| | Wikipedia is a great resource for gathering information. You should use this
site whenever possible since it is factual and up to date.
www.wikipedia.com
Also at your disposal is this array of sites you should visit online:
Writing Links
OWL—The Purdue University Online Writing Lab
This site provides useful advice and exercises to improve your writing. There
are also more than 100 handouts on writing, grammar, spelling, and
punctuation
topics, plus slide shows that will be particularly useful when you are doing
research writing.
The Write Place
This site, created jointly by St. Cloud State University in Minnesota and
Literacy Education Online, provides lots of help on the writing process,
organizing writing projects, writing styles, grammar, punctuation, and
business writing.
Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This is a good place to find tips for writing different types of essays,
responses to literature, and assessment essays. Another part of the site
contains a very helpful Grammar Handbook.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This site provides step-by-step assistance for writing different kinds of
essays plus a large number of interactive exercises.
A Guide to Reading Other Students' Writing Critically
You might find this essay included on the Web site of George Mason
University's Writing Center useful. It is entitled "You Lost Me in the Third
Paragraph: A Guide to Gracious Criticism." It provides a step-by-step process
for reading other students' writing with a critical eye and offers helpful
hints for improving your own writing, too.
These links can be found at www.phschool.com and click on reference links for
silver level.
www.phschool.com
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