Writing Resources

University Writing Centers

These web sites contain many useful tutorials and handouts on all aspects of the writing process.

• Writing Center (Colorado State)
• Writer's Guide (UVic)
• Writing Center (Arizona State)
• Writers' Workshop (UIUC)
• Writing Center (Richmond)
• Writing Center (Purdue)
• Writing Center (Wisconsin)
• Writing Center (Rensselaer)

Citation Guidelines

• MLA.org
• MLA documentation (U Wisconsin)
• APA Style for Electronic References
• Chicago style citation guidelines (U Wisconsin)
• Chicago Manual of Style: FAQ

Plagiarism

• Policy on Plagiarism: (Calvin College)
• Electronic Plagiarism Seminar (Le Moyne College)
• Plagiarism: what it is and how to recognize and avoid it (Indiana U)
• Plagiarism: from CETL resources for teaching
• Center for Academic Integrity (Duke U)

Creative Writing

• Write 4 Kids: the children's writing supersite
• Poets & Writers Magazine
• Inside Creative Writing: watch a Pulitzer Prize winner create an original story
• SFWA: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.
• Creative Writing: Voice of the Shuttle
• The Write Page: online newsletter

Journalism

• Reporters Network

The Writing Process

• Allyn & Bacon's CompSite
• Five Revising Principles (U Illinois)
• Developing a Thesis Statement (U Illinois)
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Grammar and Style

• Guide to Grammar and Writing (Capital CC)
• English Grammar Clinic
• Hacker Handbook Exercises: requires Macromedia Shockwave
• KISS Grammar Site (PA College of Tech)
• HyperGrammar (U Ottawa)
• Online English Grammar: EduFind 
• Grammar and Style Guide by Jack Lynch (Rutgers) 
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• Common Word Usage Errors
• Sentence Combining Practice: Gutenberg Exchange
• Combinations for Competence: sentence combining (Phillips Academy Andover)
• English Grammar Links for ESL Students (U Maryland)
• Grammar Rock: bringing back memories of childhood Saturday mornings 

Punctuation

• Punctuation: from A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors
• Capitalization from A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors

Rhetoric

• Rhetcomp.com
• H-Rhetor: a forum for scholars and teachers of the history of rhetoric, writing, and communication
• Rhetoric and Christian Tradition

Handbooks

• Silva Rhetoricae: fantastic handbook of rhetorical devices
• Glossary of Rhetorical Figures (U Kentucky)
• List of Rhetorical Devices: (U Ottawa)
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: Virtual Salt

Journals

• RhetNet: a dialogic publishing (ad)venture
• JAC: journal of comp. theory--archives
• KAIROS: journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy
• pretext: a journal of rhetorical theory

Miscellaneous

• Propaganda from the Institute for Propaganda Analysis
• Ancient Rhetoric: (Georgia State)
• Rhetoric Resources at Tech (Georgia Tech)