Writers' Resources

GCC Writers' Resources: On-Campus Help, Library Resources, Guide to Composition, Sample Essays, Literature Web
Source-Based Writing: Writing Guides, Finding Topics and Sources, Plagiarism, Copyright, Evaluating Sources
Documentation Guides: All Styles
Essay Writing: How to Write an Essay, Sample Essays, Published Essays

Writing Formats: Essay Writing, Fiction Writing, Poetry, Technical Writing
Writer's Resources: General Resources, Reference Tools, Online Writing Centers, Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
Language: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Words and Word Games
Magazines, EZines, Journals
Magazines, Ezines, Professional Journals
Video and Media Resources

GCC Writers' Resources

On-Campus Help
Writing Center
Electronic Writing Center
Center for Learning
On-Campus Computer Use

GCC Library Resources
Research Assistance
Citation Formats
Research Guides
Literature Criticism FullText Resources

GCC's Guide to Composition
Departmental Policies and Procedures
Course Descriptions
Library Information
Evaluation of Compositions

Source-Based Writing

Research Paper Writing Guides
CSU Information Competence Tutorials
Guide for Writing Research Papers (MLA)
Guide for Writing Research Papers (APA)
How to Do Research in the Library
The Bedford Research Room
Research Guide for Students
Steps in the Research & Writing Process
Writing a Research Paper (Purdue OWL Workshop)

Finding Topics & Sources
Argumentative Essay Topics
Finding Information on the Internet
High Beam Research
Infomine
Internet Public Library
IPL Ready Reference Collection
Librarians Internet Index
Searching the WWW
Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
WWW Virtual Library
Online Reference Resources (Yale Univ. Library)

Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary
Quotation, Paraphrase, Summary
Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Criteria for Evaluation of WWW Sources
Evaluation Criteria
CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation
Evaluating Web Pages
Evaluating Web Pages for Relevance

Evaluating Internet Sources
Evaluating Sources of Information
Evaluating Web Sites
Evaluation of Web Sites
Evaluation Central
Critical Thinking in an Online World
Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals a tutorial
Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources

Plagiarism
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: WPA
You Quote It, You Note It (tutorial)
Statement on Best Practices (.pdf)
How Not to Plagiarize
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

Copyright Information
Copyright: an Overview
Copyright Basics
Copyright Website
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright Management Center
Digital Future Coalition
General Information about Copyrights
Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations
US Copyright Office

Documentation Guides - All Styles

MLA
Modern Language Association
(used in the Humanities)
GCC English Department's
MLA Documentation Guidelines for Research
Citing Electronic Sources in MLA Style
Citing Government Publications (MLA Style)
Columbia Guide to Online Style
Guide for Writing Research Papers (MLA)
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers

CBE
Council of Biology Editors
(used in the Sciences)
(CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
CBE Documentation
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Science: Documenting Sources

APA
American Psychological Association
(used in the Social Sciences)
APA Style Guide
APA Style.org
Columbia Guide to Online Style
Electronic Reference Formats (APA)
Social Sciences: Documenting Sources
Using APA Style

CMS
Chicago Style Manual or Turabian
(used in History)
Chicago Manual of Style Documentation
Hunter College Writing Center's Chicago Manual of Style Documentation
Chicago Style: History
Documentation: Chicago Style
University of Chicago/Turabian Style

Digital Citation Tools
BibBuilder
Citation Builder
Citation Machine
EasyBib
Noodle Tools

Research and Documentation Online
Bedford St. Martin's links to the four style guides
Style Manuals and Guides on the Web
University of Memphis

Essay Writing

How to Write an Essay
Academic Essay-Writing
Basic Guide to Writing Essays
Essay and Journal Writing
Essay Writing Guide
Essay Punch
On Essays: Literature's Most Misunderstood Form
Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay
Thesis Builder and Online Outliner
Writing Den Essays
Writing Exam Essays
Writing Personal Essays

The Argumentative Essay
Argumentation on the WWW
Writing Argumentative Essays from Paradigm Online
Logic in Argumentative Writing

Sample Student Essays
Evaluation of English 101 Compositions
A essay for ENG 101
B essay for ENG 101
C essay for ENG 101
D essay for ENG 101
F essay for ENG 101
Types of Essays and Student Samples from Roane State Community College

Revision
Sentence Level Revising

Published Essays by...

Angelou, Maya: Living Well. Living Good.
Clemens, Samuel L.: What is Man? and Other Essays of Mark Twain; How to Tell a Story
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Writings
Gleick, James: Faster: the Acceleration of Just About Everything (chapters & excerpts)
Hewitt, John: Creating Memorable Characters
Lincoln, Abraham: Abraham Lincoln Online
Online Newshour: Essays and Dialogues
Murphy, Cullen: The Atlantic Monthly's Web site
Rodriguez, Richard: NewsHour essays on American life

Writing Formats

Fiction Writing
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Technical Writing
Society for Technical Communication
The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors

Poetry
Academy of American Poets
Literature Web: Poetry

Writer's Resources

General Writer's Resources
Electric Eclectic
Infinite Ink
Inkygirl
Internet Resources - Writing Links
Networked Writing and Research Online Handbook
Novelists, IInc
Paradigm Online
Web English Teacher
Word Wizard
World of Writing
Write Page
Writer's Center
Writer's Lifeline, Inc
Writer's Resource Center
Writing Advice
Writing World

Reference Tools
American Heritage® Dictionary
Bartlett's Quotations
Britannica.com
Cambridge Dictionaries
Currency Converter
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
My Virtual Reference Desk
Rhetorical Terms
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus
Virtual Reference Sites
Your Dictionary.com

Mechanics, Grammar, Style
Fog Index
Good Grammar, Good Style
Guide to Grammar and Style
Guide to Grammar and Writing
LEO: Literacy Education Online
Modern English Grammar
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Quia
Rensselaer Writing Center Handouts

Online Writing Centers
International Writing Center's Association
Dakota State OWL
George Mason Writing Center
KU Writing Center
MIT's Online Writing Center
MTU's Writing Center
Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
SLCC Online Writing Center
The Online Writing Center
The Online Writery
trAce Online Writing Center
Trinity College Writing Center
Tutor Match
Univ. of North Carolina Writing Center
Univ. of Richmond Writing Center
Univ. of Wisconsin Writing Center
Writer's Workshop

Language

Linguistics
Ethnologue
Human-Languages Page
Linguist
Speech Accent Archive
Vocabula Review

Rhetoric
American Rhetoric
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
Rhetoric and Composition

Words and Word Games
American Slanguages
Eggcorn Database
Luciferous Logolepsy
OneWord.com
Richard Lederer's Verbivore
Word Game of the Day

Magazines, E-Zines & Journals for Writers

Magazines
Alsop Review
Atlantic, Unbound
Alt-X
Awakened Woman
Cortland Review
Glimmer Train
InterText
Poets & Writers
Salon
The Onion
UTNE Reader
Writer's Block
WritersMonthly.com
Sites for Writers

E-zines & Lists of E-zines
Bohemian Ink
John Labovitz's List of E-zines
The Book of Zines

Poetry E-zines
The Drunken Boat
Perihelion
Poets on the Line
Riding the Meridian

Professional Journals (Writing)
Academic Writing
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
:// English Matters
JAC Online
Kairos
Language and Learning across the Disciplines
PEN
RhetNet

Professional Journals (Education)
Chronicle of Higher Education
American School Board Journal
ASCD Education Bulletin
Classroom Leadership Online
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Educational Leadership
Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism & Practice
Journal of Statistics Education Archives
Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation

Full-Text Education Journals Online
(57 at last count)

Video and Media Resources

Videos
(login with eGCC username/password)

Food Pyramid
No Place to Hide
Liberty and Security
Notetaking
Optimizing Different Learning Styles
Reading Improvement
Strategic Learning
Stress Management
Time Management

Across the Drafts- Students and Teachers Talk about Feedback (requires RealPlayer)

Atrocious Apostrophes

A Painful Glimpse into My Writing Process (in Less than 60 Seconds) (Right click on the link and select Save Target As. Save to your desktop and open with QuickTime.)

Shaped by Writing (Large file of 21.6 MB. Right click on the link and select Save Target As. Save to your desktop and open with QuickTime.)

Getting Started: Analytical Writing in the Humanities

Multimedia Collections
Media Library from PEN
World Voices Audio and Photo Gallery
NPR's This I Believe Essays
Audio Essays

Podcasts
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

The Writing Show: Where writing is always the story
Podcasts run anywhere between 9 and 55 minutes, and they appear weekly. However, all of the back podcasts are available. If you have an ipod or an MP3 player and subscribe to a podcasting service, you can just subscribe to this show. (It's free.) Then every time a new show is published, it will be downloaded automatically to your desktop or device when you dock it.

NPR's StoryCorps

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Last modified: 2/28/2008