LINKS FOR ALL WRITERS

 

Analyze Your Critical Thinking Ability  I like this site because it breaks down what critical thinking is and because it helps us recognize a continuum (in rubric form) of critical thinking acts.

Chat with a live college librarian online who will email you a list of sources Yup, a living librarian delivered immediately to your screen and all you have to do is click.

Colorado State University Writing Center  This site works like an online textbook and covers everything from learning writing processes to advanced researching. Guides, links, tutorials, and acess to advanced online research software.

Diana Hacker's Help with Citing Sources  You can check documentation styles for sources easily and quickly here. Getting familiar with this site can help you learn to cite sources in all of your courses across the curriculum.

Fiction Writers Resource Page  One of the few you can use without having an advice book pitched at you.

Guide to Grammar and Writing  This site is one of the best sites to quickly check the kinds of problems college writers encounter.

Judging Web Quality  This site was produced by the librarians at UCLA and can be very helpful to sharpen your online research skills.

One Look dictionaries There are 2,866,454 words in 576 dictionaries are at your fingertips. This site is not only handy when you aren't close to a dictionary, but it is especially effective when you encounter terms in courses that are specialized to the discipline you are studying.

Poetry Writing Advice  This is a very comprehensive site with plenty of information for practicing poets (no licence needed).

Purdue's OnLine Writing Lab  This site offers a wonderful variety of links to writing sources ford students learning to write in higher education. Use this site for quick and effective instruction.

Quotations  This site simply groups notable quotes by subjects and can be useful if you want to add some "spice" to your writing.

Roget's Thesaurus  This is a quick and easy way to generate synonyms when you are working online.

Teach Yourself about Evaluating Sources  This site collects some of the best online sources about source evaluation and includes some fake sites to see how to practice evaluation of web pages.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style  Janice Walker has wisely configured citation strategies to support a variety of documentation styles.

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White—When writers need a good “talking to” about ways to improve their writing, they read this classic, small book of writing do's and don'ts. Now you can read it online or consult it to check rules of usage, principles of composition, issues of style and form, and to study words and expressions that are commonly misused.