Writer's Resources

Drew University Writing Program
On-line Resources for Writers

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STUDENTS: If you found this site by browsing rather than being directed to it by your course instructor, please ask how he or she would like you to organize and present papers before following the advice you find below. These guidelines have been adapted for specific courses (Composition and certain discipline-specific courses) at a specific university (Drew), and your professors may prefer you to use other methods or formats.

Getting Started	More ways to get started	Help: writer's block!
Organizing ideas	Developing a topic into a thesis	Refining a thesis
Writing summaries	Writing syntheses	Writing comparisons
Writing analyses	Writing arguments	Writing definitions
Writing research papers	Writing research proposals	Annotated bibliographies
Conducting research	Researching online (a guide)	Evaluating sources
Making notes	Drafting & refocusing papers	Incorporating sources
Effective Writing	Revising papers using peer responses
Editing and proofreading	More on editing & proof reading	Punctuation and grammar
12 steps to stress-free revision and editing!		Writing in different disciplines
Some Very Useful Resources
Websters On-Line Hypertext Dictionary	Dave's On-Line ESL Cafe	On-line Media Resources (newspapers, magazines, radio)
Purdue On-Line Writing Center	Paradigm On-Line Writing Assistant	Other on-line Writing Centers
Internet Research Starting Points	Metasearch engines	Internet Search Engines
MLA Research paper Guidelines	APA Research paper Guidelines	Columbia on-line citation Guide

The links housed on the Drew University website were written by Sandra Jamieson at Drew University and Rebecca Moore Howard at Syracuse University (with help from Jody Caldwell, Drew University Reference Librarian). Anyone may use these resources under the terms of the creative commons license above. Any feedback would be appreciate, and suggestions for revision or expansionwill be incorporated into the pages where practical and attributed.
This page also includes links to a variety of other sites on the Internet, mostly produced by on-line writing centers (OWLS) and writing programs, and are much better than I could write so I decided to link to them!
Please let me know if you find more to add to this list.

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