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Helpful Links for Writing Development

• Interactive Style and Grammer Websites
• Documentation
• Dictionaries

Interactive Style and Grammer Websites

Website: The Learning Center's Online Writing Lab

• Subject -verb agreement
• Pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Clauses

Website: Towson University Online Writing Support

Exercises

• Punctuation (apostrophes, commas, semicolons, quotation marks)
• Sentence structure (avoiding fragments, avoiding comma splices, active-passive voice)
• Usage (irregular verbs, subject-verb agreement, pronouns, verb tense, modifiers)
• Parallelism
• Commonly confused words
• Parts of Speech
• Phrases (Prepositional phrase, gerunds, infinitives)
• Clauses (dependent, adverbial, adjectival, nominal)
• ESL (irregular verbs, tenses, prepositions, idioms)
• Diagnostic tests
• Plagiarism information
• Capitalization
• Abbreviations

Website: The Internet TESL Journal: Activities for ESL Students

• Articles
• Conjunctions
• Prepositions
• Sentence structure
• Tag questions
• Verbs
• Word choice
• Pronouns
• Subject-verb agreement

Website: English Page

• Free online English lessons and ESL / EFL resources

Website: Purdue Online Writing Lab

• Interactive Website: grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, sentence style, paraphrasing and writing numbers

Website: UW-Madison Writer's Handbook

• Grammar and Punctuation: dashes, commas, semicolons, coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and subject-verb agreement
• Information on Common Writing Assignments: literary papers, proposals, research papers, reviews, and scientific reports)
• Citations: MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, quoting and paraphrasing sources, and numbering references
• Stages of Writing: reading material to review, creating a thesis statement, and proofreading

Website: Stanford University "The Top Twenty: A Quick Guide to Troubleshooting your Writing"

• Word choice
• Commas
• Vague pronoun reference
• Spelling (homonyms)
• Quotations
• Capitalization
• Sentence fragments

Website: UNC at Chapel Hill Writing Center

• Citations
• Writing the paper: flow, paragraph development, transitions, and thesis.
• Style
• Tips on Writing for Specific Fields: business, research, science, etc.

Website: Grammar Now!

After clicking the link, click on "Grammar & Writing Resources" on the top tab

• ML and APA Citations
• Grammar: guide to grammar and writing, English grammar rules, modern English grammar and prepositions
• Writing: Eleven rules to writing, Top 50 proofreading tips and writing a research paper

Website: The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

• Confusing words
• Punctuation rules

Website: St. Norbert College Writing Center

• Writing Process Handout: thesis, introduction, topic sentences, transitions, quotes and conclusion

Website: Chomp, Chomp, Grammar Bytes!

• Grammar: commas, lie vs. lay, irregular verbs, fragments, comma splices, etc.

Documentation

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Website: Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

• Proper MLA citations: works cited page, in text citation, endnotes and footnotes, sample papers with proper citations and formatting

Website: Purdue Online Writing Lab: APA Formatting and Style Guide

• Proper APA citations: works cited page, in text citation, endnotes and footnotes, sample papers with proper citations and formatting

Website: Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers

• Plagiarism exercises: identifying when something was plagiarized vs. paraphrased

Website: Easy Bib

• Free bibliography maker for MLA, APA & Chicago style citations

Website: Online Writing Lab: American Sociological Association (ASA)

• Proper ASA citations: in-text, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting and reference page

Website: Research and Documentation Online: Council of Science Editors (CSE)

• Proper CSE citations: in-text, reference list and manuscript format

Dictionaries

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Website: Oxford English Dictionary

• Online Dictionary

Website: Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus Online

• Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Medical and Spanish-English