Resources
Plagiarism
A comprehensive tutorial on how to avoid plagiarism; how to quote, paraphrase, and summarize; and how to source, introduce, cite, and reference materials.
Procrastination—Avoid It!
This is a must-use tool for students who tend to procrastinate. The Assignment Calculator helps students break up a writing assignment into steps and schedule deadlines for each step. Students are also provided with helpful links to online resources at each step of the writing process.
All-Purpose University Writing Guides
Purdue’s OWL is the most extensive online writing lab on the net, replete with links to other online resources and handouts for both students and instructors on everything from research papers to cover letters. This site also includes writing exercises and online tutorials.
This website provides thorough and well-structured handouts on general writing concerns, citation style, sentence-level concerns, specific writing assignments and contexts, and writing for specific fields. It also features multimedia demos on the stages of the writing process.
Temple University’s well-organized resource offers guides on everything from Composing Arguments and Thesis Statements to Style, Clarity of Expression, and Point of View.
This website provides detailed definitions, writing guides, writing activities, and collections of writing samples. The site also has a specific focus on disciplinary writing and professional writing, with strong examples of both.
Students who need help understanding specific writing tasks or who seek guidance on organizing academic papers will find these visually structured writing guides an asset.
The Writer’s Handbook is full of helpful and highly structured handouts that break down writing assignments and tasks into their components to help students understand and apply them. Handouts cover such topics as Stages of the Writing Process, Common Types of Writing Assignments, Grammar and Punctuation, Improving Your Writing Style, and Citing Your References in Your Paper.
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ESL Resources
This resource page includes two different focuses. First, there’s a list of handouts and links that will help ELL/International students adjust to US Academic life, such as how to write emails, how to talk to professors, learning strategies (vocabulary building, academic reading/writing) and cultural issues in classrooms. The second focus is on “Language Resources,” a list of links and handouts that includes dictionaries, pronunciation guides, and more.
Resources for ESL students and instructors that include Grammar and Mechanics, Practice and Exercises, and Workplace Writing.
This resource has quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help teach English usage, grammar, and vocabulary.
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For Undergraduates
This undergraduate-specific resource offers a long list of online handouts to aid students during the writing process.
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Grammar Resources
This humorous website features an exhaustive list of definitions, examples, and grammatical terms with both interactive and printable exercises and handouts to develop, maintain, and practice your grammatical knowledge.
This site is a quick grammar reference guide that provides clear definitions and illustrates basic grammar rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences, sentence elements, and common problems of usage.
This resource index addresses grammatical concerns at the word, sentence, paragraph, and essay and research levels. It also provides access to quizzes, search devices, and PowerPoint presentations concerning grammar matters.
A sassy resource that provides grammar tips of the day and podcasts of grammar discussions to stream or download. This is a helpful site when you have a specific grammar question such as “affect vs. effect,” “who vs. whom,” or “lay vs. lie.”
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Professional Writing
This site contains thorough guides on professional aspects of writing, including writing and preparing job materials, writing personal statements, and writing funding proposals.
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Science Writing
Rensselaer’s website includes guidelines for science writing and writing in other disciplines, along with reference links to APA and MLA styles.
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Literature Reviews
Here is a 9-minute instructional video on writing literature reviews by the North Carolina State University Libraries.
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