Writing Skills Resources
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Grammar |
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- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Review grammar, punctuation, and capitalization rules. There is also a "Commonly Confused Words" section.
- Exercises at Grammar Bytes Test your grammar skills with these interactive exercises.
- Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing Mignon Fogarty or "Grammar Girl" provides tips on grammar, punctuation, word choice, style, and more to help you write a meaningful and clear paper.
- Guide to Grammar and Writing From the Capital Community College in Hartford Connecticut, this a comprehensive guide that covers parts of speech, punctuation, sentence structure, writing a five paragraph essay, and writing a research paper.
- A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices From the site: "This [site] contains definitions and examples of more than sixty traditional rhetorical devices, all of which can still be useful today to improve the effectiveness, clarity, and enjoyment of your writing."
- How to Use English Punctuation Correctly Discusses proper capitalization, punctuation marks at the end of sentences, commas, colons and semicolons, hyphens and dashes, apostrophes, slashes, and more.
- Khan Academy: Grammar A collection of online lessons about grammar.
- Quill Provides grammar practice for students.
- The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Style Explains parts of speech, sentence structure, case, agreements, punctuation, and writing/editing tips. Also has practice exercises and quizzes.
- Writing Explained Provides help with confusing words, grammar, style guides, abbreviations, literary terms, and more.
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Research and Writing Papers |
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- APA Format for Students and Researchers Provides guidelines and examples of how to cite a variety of sources using the APA format.
- Citation Fox University of Albany maintains this citation creator using MLA format (APA format also available).
- Citation Machine This tool helps create work cited pages.
- Cite This for Me Puts your sources in proper citation format which then can be downloaded.
- EasyBib This is an excellent resource when writing out a Works Cited page.
- A Google a Day Test your online searching skills with this site. Each day new questions are generated. Can you find the answers?
- Knight Cite The Hekman Library at Calvin College provides thie citation creator that follows MLA, APA, and Chicago citation styles.
- Live Binder This online tool allows you to organize websites, PDF documents, Word documents into an online binder. A great resource for research papers.
- MLA Format: Everything You Need to Know Here Provides guidelines and examples of how to cite a variety of sources using the MLA format.
- Owl Handouts From Purdue University, there are numerous handouts that teachers and students can use to help improve writing skills including brainstorming, grammar, punctuation, spelling, research skills, professional writing, and more.
- Paper Rater This is a free resource which will check for grammar errors, possible plagiarism, and offers tips to help improve your writing. A very valuable resource.
- Plagiarism Checker Enter a phrase and see if it has been plagiarized. A very useful tool!
- Print Friendly This site allows you to print websites without excessive graphics, ads, etc.
- Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students Bowdoin College in Maine provides a series of guides on how to prepare for a research paper. Focus is on researching and writing history, but strategies are adaptable to other areas.
- Sources and Citation at Dartmouth College Dartmouth College created this site that explains why it is important to cite sources, what plagiarism is, and how to cite sources using the MLA format.
- Standard Documentation Formats Explains how to cite sources within your research paper using footnotes, MLA, APA, and numbered note system.
- University of Illinois Subject Research Guide Provides advice on how to search for typical research topics including what search terms to use, databases you should try, books, articles, statistics, websites, and more. Please note that some resources listed are only available for university students.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center Tips & Tools Compiles instructions and advice on how to write different types of papers, citations, grammar, and more.
- Using Primary Sources in Your Writing Discusses what primary sources are, where to find them on the web, how to evaluate them, and how to cite them, from American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association.
- Writing a Research Paper The University of Wisconsin at Madison's Writing Center outlines the process involved in planning and writing a research paper.
- Zotero Allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share sources for your research.
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Journalism |
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- Journalist's Resource Provides articles in the areas of government, economics, environment, politics, society, and international. Also includes tips for journalists or budding journalists and suggesting syllabi for teachers.
- Journalist's Toolbox Journalism professor Mike Reilley created this site in 1996 and provides resources to journalists a variety of topics and issues.
- oTranscribe Upload a recording of an interview and this web tool helps transcribe it.
- School Journalism Provides tips for student journalists and resources that can be very useful in putting together a school newspaper.
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Other |
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- How (and Why) to Write a Business Letter Demonstrates how to format and organize a business letter.
- Letter Writing Guide Contains tips, advice, and samples of a variety of business and friendly letters.
- Pen and the Pad Writing resource to help writers with citing, grammar, poetry, rhyming, and editing.
- The Write Practice Provides writers of all kinds of advice on how to improve their writings.
- Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
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