index.html

5. General Online Writing Assistance from Organizing to Editing

http://www.powa.org/

6. Rio Salado College Writing Competency Guide

http://www.rio.maricopa.edu/distance_learning/tutorials/writing_guide/main.shtml

A Listing of Major Online Writing Centers

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/AboutUs/Links.html

Editing

Checklist for a final Edit

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/finaled.html

Grammar & Mechanics

Grammar

1. Grammar Resource

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.stm

2. Guide to English Grammar

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

3. Common Errors in English

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

Quoting

1. How and when to use Quotation Marks

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/quotes.htm

2. Quotation Marks: A Simple Set of Rules

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

3. How to Quote

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/quotations.html

4. Effectively Incorporating Quotations

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/introquo.html

5. Secondary sources

Quotation Marks with Direct and Indirect Quotations

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_quote.html

Quotation Marks

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

Sentence Combining

Sentences have to be combined to avoid the monotony that would surely result if all sentences were brief and of equal length.

Sentence Combining Basics

http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/acen/writerslab/handouts/pdfs/combining.pdf

Sentence Combining Exercises and Explanations

http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/resource/students.html

Combining sentences: Examples, Mastery Quiz…

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

PreWriting

Brainstorming

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

Brainstorming and Essay Writing

http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/EssayBrainstorming.html

 

Clustering

1. Clustering as a way to organize ideas graphically

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm

Cubing

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Cubing.htm

Invention

Invention: Getting papers started

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

Invention: Planning

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

Freewriting

What is Freewriting?

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~e101comp/literacies/freewriting.html

How to Freewrite

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

Nutshelling

Nutshelling

http://www.studenthub.org/resource_pages/nutshelling.html

Nutshelling: a “Pre-conscious” Writing Strategy. There are no templates to follow for the "unconscious" strategies—brainstorming, freewriting and nutshelling—but these strategies are easily adapted to the computer. Just open a file with your word processor and start typing..

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

Nutshelling Exercise

http://english.utb.edu/courses/composition1/misc/form_nutshelling.htm

Writing Tasks

Abstracting

How to write an abstract

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/bizwrite/abstracts.html

Annotating

1. Writing an Annotation

http://www.studenthub.org/resource_pages/annotate.htm

2. How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography

http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill28.htm

3. Annotated Bibliography

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/AnnotatedBibliography.htmlAn annotated bibliography is, simply, an organized list of sources, each of which is followed by a brief note or "annotation." These annotations do one or more of the following: describe the content and focus of the book or article; suggest the source's usefulness to your research; evaluate its method, conclusions, or reliability; record your reactions to the source.

4.Annotated Bibliography: Annotations vs. Abstracts

http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill28.htm#annot

5. The contents of Annotations

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/AnnotatedBibliography.html#content

How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

http://www.brocku.ca/sdc/learning/study_write_manual.pdf

Concluding

Strategies for Writing Effective Conclusions

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/conclusions.html

Strategies for Writing a Conclusion

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html

Writing Conclusions

http://troy.troy.edu/writingcenter/handouts.html

Introducing

Introductions

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/introductions.html

Introduction Strategies

http://web.mit.edu/writing/Writing_Types/introstrategies.html

Online Technical Writing: Introductions

http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/

How to Write Introductions

http://www.taft.cc.ca.us/newTC/Academic/LiberalArts/OWL/INTRO.HTML

Journal Keeping

Journal Ideas

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~etherida/journaltopics.html

Keeping a Learning Journal

http://www.cod.edu/anschicks/facsite/Journal.html

Paraphrasing

1. Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

 

Revising

 

Correct

What is an error in English?

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Questions for Self or Peer Review

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/revision_questions.htm

Revise

Quick guide to revision of papers

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

Revising from a Teacher's Comments

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/teacher_comments.html

Summarizing

1. How to write a Summary

http://cwl.oregonstate.edu/h-sum.html

2. Process for Writing a Summary

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/summary.html

3. How to Summarize a Complex Article

http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/lrnres/handouts/1241a.html

4. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html

5. Summary Writing (long, exhaustive treatment)

http://www.coas.drexel.edu/humanities/faculty/thury/summary_writing.html

Thesis & Support

Generalizing

1. How to write a good Introduction/Generalization

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/foropen.htm

Giving the main idea

1. Thesis Statement

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

2. Finding and Paraphrasing the Main Ideas

http://www.studenthub.org/resource_pages/paraphrasing.htm

Selecting a Topic

1. Questions to ask yourself when choosing a topic and information to get you started

http://www.ku.edu/~coms/virtual_assistant/vpa/vpa2.htm

2. Narrowing a Topic from Subject to Thesis

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/subject_to_thesis.html

Support

1. Supporting your Points

http://www.ku.edu/~coms/virtual_assistant/vpa/vpa5.htm

2. Using Evidence Well

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

Writing a Thesis Statement

1. Developing Your Thesis

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

2. How To Write a Thesis Statement

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml

3. Writing or Revising a Thesis Statement

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/writing_revising_thesis.htm

4. Writing an Effective Thesis Statement

http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/student_resources/effective_thesis.html

Writing for the Web

1. Writing for the Web

http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

2. Guide to Writing for the Web

http://wdvl.internet.com/Internet/Writing/

Inverted Pyramid

1. Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9606.html

2. Writing for the Web: The Great Pyramids

http://www.webreference.com/new/webnotes2.html

 

 

 

Last update: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:51 PM