Writing Links

Composition, Grammar and Usage

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar Capital Community Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut provides extensive interactive review in topics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, as well as work on paragraph and essay development. Interactive quizzes are available in many topics.

http://www.dianahacker.com/bedhandbook/ Diana Hacker's Bedford Handbook is decidedly one of the best on the market, and her website is open for general use rather than password-protected like most publisher's sites. The exercises at this site give excellent feedback.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htmThe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the home of the National Council of Teachers of English. The Writers' Workshop site provides an excellent grammar handbook, but no exercises are available.

http://www.powa.org/ Paradigm Online Writing Assistant provides clear guidelines for all phases of the writing process. Sections on writing the expository essay (they use the term thesis support essay) and the argumentative essay are very helpful, as are the editing and revising sections. Exercises are limited, however, and not interactive.

Purdue University’s site is very extensive. At http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html, you will find these helpful links that include PowerPoint presentations:

“Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process,”

“Organizing Your Argument,”

“Sentence Clarity and Combining”

“Conquering the Comma.”

Go to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ for handouts and worksheets on various aspects of writing.

English as a Second Language

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html TESL Journal provides self-study quizzes in grammar topics that are especially troublesome to ESL students.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html has handouts and exercises on grammar especially for ESL.

APA and MLA Research Paper Guidelines

http://adminservices.clayton.edu/library/TutorialsWrite.html The library at Clayton College and State University provides excellent links to assistance in following the formatting requirements of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Modern Language Association (APA).

http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides online examples of its format requirements for citing web sources.

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm Capital Community Technical College also provides excellent online guidelines to MLA style.

	“Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process,”
	“Organizing Your Argument,”
	“Sentence Clarity and Combining”
	“Conquering the Comma.”