Getting Started
* Writing Your First College Paper
* Researching
* Determining a Thesis
* Brainstorming
* Developing Ideas

Organizing Ideas
* Paragraphs
* Introductions
* Conclusions

Especially for thesis students

Especially for students
writing in English as a foreign
language

Documentation Formats
* Discipline-Specific Writing Guidelines
* APA, MLA, CBE, etc.
* Citing Internet Sources
* Writing About Research
* Avoiding Plagiarism

     

 Sentence Structure
* Avoiding Wordiness
* Achieving Clarity
* Subordination
* Parallelism
* Transitions
* Fragments
* Run-On Sentences
* Dangling Modifiers

 Punctuation
* Commas
* Semicolons
* Colons
* Quotation Marks
* Dashes vs. Hyphens

Grammar
* Prepositions
* Pronouns
* Who vs. Whom
* Verbs

Diction
* Fascinating Words
* Commonly Misused Words and Phrases
* Simple and Direct Prose
* Non-sexist Language
* Final Proofreading