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Writing Paragraphs by Dorothy Turner
Hosted by The University of Ottawa, this comprehensive site divides paragraph
writing into easy-to-follow steps including outlining, organizing, and
developing your paragraph.
Research Papers: Audience
Provides information about why it is important to know who the audience for your
paper is. Also provides links to scholarly articles on writing audience.
Starting to Write
Provides information for students about how to define what the purpose of their
writing is as well as how to stick to that purpose when they begin writing.
The Professor as Audience
This site provides information about writing for professors in disciplines OTHER
than English.
Planning: Thought Starters (Asking the right questions)
This site takes you through a series of questions to help you determine your
topic.
Writing Description
This site focuses primarily on writing the descriptive essay, but also shows how
to incorporate description in any essay.
Narrative Essays
This site explains the principles and conventions of writing narrative essays,
the form that "more than any other" offers writers the chance to think and write
about themselves.
Peer Reviews: Responding to a Draft
This site offers good advice on critiquing another student's work.
General Strategies for Editing and Proofreading
This site offers a good, step-by-step method of editing a paper.
Revising and Editing Your Paper
This site contains a comprehensive guide for editing and revising your essay
from the Citadel Writing Center.
Top Ten Ways to Respond to Other People's Writing
This site gives hints on how to respond to another student's writing from the
Writing Resource Center at Bemidji State.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page
Do you want to get published? This Web site offers a chance to enter a contest
for the worst opening sentence of the worst novel ever written.
Creative Nonfiction
This site is the home of the online journal entitled Creative Nonfiction.
Writers Website
This site provides more than 1,000 links of interest to writers, including
contests, publications, literary agents, and resources.
Evaluating Sources of Information
This site gives useful questions to ask yourself about the sources you locate.
Evaluating Information on the Internet
This site contains a thorough examination of the difference between looking for
information and thinking critically about the information you find.
How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find
This is an excellent Web site that offers critical questions for evaluating
various forms of print media, shows how to tell the difference between scholarly
and non-scholarly periodicals, and offers a table for evaluating Web sites.
Writing Essays in Literature Classes
This site offers general advice on writing persuasive essays.
Writing Persuasive Essays
This site gives step-by-step strategies for writing a persuasive essay.
Planning Your Argument
This site allows you to choose your starting point in the process of writing an
argument, and then offers detailed guidelines for helping you think through each
stage.
Parts of an Argument
This site allows you to choose which components of an argument you would like to
learn more about.
Definitions of Argument
This site defines three main types of argument: academic, formal, and informal.
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