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Important Documents

• Word/rtf file preformatted in MLA
• How Cherri Comments on Essay
• About Cherri's Editing Marks
• Sample Grading Rubric

Writing Basics

• Freewriting Guidelines
• University of Virginia at Richmond's Writing Center
• The excellent site at the SUNY Writing Guide
• The Vocabulary of College Writing
• Wheeler's Page on Inventing Ideas for Essays
  
• UNC's Writing Center on Brainstorming Ideas
• Powerpoint on Brainstorming Strategies
• Online Bubble Brainstorming
• Making Mind Maps
  
• Other kinds of printable Graphic Organizers and more
  

• Academic Writing Conventions and Joining the Conversation
• The Myths of Academic Writing
  
• How to Write a Thesis Statement
• Writing introductions and conclustions http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/handouts/?q=node/46
• more intros and conclusions, and more
  
• Organizing essays http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/organization.html
• A good overview of what a paragraph is.
• Seven Types of Paragraph Development, pdf version
• Patterns of Paragraph Development pdf and another one
  
• Basic essay outline, repeat as many body paragraphs as needed
  
• Writing Titles for your Work

Revision Basics

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

Editing and Proofreading

• Shut up about Typos Already!
• UNC's Handout on Proofreading
• Why it's hard to edit your own work.
• Kinds of "Errors"
• Every Day Writer's 20 Errors
• 15 Goofy Grammar Errors
• UW's Handbook of Errors
• That Versus Which
• Common Word Errors
  
• Proofreading Marks, and more
  

Topics in Writing for Academic Audiences

• Why this writer thinks you need to use "I" (p.s. I do too.)
• What is and how do we make Academic Arguments
• Insight on How We Become Better Writers
• Avoiding Cliches in Writing
• How to be a Effective Reader
• Almost a Textbook: Academic Writing
• Helpful tips about Academic Tone
• Conducting a Rhetorical Analysis
• Doing a Critical Analysis of a non-fiction text
• Writing a Persuasive Essay

Punctuation

• Go here to learn about punctuation; it's the best primer
• More Punctuation
• Comma Handout from UTexas Austin

Grammar and Usage

• Fragments and Run-on pdf from UTexas Austin
• UW's tips on Clear and Concise Sentences
• UW's handout on Subject/Verb Agreement  
• 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

Writing about Literature

• UToronto Writing about Literature
• UNC Writing About Literature
• University of Wisconsin Madison
  
• Beford/St.Martin Sample of a Literary Analysis.
• Roan State Lit Resources

Other Writing Resources

• Publetariat's Resources
• How to teach writing: teach being interesting
  
• 750 Words a Day and The Artists Way tools
• Writing Forward
  
• Ira Glass on Storytelling
• 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
• UChicago's Writing Center Resources
• UW's Writing Handbook
• UV Richmond's Writer's Web
• GM's Writing in the Genres
  

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and in the Disciplines (WID)

• CSUS Library Research Guides
• WAC at Marquette
• GMU Writing Across the Curriculum
• Ramsey WID research guides
• Unv. Missouri WID Booklist
• Writing Guides at Colorado State
• Unv. Toronto WID Booklist
• Unv. Houston WID Genres
• Unv. North Carolina WID
• Easy Writer Writer's Almanac