Bookmarks for the Writing Process

Not Helpful (Not on-line-center, or describes conference)

Beginner's FAQ

http://www.inkspot.com/craft/beginnersfaq.html

The Rensselaer Writing Center Handout--links to the handouts

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/handouts.html The pertinant handouts from this page are copied.

Asian American Writers' Workshop OnLine

This is just talking about a workshop. It doesn't seem helpful.

EUSJA's Resources for science writers

http://www.esf.c-strasbourg.fr/eusja/index.htm This is a link page for resources for wannabe professional scientific writers. It may not be very helpful.

Pre-writing

Research

Using Statistics--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/87.html

Searching the World Wide Web--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/files/128.html

The Rensselaer Writing Center: On-line Dictionaries

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/online.html Another set of reference dictionaries.(includes a multilingual) Also has other references like 800#'s and Postal abbrev. and Subway Traveler info.

Books On-line: Call Numbers / Subjects

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booksubjects.html

The On-Line Books Page

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Ready, set.....go! Starting Electronic Researching

http://www.en.utexas.edu/researchpoints/ This is a link page that describes how to start researching on the web.

All-in-One Search Page

http://www.albany.net/allinone/ To help you start looking stuff up.

All-in-One Desk Reference

http://www.albany.net/allinone/all1desk.html#DeskRef This lets you get phone #'s, zip codes, quotes, everything.

Sources--links for writers web

Sources--links for writers web

Introduction to Using Sources

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/source.html

Student Guide to WWW Research

http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/

Using Sources Creatively

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/creatsrc.htm

Effective Quotations

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/dq.html

Incorporating Quotations

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/introquo.html

Using Paraphrases

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/paraphrs.html

Sources: Past Tense? Present?

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/litpres.html

LEO: Assessing the credibility of online sources

http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/research/credibility1.html This handout describes things to think about in assessing on-line sources.

Project Bartleby Archive

This is a keyword quote search. It has Bartlett's but appears to have other sources, too.

Reference Desk

This is a reference for science writers and includes things like links to chemistry dictionaries. It has references for many different branches of science.

Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk

http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html This site is amazing!! It has every reference manual you could think of. Maps, Language translation, Computers, you name it. Any fact you might want to find.

The On-Line Books Page

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html This site has free and priced on line books.

Using Interviews in a Writing Project

http://www-uwt.u.washington.edu/uwt/writing/handouts/intervw.htm This handout brings up interview issues.

Thinking

Writing Research Papers: A Step-by-Step Procedure--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/94.html

Creating an argument--links for writers web

Persuasive, Rational Argumentation in Writing

Creating an argument--links

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#argue This gets you to the argument links on the writers' web.

ANALYZING YOUR TOPIC

http://www-english.tamu.edu/wcenter/invention.html A handout for starting your paper.

Developing an Argument

http://webware.princeton.edu/Writing/wc4d.htm This is a handout for organizing your thoughts and your paper.

Writers' Block --brainstormed ideas to fix it.

http://www.inkspot.com/poll/poll1results.html This is a bunch of ideas from authors. In pretty random order. Mostly for fiction, but not all.

Getting your writing started (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/invention.wm.txt.html

Generating ideas--links for writers web

Generating a paper--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#gen

Prewriting: Cubing

Pre-writing: Clustering

Pre-writing: Keeping a Journal

Brainstorming

Where to Start a Paper

Getting Started--freewriting and mapping

http://webware.princeton.edu/Writing/wc4a.htm This handout has some links to other pre-writing sites. Mostly talks about freewriting and mapping as question-formulating techniques.

Brainstorming (Gopher)

gopher://gopher.utexas.edu:3003/00/pub/uwc/Handouts/brainsto.txt Brainstorming a paper topic --handout.

LEO Developing an Introduction: The Top-Down Model

http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/acadwrite/intro.html This page has general info. about intro paragraph structure with a couple links to thesis and thesis statement

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Discovery

http://www.spaceland.org/paradigm/whtfrms.htm A long but apparently helpful handout about figuring out your paper topic.(Includes, but I don't think limited to,freewriting and mapping) Exercises to try as well as information.

Paper Structure

Developing an Outline--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/63.html

Sample Outline--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/64.html

Building Paragraphs (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/paragraphs.txt

Developing an Outline (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-outline.txt

Comparison--Contrast (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-comp.wm.txt

Definitional Techniques (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/definition.html

Critiques (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/critique.html

Abstracts

Narration (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-narration.wm.txt

Description (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-description.wm.txt

Cause and Effect (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-cause.wm.txt

Definition (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-definition.wm.txt

Process (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/org-process.wm.txt

Publication

Inkspot: Writing-related resources, newsletter for writers

http://www.inkspot.com/ This seems to only be helpful for authors except for the publishing part (maybe) but I'll bet there are other sources which are more helpful for that.

(Foreign Language)DICTIONARIES ON THE INTERNET

http://www.hiway.co.uk/~ei/dict.html

Translations--For a Fee--English Institute

http://www.hiway.co.uk/~ei/translat.html

Welcome to Aspiring Writer

http://www.connet80.com/~aspire/New_aspire/index.html This site is a magazine in which you can submit your work to be published, but it appears to deal mostly with fiction.

Revision/Editing

sources

MLA Format: Giving Credit To Sources--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/33.html

Using APA Format--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/34.html

Formatting in Sociology--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/60.html

Citing Electronic Sources--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/110.html

Documentation--links for writers web

Documentation--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#document

MLA Documentation

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/mladocu.html

APA Documentation

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/apadocu.html

Turabian

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/tura.html

Sample Bibliographies

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/biblio.htm

Walker/ACW Style Sheet

http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html

Sources: Past Tense? Present?

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/litpres.html

editing

Writing with Gender-Fair Language

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/gender.html This is one of the links on ?that I just bookmarked, but this is also a fairly succinct reference on this subject.

Transition and Coherence (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/transition.wm.txt

Transitional Words and Phrases (wuacc)

http://www.wuacc.edu/services/zzcwwctr/trans-words.wm.txt

The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP

http://members.aol.com/writewkshp/index.html This is a pretty hard core editing group which requires active participation or you get dropped. It's for people interested in publishing. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction or novels.

Focusing and connecting ideas--links for writers web

Focusing and connecting ideas--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#focus

Glossing

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/glossing.html

Transitional Words and Phrases

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/trans1.html

Using Transitions

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/trans2.html

Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/parstruc.htm

Subordinating Ideas

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/subidea.html

Making Sentences Clear and Concise

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/concise.htm

Adding Action and Clarity to Writing

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/clarity.htm

Suggestions for Revising Prose (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/revise.html

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Editing

http://www.spaceland.org/paradigm/editfrms.htm A thorough explanation of editing. Includes links to more specific areas. Has lots of grammar info. some exercises. Spelling, etc.

Revision

http://webware.princeton.edu/Writing/wc4e.htm A handout.

Suggestions for Revising Prose

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/revise.html This is a handout.

trinity college--revising questions handout

http://www.trincoll.edu/~writcent/reveditq.html This is a handout of questions to get you thinking revising issues.

Peer Editing Guide

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/peeredit.html

Editing--links for the writers web

Editing--links for the writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#edit

Signs of a Rushed Paper

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/rushed.html

Checklist for a Final Edit

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/finaled.htm This handout has links to grammar sites.

Editing for style--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#style

Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/gender.html

Commonly Confused Words

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/conford.htm

Avoiding Cliches in Writing

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/cliche.html

Confusing Pronouns

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/pronoun.htm

grammar

Punctuation--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/16.html

General Punctuation--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/17.html

Quotation Marks--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/14.html

Quotation Marks--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/15.html

Chapter 3. Punctuation

http://sti.larc.nasa.gov/html/Chapt3/Chapt3-TOC.html

Chapter 4. Capitalization

http://sti.larc.nasa.gov/html/Chapt4/Chapt4_TOC.html

The Right Word:repeat/iterate/reiterate/recur/recapitulate

http://www.eeicom.com/eye/repeat.html A picky, picky article, but potentially helpful to someone with incredibly precise grammar.

Usage Experts Change Their Minds, Too

http://www.eeicom.com/eye/usage.html A picky, picky article, but potentially helpful to someone with incredibly precise grammar.

The Right Word: specialty/speciality

http://www.eeicom.com/eye/special.html This is one of those really picky picky "perfect" grammar articles, but I guess it could be helpful to someone if you had to differentiate special(i)ties.

AN ELEMENTARY GRAMMAR

http://www.hiway.co.uk/~ei/intro.html This is a link page to a whole lot of handouts on Grammar. Despite being called "elementary" it's a pretty complex way of looking at things, I think.

Grammar and Style Notes

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html

Basic Prose Style and Mechanics--links to handouts (Rensselaer)

Basic Prose Style and Mechanics--links to handouts

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/proseman.html

1. Write in the Active voice

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html

2. Avoid Nominalizations

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#2

3. Express Parallel Ideas in Parallel Grammatical form

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#3

4. At the end, EMPHASIS!

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#4

5. Express statements in positive form.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#5

6. You should vary sentence patterns

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#6

7. Choose your words carelessly, I mean, carefully

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#7

8. Avoid overusing modifiers.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#8

9. Clarify the logical relationship between ideas.

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#9

10. Prune Dead Wood

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#10

11. Avoid Redundancy

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#11

12. Use Metaphor to Illustrate

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose1.html#12

Forming Plurals of Greek- and Latin-Derived Nouns (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/greek.html

NWU Online Resources for Writers - Language, Spelling, Grammar, and Style

http://www.nwu.org/nwu/links/lnklang.htm

Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Structure Handouts--links for writers web

Capitalization

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/capital.htm

Abbreviations

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/abbrev.htm

Structure handouts--links

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#structure This bookmark gets you to all the structure handout links.

Sentence Fragments

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/fragment.html

Making Subjects & Verbs Agree

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/svagree.html

Pronoun/Noun Agreement

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/npagree.html

Punctuation--links for writers web

punctuation--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#punct

Other Punctuation Marks

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/punctmrk.html

Using Quotation Marks

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/quotemrk.html

Using Semicolons

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/semicoln.html

Commas

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/comma.html

Rensselaer Grammar Handouts

12. Quotation Marks (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#12

13. Punctuation (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#13

14. Introducing Indented Quotations, Vertical Lists, and Formulas

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#14

15. Punctuating Vertical Lists (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#15

16. Question Marks (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#16

17. Exclamation Points (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#17

18. Multiple Punctuation (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#18

Grammar Handout (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html

1. Commas (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#1

2. Semicolon (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#2

3. Colon (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#3

4. Dash (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#4

6. Ellipses Dots (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#5

7. Hyphen (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#7

8. Apostrophe (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#8

9. Italics (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#9

10. Titles (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#10

11. Numbers (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/prose2.html#11

Overview of English Article Usage (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/esl.html

Writing

Practice Exercises in Paraphrasing--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/30E.html

Practice In Paraphrasing -- Sample solutions to exercises--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/30A.html

Differences in Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summary--(Purdue)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Files/31.html

Threads of Thought: Thesis Development in Analytical Writing (Rensselaer)

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/text/thesis.html

Drafting and Organizing--links for writers web

Writing Effective Paragraphs

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/paragrph.html

Writing Conclusions

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/conclude.htm

Writing an Analytic Research Paper

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/rsrchppr.htm

Organizing a Multiple-Subject Paper

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/organize.htm

Thesis Statements

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/thesis.html

Writing in Biology

http://www.richmond.edu/~eng376/project/biology/biology.html

Drafting and Organizing--links for writers web

http://www.urich.edu/~writing/wweb.html#draft

LEO Thesis Statement

http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/acadwrite/thesistatement.html This is a handout about thesis statement only.

Strategies for Writing a Conclusion

http://leo.stcloud.msus.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html This is a handout. It is pretty clear and has examples.

writing centers

NWCA Writing Centers Online

http://www2.colgate.edu/diw/NWCAOWLS.html The Michigan writing center says this is an alphabetical listing of all the writing centers on the net. It does seem like a lot of them.

The Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/handouts.html this has links to handouts for various writing problems (esp. technical) as well as some references like "plurals of Greek and Latin-derived nouns" and writing with gender-fair language.

The RPI Writing Center: On-line Writing Centers and Other Resources

Writing Centers on the Web

Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ This seems like a really good writing center, includes being able to e-mail your paper in for tutoring.

The University of Michigan OWL

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/OWL/owl.html This site has e-mail paper tutoring, too.

Other writing centers

this is a page with links to other centers which I haven't looked at yet.

Metacrawler query: writing centers