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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.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://writing.richmond.edu/writer/index.html From Richmond University, this site bookexamines 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.

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.

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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