Writing Tips: Online Resources
Visit the great sites below for interesting and different ways to improve your English writing skills.
Purdue University links. Find helpful handouts at Purdue University’s Online Writing Laboratory.
Other Purdue writing resources include:
- "Writing a Thesis Statement”
- “Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words”
- “Parallel Structure”
- “Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing”
- “Basic Tips for ESL Students: Writing for an American Academic Audience”
Writing papers for Social Science courses (American Psychological Association [APA] style). Click here for a guide to formatting papers for Social Science Courses (for example, Political Science and Psychology). This style manual provides sample papers and formats for writing research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and reference pages.
Writing papers for Liberal Arts and Humanities courses (Modern Language Association [MLA] style). Click here for a guide to formatting papers for Liberal Arts and Humanities courses (for example, English and Philosophy). This style manual gives samples of research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the "Works Cited" pages.
Find useful information about writing papers at Capital College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing.
Writing Summaries. Get good advice about writing summaries at the sites below.
- Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois
- Colorado State Writing Guides
- University of Delaware Writing Center