This page contains links to a number of resources helpful to writers. Email Drew M. Loewe if you find additional resources that might be linked to this page.

St. Edward's University Writing Center Handouts (in PDF)

• Advice About Commas
• Revising with a "Reverse Outline"
• Plagiarism: How to Avoid it
• Paraphrasing vs. Quoting
• What are "Scholarly Sources"?
• Overcoming "Writer's Block"
• Effective Email Strategies

University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center Handouts 

These handouts cover a variety of pertinent topics and are useful for all wriiters, not just undergraduates.

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English as a Second Language Resources

• TESL Journal's Self-study Quizzes for ESL students. Try this one first. There are self-correcting exercises on many topics.

• Writing Needs of International Students by Lissa Petersen of the Claremont Graduate University Writing Center.

• Cengage Learning's Supplement to Keys for Writers. Good overview of transfer errors.

• Purdue OWL's ESL Resources, including advice on combining sentences and other strategies.

• Impact! Online, a series of articles for intermediate and advanced students of English

• Learning English on the Web, a service provided by Rongchang Li at the University of Illinois

• American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, a key to "idiomatic words and phrases, slang terms, figures of speech, common proverbs and metaphors" 

• Oxford Collocation Dictionary, showing which words and phrases often "go together" in idiomatic English

• Non-Native Speakers in the English Classroom, from Grammar Alive! A Guide for Teachers

Help with Citation Formats

• MLA Citation Format [on Purdue OWL]
• APA Citation Format [on Purdue OWL]

Grammar and Style Resources

• Eliminate Redundant Phrases
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Handouts
• UT’s Undergraduate Writing Center Handouts
• The Write Place (from St. Cloud University)
• Thomas and Turner's "Classic Style" (a robust, useful general style)

Writing Spaces (Writing Advice from Teachers to Students; free downloads)

• "So You've Got a Writing Assignment. Now What?" by Corrine Hinton
• "The Inspired Writer v. The Real Writer" by Sarah Allen
• "Why Visit Your Campus Writing Center?" by Ben Raforth
• "Annoying Ways People Use Sources" by Kyle Stedman
• "Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: a Guide to Using Sources" by Cynthia Haller
• "How to Read Like a Writer" by Mike Bunn
• Complete Database of Writing Spaces essays

University Libraries

• St. Edward's University Library
• University of Texas Library

Online Writing Centers

Many online writing centers provide handouts and valuable information. Here are some links to a few of them.

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) This site contains a wealth of information for students, instructors and tutors, including over 130 handouts on the details of grammar, punctuation, and style.
• University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center
• Colorado State University Writing Center
• Reed College's Online Writing Lab

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