Composition Help:
Writing Advice from the Web
(Last Update, Dec, 2003)

Writing & Research Center

Drop-in for consultation, advice, help, kind words,
sympathy, a pat on the back... on your writing projects
Murdock 206
Hours for Spring, 2004:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday: 4:30 to 6:30 pm


Resources at MassCollege
  1. Style Checklist - Mass College Philosophy Department

  1. Sentence Fragments
  2. Passive Voice Constructions
  3. Dangling Modifiers
  4. Expletive Constructions
  5. Bloated or Meandering Paragraphs
  6. Agreement between Nouns and Pronouns
  7. Using 2nd Person Address
Tune in again for further additions.....


Resources Elsewhere
  1. The University of Victoria Writer's Guide

  2. The Writing Process . . Writer's Web, Univ. of Richmond
  3. Handouts for Better Writing . . Writing Center, RPI

  4. Grammar and Style Guides for Writers..Inkspot
  5. The Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab
  6. Trinity College Writing Center, Hartford, CT
  7. Undergraduate Writing Center..University of Texas
  8. Style Notes from Jack Lynch . . Rutgers
  9. Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors . . Jack Lynch, Rutgers
  10. The Malaspina College Writing Tutor..Malaspina Univ College, Canada
Check back here for additions.....

Handbooks and Published Rhetorics
  1. Strunk and White, Manual of Style ..the Original 1918 version...most of it still quite valid

  2. Allyn and Bacon (publishers) writing site
Using MLA Citation Style
  1. MLA Citation Guide ..Capital-Community Technical College, Hartford, CT
  2. Purdue University's MLA Guide
  3. Columbia Guide to Online Style
Using APA Citation Style
  1. APA Citation Guide ..Capital-Community Technical College, Hartford, CT
  2. Citation format from the APA (American Psychological Association)
Citing sources from the Internet
  1. MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources ..Janice Walker, Univ. of S. Florida...the chief authority
  2. Citation Style for Internet Sources..Mark Wainwright, Pomona...an alternate p.o.v. -->
  3. Citation Guides for Electronic Documents ..Federation of Library Assoc.

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