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Audience Awareness - Texas A&M University Writing Center
Style, Diction, Tone, and Voice - Wheaton College Writing Center
How Audience and Purpose Affect Focus - Colorado State University Writing Center
Tone, Mood, and Audience - The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Tone in Business Writing - The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
The Rhetorical Situation - The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
The Writing Process
The Writing Process - The University of Lynchburg, Alton L. Wilmer Writing Center
Starting the Writing Process - The OWL at Purdue.
The Writing Process - Walters State Community College Writing Lab
Elements - University of Texas Permian Basin
Grammar and Sentence Structure
Grammar Tips and Tricks - City University of New York - College of Staten Island
Guide to Grammar and Style - Jack Lynch
Grammar: Main Parts of Speech - Walden University Writing Center
Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization - NASA
Subjects and Predicates
Subjects and Predicates - University of Missouri
Identifying Subjects - Georgia Southern University
Grammar Exercises
List of Exercises - University of London
330 Grammar Topics - University of Victoria
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - University of Ottawa
Misplaced Modifiers - Towson University
Dangling Modifiers - Towson University
Sentence Fragments
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Subject-Verb Agreement
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
City University (Washington) Quiz
Faulty Parallel Structure
Parallel Structure (Purdue OWL)
Comma Splices
What is a Comma Splice and How Do I Fix It? Walden University
Comma Splices: Exercise I - D'Youville College.
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
Diagramming Sentences
Diagramming Sentences: A Brief Introduction - Capital Community College.
Diagramming Sentences: A Brief Introduction - PowerPoint. Capital Community College.
Sentence Diagramming - C. O. Burleson.
Diagramming Practice - St. Albans School.
Punctuation
PMS: Punctuation Made Simple - Gary A. Olson, JAC Online
Punctuation - Frances Peck, University of Ottawa
The Paragraph
Paragraphs and Topic Sentences - Indiana University
Writing Paragraphs - University of Ottawa
Exercises in Using English for Academic Purposes - A Guide for International Students. University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, UK
Paragraph Transitions - University of California at Santa Barbara
Thesis Statement - Literary Education Online
Building the Essay Draft - Empire State College
Writing an Argumentative Essay - Bogazici U
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay.
Description and Narration
Writing Descriptions - Purdue OWL
Descriptive Essays - LEO: Literacy Education Online. St. Cloud State University
How to Write a Description - Northern Illinois University English Department
Profiles and Memoirs
On Memoir, Truth and 'Writing Well - Interview with William Zinsser. National Public Radio. April 13, 2006. Excerpt "How to Write a Memoir."
Sixties Personal Narrative Project - University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
This I Believe - National Public Radio
The Personal Essay - Mr. Bauld's English
Process AnalysisProcess Analysis Essay - Kamehameha Schools. Hawaii
Writing A Process Essay - LEO: Literacy Education Online. St. Cloud State University
Illustration and ExampleA Brief Guide to Writing Example Essays - Kimberly Davis. RSCC Online Writing Lab
Using Exemplification in Your Writing - PowerPoint. Prof. Steven Federle Solano College
Definition
The Definition Essay - LEO: Literacy Education Online
Writing Definitions - Purdue OWL
Comparison and Contrast
Types of Papers/Comparison Contrast - RSCC Online
Comparison and Contrast Essays - Literacy Education Online. St. Cloud State University
Classification and DivisionClassification Writing Virtual Classroom: Mt. San Antonio College
Classification Essay - South Texas College. PowerPoint
Cause and Effect.Cause and Effect Paragraph - Technology Studies in Education
Writing Cause and Effect Papers - Butte College Center for Academic Success
Diction, Vocabulary, and Usage
Dictionaries, Vocabulary, Spelling
Your Dictionary.Com - All kinds of dictionaries in many languages
Diction References - Links to Dictionaries, Thesauri and Style manuals
The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words - BusinessWriting.com
Commonly confused Word Pairs
Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs - Alan Cooper's Homonyms
Common Errors in English - Commonly confused words. By Paul Brians
The Heteronym Home Page.Words spelled alike that, when pronounced differently, mean different things..
Idioms
Dictionary of English and Idiomatic Expressions- Using English.com
Etymologies: Word and Phrase Origins
Common Word Roots. Cuesta College
Internet Public Library: Etymology
Proverbs and Sayings
Commonly-Used Proverbs."Over 230 common proverbs sorted alphabetically."
English Proverbs and Humor. UCLA
American English Proverbs. Santa Monica College Reading Lab
Cliches
Cliches. Washington State University.
Jargon, Euphemisms and Doublespeak
Euphemisms. Frankfurt International School
Jargon Watch. Wired Magazine
Weasel Words
Jargon, Weasel Words, and Gobbledygook. California State U Northridge
Language is Funny
Sounds of the World's Animals- University of Texas
Some Humorous Looks at the English Language - Central Washington University
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It - Indiana University: Bloomington
Plagiarism, by Earl Babbie - Social Sciences Research and Instructional Council Teaching Resources Depository
RIT Libraries: Student Resources - Plagiarism—What it is and how to avoid it, with many links
Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers - Robert Harris
Plagiarism. org - Turnitin.com
Plagiarism - Sharon Stoerger
Elementary Logic - The Philosophy Pages.com
Informal Logic - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Clinical Attitude Toward Arguments. Peter Suber. Earlham College
Real-World Reasoning Course-Related Links: Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College. A mega-listing of sites devoted to logic and argument
Ratiional Appeal: Logos. Daniel Kies, College of Du Page
Evaluating Arguments
Arguments and Their Evaluation - T. K. Trelogan, U of Northern Colorado.
Mission Critical: Critical Thinking Web Page: San Jose State U Institute for Teaching and Learning. A "interactive tutorial for critical thinking."
Argument Analysis: Identifying Arguments. Department of Philosophy, The U of Hong Kong.
Finding and Evaluating Statistics
Statistics Resource Finder: Worldwide Statistics. U of Arizona.
Population Reference Bureau and Social Science Data Analysis Network.
Search Systems.Net: Your Public Record Information Network. SearchSystems.Net
Statistics and Demographics. The U of Texas at Austin.
Texas Statistics. Rand.
Trail: Texas Records and Information Locator. Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Rhetoric and Critical Analysis of an Essay
How to Read Essays You Must Analyze:Virginia Tech. Practical Advice.
Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet. StevenHale. Georgia Perimeter College.
A List of Fallacious Arguments.
The Forest of Rhetoric: silva rhetoricae:"This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. . . .This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years)."
Rational Appeal: "Logos translates into 'word' or 'reason.' In rhetoric, logos refers to systems of reasoning." Daniel Kies: College of DuPage.
The Emotional Appeal:"Pathos, also called the pathetic or emotional appeals, persuades audiences by using emotions (Lanham 74)." Daniel Kies: College of DuPage.
Ethical Appeal:"Aristotle defined ethos as the credibility or trustworthiness that the author establishes in his/her writing." Daniel Kies: College of DuPage.
Aristotle's Rhetoric: A Hypertext Resource. Compiled by Lee Honeycutt. Iowa State U.
Color Coded Rhetorical Analysis of Letter from Birmingham Jail. Mary Schultz. DeAnza College.
Research
Organizing Your Research Paper
Organizing Research with Computers. Study Guides and Strategies.
Organizing Research: The Note Card System.Study Guides and Strategies.
Documenting Sources
Using Quotations. Presbyterian College.
Documenting Sources. Diane Hacker.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide. Purdue OWL.
A Research and Reference Guide (MLA).Perspectives in American Literature. Appendix I.
MLA Works Cited Documentation. Studyguide.org.