Resources for Writers
Writing Process
Reading and Note-Taking
Invention / Pre-Writing
- Decoding an Assignment – What Now?
- Brainstorming: How to Get Started
- Outlining (from The Writing Center @ UNC Chapel Hill)
Drafting / Composing
- Getting Unstuck: Strategies for Overcoming Writer’s Block
- Writing Theses and Claims
- Incorporating Sources
- Advice on Quoting and Paraphrasing
- Strategies for Effective Conclusion Writing
- Paragraph Development (from The Writing Center @ UNC Chapel Hill)
Citation and Style
- Citation and Its Uses
- APA Formatting and Style Guide
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide
- Chicago Formatting and Style Guide
Revision
Guides to Various Genres of Writing
- Philosophy Papers
- Speeches
- Literary Analysis
- Statement of Purpose (NOT Personal Statement)
- Annotated Bibliographies
Grammar and Mechanics
- Teacher-Created Advanced Grammar Worksheets
- Self-Study Grammar Quizzes
Verb Tenses, Aspects, and Moods
Articles
Count/Noncount Nouns
Collective Nouns
- Common Collective Nouns and Guidelines
- Guide to Plural Nouns
Collocations (Words that are commonly found together)
- Just the Word: Corpus-Based Search Engine of Collocations (video tutorial)
- Word and Phrase (video tutorial)
Transition Words and Phrases
Parallelism
- Basic and useful explanation of parallelism
Prepositions
- Academic/Abstract Prepositions Exercise
- How to Choose Prepositions with Abstract Nouns