Online Resources
About this Guide
While student writers benefit most from working with
other writers, sometimes finding another person to read an essay, answer
a question, help brainstorm or focus an idea is an impossible
task. The Internet provides a wealth of resources for
student writers (and teachers as well). Unfortunately, it is often
difficult to separate the good from the bad.
This brief guide is a small attempt to initiate that filtering process. However, please remember that the sites listed below offer a variety of approaches, and represent a range of methodological, pedagogic, and theoretical positions, so it is important to browse through them and find those that suit your needs and working style.
APA/MLA
Citation Guides
MLA
Citation Guide
Microsoft Word or
Adobe PDF
APA
Citation Guide
Microsoft Word or
Adobe PDF
NOTE: Some of the links may not be working anymore.
The Writing Process/Getting Started
The OWL at Purdue University
Probably the most comprehensive collection of writing information on the
web, this site provides handouts for students and teachers as well as
PowerPoint presentations and hypertext workshops.
AllWrite! 2.0 from McGraw-Hill
This is the second version of McGraw-Hill’s acclaimed grammar and usage
writing software. Besides information on writing and doing research,
you’ll find here a virtually unlimited number of quizzes, and assessment
tools.
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
This award-winning page can help you grasp essay writing basics through
an interactive step-by-step guide for writing a basic essay from topic
selection through the works cited.
Literacy Education Online
Home of "The Write Place," this website offers a wealth of material on
all aspects of writing.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Winner of many awards, this website by Michael Harvey of Washington
College, explains in great detail the elements of effective college
writing.
Paradigm on-line Writing Assistant
Completely interactive, this award-winning site allows you to work
through virtually every step of your essay on-line.
TopLinks
This site provides an extensive and interesting topical database of
links to resources on a variety of topics.
The Writer's Web
Maintained by the Writing Center at the University of Richmond, this
site offers invention strategies and help with the early stages of
drafting a paper.
Grammar, Mechanics & Vocabulary
E-Library of Exercises
Houghton-Mifflin provides this collection of exercises as a companion to
their reading and writing textbooks.
Exercise Central
Exercise Central, the largest collection of editing exercises available
online, provides practice editing grammar, style, punctuation, and
mechanics. Instructors must register first with Bedford/St. Martin.
Grammar Slammer
A not very pretty but very complete site devoted to definitions of
grammatical terms and examples of correct and incorrect usage.
Webgrammar's Place
This site provides tips, tutorials, and resources for writers, students,
editors, educators, and web designers.
The Longman Vocabulary Website
This companion site to the Longman series on vocabulary offers exercises
to build vocabulary.
ESL Resources
English as a Second Language (ESL) Handouts and Resources
This page is an index of all of the ESL materials available at the
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
ESL at Houghton Mifflin
This large collection of online activities, textbooks, and dictionaries
provides students with a wide array of innovative resources, including
XPRESLINK, an Internet activity designed to help students develop
language skills from authentic web sites.
Keys for Writers
This companion website for Ann Raimes'
Keys for
Writerss
English as a Second Language
Rong-Chang Li's website offers a large collection of resources for ESL
learners who want to learn English through the web.
Style
Conciseness
This page offers a short (and un attributed) discussion of Joseph
Williams' advice for making writing more concise.
Appropriate Language
This page provides an extensive guide to producing gender-neutral
writing.
Documentation
Documentation Guides: MLA and APA
This Purdue University OWL site offers extensive explanations and
examples for MLA and APA documentation styles, as well as pages on
evaluating sources and writing research papers.
Model Documents Gallery
This site provides overviews and examples of the format required for
business and technical writing, humanities writing, and natural and
applied science writing.
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
The JFK Library at CSULA has put together this collection of links to
information on citation formats.
Rhetoric/Argument
Argumentation/Persuasion
This is a simple but informative introduction to writing an
argumentative essay.
Index of Literary and Rhetorical Terms
This website, developed by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, supplies a
comprehensive hyperlinked list of literary and rhetorical terms.
Miscellaneous
Web Resources for Writers
Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors, authors of The Everyday Writer
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Online Info from A Writer's Reference
This Bedford/St. Martin's site offers detailed information on research
and documentation.