Online Resources

ACADEMIC WRITING CONVENTIONS

◆  Writing for Success  

"Writing for Success is an open-source text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition."

◆  A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading

"[This open-source book offers] a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction by focusing on reading and writing, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading supports students as they become more reflective, deliberate, and mindful readers and writers by working within a metacognitive framework."

◆  They Say/I Blog 

A companion site to the book They Say/I Say, which is a core text in WRIT 190. Using templates and thinking about logical moves can help you to master academic style. 

◆  Purdue’s Online Writing Lab

General writing, discipline-specific, and ESL-related content

◆  Sheryl Holt’s YouTube Channel

Academic writing video tutorials created by a TESOL specialist 

DOCUMENTING YOUR SOURCES: CITATION & FORMATTING STYLES

◆  Purdue's Online Writing Lab: Research and Citation Styles

VOCABULARY & DICTIONARIES

◆  Merriam-Webster Monolingual Dictionary

◆  Dictionary.com

◆  The Idioms

◆  Online Collocation Dictionary

◆  Manchester Academic Phrasebank

GRAMMAR AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE

◆  English Grammar Guide 

◆  Grammar Troublespots: An Editing Guide for Student Writers. 3rd Ed. 
This book gives a good, quick review of the most frequent errors, and can be found in the reference section of Canaday Library. 

US ACADEMIC CONVENTIONS

◆  Ways to Participate in Class 

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