General Writing Resources
- Getting it Write: The College Writing Tutorial Website
- The Online Writing Lab at Purdue
- The University of Richmond's Writers' Web
- Online ESL Resources
Organization/Outlining/Paper Structure
Thesis Statements/Argumentation
- Writing Effective Thesis Statements
- Supporting an Argument
- Common Logic Problems
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
- Shared Stories by Cara Stoddard
Overall Style and Sentence Structure/Clarity/Variety
- How to write funny in places where you normally wouldn't by Danny Caine [Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer]
Grammar/Punctuation
- Spell Check Didn't Catch That? Common Homonyms Explained by Jason Stewart
- One Trick Words and Further Wordplay
- He Be Studyin': Intro to African American Vernacular English by Marcos Gonzales
Documentation, Citation, and Reference
- Mechanics of Quoting
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Citing Your Sources from Emory University Libraries
- Paraphrasing handout from the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas
Style Guides and Formatting
- MLA Style Guide
- APA Style Guide
- Chicago/Turabian Style Guide
- Writing in the Historical/Literary Present