Writing Resources on the Internet
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URL addresses to go directly to a site.
Saint Joseph
College’s Academic Resources Center—This site contains many useful handouts
related to writing. Use this link to go
directly to the table of contents for all online handouts. Handouts are available on such topics as
organizing papers, usage, research writing, and documentation styles like MLA
and APA. http://www.sjc.edu/Academic/academic/ARC/handouts/index.htm
Purdue
University's OnLine Writing Handouts—To access many useful handouts about
writing, click on the Purdue site and browse the handouts table of contents of
handouts. Handouts cover a range of topics from how to document using different
styles, to revising and editing tips, to usage rules. Just about any handout
you want on writing is at this site. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
MIT
OnLine Writing Handouts— Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
writing site works much like the Purdue one, offering handouts on a number of
topics related to writing papers. The table of contents contains links to other
useful sites for writers. http://web.mit.edu/writing
Writing
Guides—This site works like an online textbook and covers everything from
learning writing processes to advanced researching. http://writing.colostate.edu/reference.htm
One
Look dictionaries—2,866,454 words in 576 dictionaries are at your
fingertips merely by typing in the word you need to know. This site is not only
handy when you aren’t close to a dictionary, but it is especially effective
when you encounter terms in courses that are specialized to the discipline you
are studying. http://www.onelook.com/
Roget’s
Thesaurus—This is a quick and easy way to generate synonyms when you are
working online. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Merrian-Webster—The
dictionary publisher makes available online both its dictionary and thesaurus.
According to the New York Times, the site gets 50,000 hits an hour at
peak times of the day. http://www.m-w.com
The
Elements of Style by Strunk and White—When writers need a good
"talking to" about ways to improve their writing, they read this
classic, small book of writing do’s and don’t’s. Now you can read it online or
consult it to check rules of usage, principles of composition, issues of style
and form, and to study words and expressions that are commonly misused. http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations—Looking for a quotation to add zest to your writing or
trying to check the source of a quotation you know, check this site. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
Paradigm
Interactive Online Writing Coaching—Although there is no substitute for
working well with a good teacher, there are times when you need an interactive
lesson about an aspect of writing that is challenging you and your teacher
isn’t there. This site will walk you through each step in your writing process
with good advice and helpful prompts to get you writing effectively. http://www.powa.org/
Help
with Citing Online Sources—This is one of the most comprehensive sites for
research writers who use web sources. You can do everything here from checking
documentation style of online sources to learning about evaluating their
validity. http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/cyber.htm
Web
Search Engines Review—This site can help you select the best search engines
on the web for your research needs. http://gold.jccc.net/websearch.html
APA
Site Frequently Asked Questions—This site offers explanations of the APA
citation formats. http://www.apa.org/journals/faq.html
Milton’s Web for Evaluating Online
Sources—Need to check to determine if a web site reference is credible for
a college paper. Visit this online resource
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