Getting Started
- The Writing Situation
- Writing Papers for a Range of Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences
- General Online Writing Assistance from Organizing to Editing
Finding Ideas
- Brainstorming
- Brainstorming and Essay Writing
- Cubing
- Invention: Getting papers started
- Invention: Planning
- Freewriting
- Nutshelling
Writing the Thesis Statement
Writing Introductions and Conclusions
- How to Write Introductions
- Introduction Strategies
- Strategies for Writing a Conclusion
- Writing Conclusions
Revising
Editing and Proofreading
- The HyperGrammar Guide to Grammar and Writing Grammar Resource
- Guide to English Grammar
- Common Errors in English
- Sentence Combining Basics
- Combining sentences: Examples
Looking up Words
Looking for Online Writing Labs
Abstracting and Annotating
Quoting
- How and when to use Quotation Marks
- Quotation Marks: A Simple Set of Rules
- Effectively Incorporating Quotations
- Quotation Marks with Direct and Indirect Quotations
- Quotation Marks
- Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
- Process for Writing a Summary
- Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
Citing your Sources
Writing and Job Seeking
Arguing and Writing Persuasively
- What makes for a good argumentative paper?
- Essentials of effective persuasive essays
- Interesting approaches to structuring a persuasive presentation
Critiquing
Comparing and Contrasting
- Guide to writing a comparison/contrast essay
- Compare/contrast papers
- What is a comparison/contrast essay
Defining
- How to write a definition
- Definition essay
- Essay instruction terms: define
- Definitions: Web research glossary
Describing
- Writing descriptions
- How to write a description
- Things to consider as you write your descriptive essay
Reviewing
- Book review
- Book review and critique
- How to write a book review
- Steps for writing a good book review
- Writing book reviews
- Writing reviews
- Writing book reviews