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Listed below are some of the best links we found for
various types of college writing. You'll want to try several of
them to find the one(s) that is (are) best suited to your course
work.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Purdue
University's Online Writing Lab offers an extensive collection
of handouts that address such topics as general writing, grammar,
spelling and punctuation, professional writing (resumes, etc.),
and ESL. You'll also find valuable links to other useful resources
such as scholarly research and academic writing, business and technical
writing, resources for teachers, research, and references.
http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Writing_Center/topical_index.htm
Brown University's Writing Center lists its handout
from A to Z. (Actually, there's nothing listed after W, but who
cares?) The 12-page site has the usual English writing stuff, but
it also has a plethora of other links for academic subjects including
APA, MLA, dictionaries, Chicago Manual of Style, ESL, history,
business writing, music, plagiarism, sports and leisure reference
works, and world wide web site design + much more.
http://www.kyvl.org/html/ref/subwriting.shtml
Kentucky Virtual Library offers links to citation guides
(MLA users need to check out BibBuilder), business and professional
writing, a host of course-specific humanities sites, mathematics
and sciences sites, and social sciences sites.
http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/resources/index.html
George Mason University's Writing Center provides links
to specific course work in public and international affairs, psychology,
biology, nursing, history, and management (accounting,
finance, marketing). Their numerous online handouts and links offer
advice on gracious criticism, creating a poster presentation, effective
presentation for scientists, sample thesis statements,
ESL, passive voice, focus, descriptive detail, paraphrasing, and
documenting sources.
http://academic.reed.edu/writing/disciplines.html
Doyle Online Writing Lab: "Writing in Particular Disciplines."
This site covers writing in many areas: anthropology, art history,
history, humanities, mathematics, music, political science, psychology,
religion, sciences, social sciences, and thesis.
http://writing.richmond.edu/writersweb/
From Richmond University, this site  examines
all of the stages of writing, from how to get started
on a paper, how to write and edit drafts, how to write effective
thesis statements, how to punctuate, to how to document sources.
As Dr. Cheryl Hofstetter-Duffy, FHSU English Department Chair, so
eloquently says, "It doesn't matter how good the cake (content)
is; it won't taste good if you frost it with goose poop (mistakes
in punctuation, citation, and documentation)."
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/index.htm
From the University of Chicago, this site is intended for
first- and second-year students who are writing in the humanities
and social sciences.
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/ Guide
to Writing Research Papers from Capital Community College.
It gives you information on grammar and the writing process.
http://www.powa.org/
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant offers tips concerning the writing
process and information on the different types of essays.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/works_cited
From Duke University you get information on how to
cite in APA, MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, and Turabian formats.
http://canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html
This site from the CanTeach web site lists hundreds of writing prompts
and journal topics.
These links represent only
a few of the available online writing centers. For a more
comprehensive list, try this link for the International
Writing Center Association:
http://writingcenters.org/writers.htm
FHSU's Writing Center cannot guarantee the accuracy
or veracity of the contents found on the link sites.
Summaries of the link sites on this
web site were either composed by Gwen Houston and other
consultants of the FHSU Writing Center,
or are copies of descriptive phrases/sentences found on
various
World Wide Web search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Alta
Vista, etc.
The FHSU faculty does not endorse any of these links.
If you find other sites that are better suited to academic
writing, please let us know.
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