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Tips on
Writing Essays |
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Way to
Write An interactive writing
guide from Calgary University. |
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
The links for POWA are at the top of the page and take
you through the entire writing process. Links also include
argumentative essays, exploratory essays, and
documentation. |
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Techniques for Writing
Twelve lessons on techniques for writing paragraphs and essays. |
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Composition Handouts for Essay Writing
The Stone Writing Center covers types of essays and parts
of essays. |
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Parts of the Essay
Review Parts of an Essay, How to Write an Essay,
and Kinds of Essays. |
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The Academic Writer
Notes on the main body of an essay, argument, paragraphs, style,
tone, evidence and quizzes available. |
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How to Write a Five-Paragraph Essay
This page contains additional links on essay
writing. |
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How to Study for an Essay Test |
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Adding Sensory Details
Good examples of how to use reasons, examples,
names, numbers, and senses [RENNS model of
details]. |
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Academic
Writing Tips A
complete guide on Academic Writing and Research from the
University of Toronto. Topics include Planning and
Organizing, Reading and Researching, Using Sources, Specific
Types of Writing, Style and Editing , Grammar and Punctuation,
and some Tips for ESL Students. See the links
at the top or scroll the page. |
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Developing an Outline
OWL Purdue's four tips on writing
effective outlines. Other navigation links covering writing
are to the right. |
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Writing for an Audience OWL
Purdue |
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University of Victoria's Writer's Guide
An introduction to planning and writing essays, types of essays, getting started, organizing,
proofreading, common problems, etc. |
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Bedford / St. Martin's Writing Guide
Free registration at this site gives you entry into great
resources for Writing and Rhetoric, Research Resources and
Citing Sources, and Grammar and Style Exercises and
Diagnostics. |
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Strunk's
Elementary Principles of Composition
Making the paragraph the unit of writing: one paragraph for each
topic (subdivision of an essay). |
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Avoiding
Plagiarism
Ways to avoid Plagiarism in your
writing |
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An Exercise on Plagiarism From
McGraw-Hill's Online Learning Center |
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Types of
Essays |
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All Types of Essays and Student Samples
Argumentative, Cause and Effect, Comparison and
Contrast, Definition, Descriptive, Division and Classification,
and Evaluation Essays. |
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Argumentative Essay A lesson on
organization and techniques for writing an argumentative essay. |
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Argumentative Essay Topics Find
meaningful topics on current social, constitutional,
educational, and ethical issues. |
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Advanced Composition
Lessons on writing different types of
academic essays and students' essays. |
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More
Types of Essays Check the links
under Steps to Writing the Essay and Types of Essays. |
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Classification Essays A Power Point
presentation. |
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The Definition Essay |
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This
I Believe Select a theme and
browse many essays written by ordinary writers on that theme.
The site is from thisIbelieve.org. |
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Summaries
and Other Types of Writing |
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Learning Activity on Summary Writing Here
you can learn the process of summary writing, evaluate good and
bad summaries and practice writing your own. |
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Summary Writing A complete
guide on how to write summaries from Colorado State University. |
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Summary Writing From McGraw-Hill
Online Learning Center, Click Interactive Exercises
in the left hand column for How to Summarize an Article.
Next, click Visuals for a powerpoint
review of summary writing. |
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Technical Writing
Scroll to Applications of Technical Writing. |
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Writing
Memos, E-mails, Letters, Essays
A good site for personal business writing. |
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From Personal to Public Writing
- Examine the differences between personal and public modes
of writing and learn to write for a wider public (Commnet site). |
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Edit /
Revise |
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The Edit Grid from San Jose Writes
Explanations and exercises to learn to avoid
common errors. |
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Twelve Common Errors Twelve Common
Errors: An Editing Checklist from University of Wisconsin,
Madison |
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Revision and Editing Strategies
Guides to proofreading and editing. |
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MLA Style Sheet
A concise guide to using the style of the
Modern Language Association in research papers. |
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Citing Sources
UC Berkeley's page to APA and MLA style
guides and a statement on plagiarism. |
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Citing Sources University
of Wisconsin Writing Center |
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Assembling a List of Works Cited
Duke University Guide on how to cite from various
sources. |
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Punctuation Scroll to List and
Examples of Punctuation and Capitalization Rules. |
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Online
Writing Labs |
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Stone
Writing Center Del Mar College
Writing Center provides handouts on Grammar and
Punctuation, composition, Literature, and
Business Writing. |
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Purdue OWL
and
The Purdue Online Writing lab Check
workshop handouts on the right. |
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MLA Power Point Presentation
Learn MLA format from OWL Purdue. |
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Characteristics of an Academic Paper From Dartmouth College, "What is
an Academic Paper? " The links on the right side give
extensive tips on how to write an academic paper. This site is
for very advanced students. |
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Dartmouth Writing Center The Dartmouth Writing Program - Online Writing Materials for
Students |
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Materials for Writing Tutors
Materials for Writing
Tutors - Dartmouth |
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The
Writing Center University of Wisconsin
The Writing Center - University of
Wisconsin-Madison |
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Virtual Writing Center at Rensselaer E-handouts from the Writing center at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
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Introduction to Information Literacy
Modules on Information Literacy - Click the
red arrow to start. |
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Additional Online Writing Labs
Provided by Gonzaga University |
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SPELLING LINKS |
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Interlink
Language Center
Five Levels
of spelling practice.
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Spelling of Irregular Plural Nouns |
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Spelling
Rules for Nouns and Verbs |
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Spelling of
Irregular Verbs |
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ESL
Station
ESL 302/91 |
ESL 302, ESL 91, English 1A: WRITING ESSAYS