Writing Center Resources

Writing Tutorials and Academic Resources

• The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Many interactive tutorials, worksheets, and more
• Excelsior College Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Grammar Slammer! - This site offers a wide range of information on grammar and punctuation from commas to capitalization to common mistakes.
• Common Errors in English - This guide lists several hundred errors as well as non-errors and commonly misspelled words. Compiled by Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University.
• Ten Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - Comic from The Oatmeal
• Grammar Bytes
• The Writer's Handbook - from the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

• Roget's Thesaurus - Helps you find synonyms.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary - Online English Dictionary with thesaurus.
• Dictionary.com - Helps you look up any English word.
• Thesaurus.com - Helps you find synonyms.

Online Texts

• Project Bartleby - Online texts.
• Elements of Style by William Strunk - A classic text on grammar and composition.
• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• HathiTrust - Millions of digitized titles from libraries around the world.
• Internet Archive - Digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts.

Research and Style Guides

• American Chemical Society Style Guidelines Quick Guide - from UC Berkley
• APA Style Guide
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
• MIT Literature Resources
• MLA on the Web
• New York Review of Books

Resume Writing

• Resumes, Cover Letters, and Career Correspondence - Sample resumes, cover letters, and other career correspondence from St. John Fisher College.

Literacy

• Literacy.org - "Research and innovation for a more literate world."

Study Skills

• Study and Learning Skills Online - from Charles Darwin University

Faculty Resources

• Rutgers Writing Program - Resources for teaching.
• National Council of Teachers of English
• MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
• Atlantic Unbound
• University of Minnesota Writing Enriched Curriculum (WEC)

Graduate Resources

• Dissertation and Thesis Assistance - from Texas A&M