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Resources for Writers
EIU Writes Blog
EIU Writes, a Site for Discussion about WritingGeneral Resources
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL)Companion Web Site for Easy Writer by Andrea Lunsford
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
Important Points About Revision (Literally Re-Seeing)
Tips on Editing and Proofreading
Guidelines for Reading Out Loud When Alone (pdf)
Level Up Your Paper - Revision and Editing (pdf)
Generating Ideas
Curing Writer's Block (pdf)Freewriting Exercises (pdf)
20 Questions for the Research Writer (pdf)
Cubing (pdf)
Idea Mapping (pdf)
Working With Working Outlines (pdf)
Ten Writing Exercises for the Creative Writer (pdf)
Working With Sources
How to Conduct Research for an Academic Paper (pdf)Important Points about Using Sources - APA Style (pdf)
Important Points about Using Sources - MLA Style (pdf)
Purdue OWL’s “MLA Formatting and Style Guide"
Purdue OWL's "APA Formatting and Style Guide"
Purdue OWL’s “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing”
"Necessities in Academics: An Educational Guide to Citation Styles"
"Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask" from UC Berkeley
"Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy: Crafting and Evaluating Web Sites" from Duke University
“Research and Documentation” from DianaHacker.com
Grammar & Style
Punctuation Pattern Sheet (pdf)The Almighty and Useful Comma (pdf)
Tips on Revising, Editing, and Proofreading with Exercises (pdf)
Correcting Dependent Clause Fragments (pdf)
Transitions (pdf)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
The Columbia Guide to Standard American Usage by Kenneth G. Wilson
The American Heritage Book of English Usage
Purdue OWL's "Conciseness: Methods of Eliminating Wordiness"
"Revising Prose" from Rensselaer Writing Center
Style Guides
Modern Language Association (MLA)Chicago Manual Style (CMS)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Associated Press (AP)
For ESL Writers
Dave's ESL CafePurdue OWL Materials for ESL Writers
