• Freewriting Guidelines
• How to shut up the voices in your head
• Instead of voices you need to be a Honey Badger
• Getting Rid of Writer's Block and Writer's Block
• Dealing with School Stress and Anxiety

• Kip Wheeler's Page on Inventing Ideas great list of questions if you don't know where to start writing.
  
• UNC's Writing Center on Brainstorming Ideas
• Powerpoint file on Brainstorming Strategies with examples of different styles
• Free app for iphone for Bubble Brainstorming
• Using mind maps and other kinds of printable Graphic Organizers and more

• The Basics Academic Writing and the myths
• An excellent blog post with juicy tips
  
• The University of Virginia at Richmond's Writing Center  is a good general resource
  
• Another excellent writer's resource is at SUNY College Writing Guide

• Cherri's Essay and Paragraph Format
• Cherri's Essay & Paragraph Template 
• Another basic essay outline. Repeat as many body paragraphs as needed.
• Patterns of organization for essays
• patterns in more detail  & a pdf
  

• Ideas for titles  &  examples of titles
• Capitalization: a helpful app and the rules
  

• How to Write a Thesis Statement
• Thesis sentence templates

• Introductory Paragraphs
• Strategies for Introductions
  
• Writing Introductions
• 13 Ways to Introduce an Essay  (except avoid definitions and questions)
  
• Great hooks from famous novels, and some more
  

• A good overview of what a paragraph is.
• Video overview of what a paragraph is including topic sentences.
  
• Claim, Evidence, Analysis Format
• Basic Paragraph Format
  
• Video on Paragraphing
• Seven Patterns for Paragraphs, pdf
• Patterns for Paragraph,   pdf

• Topic Sentences Video
• Topic Sentences & Signposting
• Topic Sentence & Thesis (literature)

• Writing Conclusions 
• And more on Conclusions
  

Revision Basics

• A few Revision Strategies
• UNC's Handout on How to Revise
• Harvard's Revising The Draft E.B. White Examples
  
• Using a reverse outline, Monmouth University
• Peer Workshop Tips

• Peer Workshop Tips
• UNC's Handout on Proofreading
• 15 Goofy Grammar Errors
• UW's Handbook of Errors
• A Big List of Editing Marks
• Common Word Errors
  
• Shut up about Typos Already!
• Buzzfeed's Style Guide
• Style, Tone, Diction
  

Sentence Construction

• Kinds of Sentences
• Fixing Run-ons, Comma Splice, etc.
  
• Parentheticals and Asides
  
• UW's tips on Clear and Concise Sentences
• UW's handout on Subject/Verb Agreement  
• The Best Sentence I Read This Year

Punctuation, Grammar, and Usage

• Practicing with Sentence Fragments
• Sentence Fragment Exercises
• How and Why to Use Whom
• Handouts on just about everything from ChompChomp
• Exercises on just about everything from ChompChomp
• Grammar Exercises from UVIC.CA
• The ESL Cafe for Students
• Grammar and Language Quizzes
• A Grammar Checker that some students have had luck with

• Why this writer thinks you need to use "I" 
• What is and how do we make Academic Arguments
• Insights on How We Become Better Writers
• How to write short research essays
  
• Avoiding Cliches in Writing
• How to be a Effective Reader
• Why We Read
  
• Conducting a Rhetorical Analysis
• Writing a Persuasive Essay

Writing about Literature

• Patterns for Opening Stories
•  Poetry Explication
  
• UToronto Writing about Literature
• University of Wisconsin Madison's using literary quotations
  
• Roan State Lit Resources
• Literary Analysis
• Best handout on writing a literary analysis ever

• Cherri's Grading and Feedback page
• Being a Successful Student
• Why students should learn to take notes themselves & not rely on teacher slides
• What you miss when you take notes on a laptop
  
• Overview of note-taking strategies video
• One student's note-taking and test prep process
• One student's detailed note-taking advice
• Succeeding at Tests and Studying
• Study Hacks Blog
  
• Cornell Note-taking paper pdf  or word version
  
• No, you cannot multi-task, nor can you text AND listen at the same time. I promise.
• Using Laptops during class lowers your grade
• Find flashcards on any subject
• A quick video about how to feel less cluttered and get things done.
• Grade Percentage Breakdowns
• Professor Pet Peeves
  

Succeeding in College and Beyond

• Giving Effective Presentations, Everything a Presenter Needs to Know about People, and Presentation Tips for Women
  
• A list of Must-Dos for the first week of school and the authors' website, the USA Today's Professor's Guide Blog, with lots of other tips for college student success. Click around on the links that seem most interesting to you. I like the first seven tips on this one about sending professors email.
• The Student Rights and Responsibilities document for American River College
• The Woodland Community College Student Code of Conduct is in the schedule book
• Here are some interesting ideas about college
• Why a resume is a tool for a messy life and not set in stone: the mutable and dynamic resume
• Jenny Blake's Life After College site
• Lin-Manuel Miranda's Commencement Address 2016
  
• Steve Jobs' Commencement Address to Stanford 2005
• JK Rowling's Commencement Address to Harvard 2008, part 1, part 2, part 3
• Best Commencement Addresses
  
• Life Lessons from Comedians

• What we lose when we lose handwriting
• Why we learn more by writing than typing
• Benefits of Writing By Hand
• Why Cursive Makes Us Smarter
• What you miss when you take notes on a laptop

Buying Textbooks

• A great place to check for online text book prices is bigwords. You put in the ISBN and it will search all the online booksellers for the current inventory and sale price.
• You can also check out textbook rentals. This is new, but it's picking up in popularity. 
• Many texts are currently available in online formats as well as Kindle and Nook formats.
• The public and campus libraries have many texts as well.
  

Books for Writers

A great place to find dictionaries and grammar handbooks is Goodwill; the hardback dictionaries are under five bucks an paper backs are two fifty. The Goodwill at Watt and El Camino generally has a decent selection.

• Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
• Write Right! Jan Venolia
• For English Majors:  MLA Handbook 
• Woe is I
• Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tip's for Better Writing

• 750 Words a Day
• Writing Forward 
• The Six-Word Memoir
  
• How to Sign Letters
• About Writing Letters
• What to write in a card or letter
• Things that Happen when you read
  
• Ira Glass on Storytelling
• Elizabeth Gilbert's Ted Talk on the Creative Impulse
  
• Cherri's advice for sending professional emails and Beginner's Guide to email
• UNC's Writing Center is the Bee's Knees of Handouts
  
• Colorado State's Writing page is the Cat's Pajamas
• UW's Writing Handbook
• UV Richmond's Writer's Web 
• CSUS Library Research Guides
• WAC at Marquette
• Writing Guides at Colorado State
• Unv. Toronto WID Booklist