Web Links for Writers

Categories
GCC Writers' Resources: On-Campus Help, Library Resources, Guide to Composition, Sample Essays,
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

Also view our Literature Web

GCC Writers' Resources

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

GCC Library Resources
Citation Guides
Research Guides
Student Services and Info

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

Source-Based Writing

Research Paper Writing Guides
Guide for Writing Research Papers (MLA)
Guide for Writing Research Papers (APA)
How to Do Research in the Library
Information Competence Tutorials from Cal State
The Bedford Research Room
Research Guide for Students
Research Navigator
The Seven Steps of the Research 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

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
Evaluating Web Pages

Evaluating Internet Sources
Evaluating Sources of Information
Evaluating Web Sites
Evaluation Central
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)
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
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 English and the Humanities)
GCC English Department's
MLA Documentation Guidelines for Research

2009 MLA Guide from Purdue OWL
Documenting Sources (Diana Hacker)
Guide for Writing Research Papers (MLA)
Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
MLA Citation Formats (pdf) - Books, Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
MLA Citation Formats (pdf) - Electronic (OPAC, CD-ROM, Internet/WWW)
MLA Citation Formats (pdf) - Literary Criticism, Controversial Issues resources
MLA Style Crib Sheet

CMS
Chicago Style Manual or Turabian (used in History)
Chicago Style: History
Documentation: Chicago Style

APA
American Psychological Association
(used in Psychology and the Social Sciences)
APA Style.org
APA Style Lite for College Papers 6th Edition
American Psychological Association (APA) - Homepage of the APA; style for e-resources
Nova University APA Style tutorial
Social Sciences: Documenting Sources - by Diana Hacker
APA Formatting and Style Guide - from the OWL at Purdue University
Annotated Bibliographies in APA, MLA, & CMS - from the OWL at Purdue University
Electronic References - official APA page covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media.
Research Style Crib Sheet - concise guide includes examples of print and electronic sources.
ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources - citing internet sources in APA

CSE
Council of Science Editors (used in the Sciences)
Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Guide
CSE Quick Citation Guide
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Science: Documenting Sources (Diana Hacker)

Digital Citation Tools
BibBuilder
BibMe
Citation Machine
Cite This For Me
EasyBib
KnightCite

Research and Documentation Online
Bedford St. Martin's links to the four style guides
Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Essay Writing

How to Write an Essay
Academic Essay-Writing
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Essay Punch
Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay
Thesis Builder and Online Outliner
Writing Den Essays
Writing Exam 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: Published essays from the NYTimes
Hewitt, John: How to Create Fictional Characters
Lincoln, Abraham: Abraham Lincoln Online
Murphy, Cullen: The Atlantic Monthly's Web site

PBS NewsHour Essays Archive

Writing Formats

Fiction Writing
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

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

Poetry
Academy of American Poets
Literature Web: Poetry

Writer's Resources

General Writer's Resources
Infinite Ink
Internet Resources - Writing Links
Novelists, Inc
Paradigm Online
Web English Teacher
Word Wizard
World of Writing
Writer's Center
Writer's Lifeline, Inc
Writing World

Reference Tools
Bartleby.com References
Britannica.com
Cambridge Dictionaries
Currency Converter
HyperDictionary
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
My Virtual Reference Desk
Rhetorical Terms
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus
Your Dictionary.com

Mechanics, Grammar, Style
Basic Elements of English: An Interactive Guide to Grammar
English Grammar
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
The Tongue, Untied

Online Writing Centers
George Mason Writing Center
MIT's Online Writing Center
MTU's Writing Center
Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
SLCC Online Writing Center
The Online Writing Center (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Trinity College Writing Center
Univ. of North Carolina Writing Center

Richmond Writing Center
Univ. of Wisconsin Writing Center

Language

Linguistics
Ethnologue
Human-Languages Page
Speech Accent Archive
Vocabula Review

Rhetoric
American Rhetoric
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms

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

E-zines & Lists of E-zines
Bohemian Ink
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
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)

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

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.)

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: 1/1/2012