Writing Links - all the links you'll ever need
To learn to write is
to learn to have ideas.
Robert Frost
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Writing Links - all the links you'll ever need To learn to write is
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Universities & Colleges:
Online Writing Centers 1. Charles Darling of Capital Community
Technical College in Hartford Connecticut:
Easy-to-use, award-winning
site, includes handouts on writing and style & practice quizzes that are
graded instantly. Includes an " Ask Grammar" feature. It contains
sample essays for traditional modes of composition. Includes grammar level,
sentence level, paragraph level & essay level help. 2. Colorado
State University -
excellent writing help - even invites you to send a draft of
your paper! 3. Maricopa Community
Colleges -
Online demos and distance learning 4. Purdue University: I’ve read that this site is the oldest and most comprehensive online writing center in existence. Plus, it’s easy-to-use. It offers writing labs, resources and internet search tools and strategies. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/index.html 5. University of St. Thomas - The following is a sampling of some of their links
6. Bonus site: Nuts & bolts of Writing - excellent, complete & fun to use http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/nb-home.html Return to Top of Page Alphabetical Listing of Additional Writing Resources Sit back, relax, and jump from one link to the next - 
Antagonyms Home Page: a single word that can have opposite meanings . Realize the impact and nuances of words http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecellis/antagonym.html Arguments: A guide to logic in argumentative writing http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/123.html Book - Elements of Style a top-selling book on writing correctly & with style http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunkCharles Darling of Capital Community
Technical College in Hartford Connecticut:
Easy-to-use, award-winning
site, includes handouts on writing and style & practice quizzes that are
graded instantly.Includes an " Ask Grammar" feature. It contains
sample essays for traditional modes of composition. Includes grammar level,
sentence level, paragraph level & essay level help. Comenius English Language Center: Links for ESL students, exercises to improve reading comprehension, idioms, fables, email penpals from foreign countries http://www.comenius.com/ Common Errors in English & links (it’s/its, who /that, who/whom garbage in garbage out with spellcheckers, prepositions at end of sentence, dinner is done & people are finished) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html Computer Tips: Answers all your computer use questions http://www.computertips.com/ Copyright Laws
and
information from the Copyright Website Copyright Information from Cornell University Legal Information Instutute. - an excellent resource for primary sources of copyright law http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html Dave's ESL Cafe - A site with games, activities & daily updates where English is fun http://www.eslcafe.com/ Dictionaries online in over 130 languages - plus links to grammar, linguistic fun and specialized dictionaries http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html The English Research Room: The Bedford/St. Martin's English Research Room contains a collection of research aids intended to be useful for all students, instructors, and writers who engage in research and source-based writing. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/english_research/ English Resources on WWW maintained
by Capital Community Technical College in Hartford English Works - Grammar, tutoring, writing advice... http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/ Evaluating Web pages &
PowerPoint presentations -
excellent
Grammar Goofs http://cctc.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm Grammar & More: A potpourri of all things relating to English grammar. There are 10 General headings with many, many related links under each. Headings include Etymology, Grammar & Usage , linguistic links, newsgroups, puns, reference http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm Grammar Safari - because it's a jungle out there - hundreds of thousands of examples http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/grammarsafari.html Grammar and Style notes from Jack Lynch of Rutgers Univ. Alphabetical listing of topics & links http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ Grammar On Line: from St. John's Wood School of English, London. Grammar clinic, practice page and alphabetical index. Recipient of best education site award http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.cfm Internet Research: Links and advice on researching and documenting papers http://www.useekufind.com/uiresear.htm Maricopa Community Colleges - Online demos and distance learning http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ National Writing Centers
Association: links to handouts, electronic tutoring, grammar hotlines, resources for
writers Research: Guide to getting A+ on research paper from Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus Research & Documentation in the
electronic age Research & more on the Web : This page was originally created for frreshman composition students & provides instruction on finding, evaluating & documenting information on the Web. http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/ Revision: Advice from Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - plus writing links http://www.powa.org/revifrms.htm Technical Writing: Grammar,
Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors -- Mary
K. McCaskill, Langley Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Hampton, Virginia Wayward Intellectual - - Created by a Berkeley instructor for her lit and composition students http://www.waywardintellectuals.com/ Word-A-Day:
Subscribe
and add a word a day to your vocabulary. Word Play: A site that features fun with words. Numerous links to puns, internet dictionaries, word history, cliches, language, and brain food. Add spice to your writing with a deeper understanding of key words. http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm Writing Problems of visual learners - excellent article http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/WriteVisual/WriteVisual.html Writing Class Online - Resources, contests, links... http://www.writingclasses.com/writersnetwork//index.html Links recommended by Downing's newsletter below:
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If you want to recommend additional Web resources, or if you decide to wordprocesss an instructional guide(s) that would be useful for our class, please E-mail them to me. Thanks.
Remember: Good writing is 99 % perspiration and !% inspiration.
This photo of Melville's glasses was taken
by a student
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