Listed below are links to authoritative websites on the mechanics and process of writing at a graduate school level. Please scroll below to explore these resources, which include APA style guides, help centers for students learning English as a second language, and tips on thesis development.

Comprehensive Sites

• Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) - This is the grandfather site, known by many instructors and students. An extremely useful site for all aspects of the writing process.
• Yale University's Graduate Center Writing Tutorials - A wide range of excellent tutorials.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Writing Center - Another set of excellent of tutorials.

Writing Skills

• Capital Community College Foundation's Online Guide to Grammar - Incredible amount of material with quizzes on very specific topics including word-, sentence-, paragraph-, and essay-level tutorials.
• Caroline and Pearson Brown's English Grammar Lessons - Clear and concise explanations of English grammar. Each lesson ends with interactive quizzes.
• English Page Grammar Tutorials and Lessons - Tutorials and quizzes.
• University of Chicago's Grammar Resources

APA

• King Library's "Citing and Writing" Guide
• Purdue's OWL APA pages
• Vanguard University's APA Style Essentials - APA Style Essentials, written by Douglas Degelman, PhD.
• San José State University

Essay Writing

Process

• Yale's What Good Writers Know
• Harvard's Strategies for Essay Writing

What is an academic essay?

• Yale's Components of a Successful Essay - Adapted from "Elements of the Academic Essay," by Gordon Harvey.
• Harvard's A Brief Guide to the Elements of the Academic Essay [PDF] - By Gordon Harvey.
• Harvard's Overview of the Academic Essay - By Kathy Duffin.
• University of Chicago's A Short Guide to College Writing - By Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney.
• Dartmouth College's Writing the Academic Paper

Understanding the assignment

• Texas A&M University's Understanding Your Writing Assignment - Includes definitions of vocabulary commonly found in writing assignments.
• UNC's Understanding Assignments

Planning and organization

• Amherst College's Getting Started - Great techniques for getting papers started and organized.
• Duke University's Revising and Organizing

Thesis development

• Texas A&M's Thesis Development
• UNC's Thesis Statements

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Research

• Dartmouth's Researching Your Topic - The first section specifically addresses the Dartmouth library, but the rest of the page is relevant for all students.
• Duke's Working with Sources
• King Library's Library Subject Guide

Proofreading

• University of California, Santa Barbara's Common Mistakes in Graduate Writing [PDF]
• UNC's Editing and Proofreading

Analysis and Critical Thinking

• SJSU's Critical Thinking Tutorial

Other Academic Writing

Literature reviews

• UNC's Writing a Literature Review - Covers how a literature review is different from an annotated bibliography.

Annotated bibliographies

• Cornell University's How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• Texas A&M's Annotated Bibliographies

ESL

• Dave's ESL Cafe - Student Help Center created by Dave Sperling. A help forum where students can ask grammar questions or post specific sentences to be corrected. It is moderated by composition teachers and other ESL students. The site is very active and the responses seem accurate.
• Help Forum - English Page's site is another very active help forum.
• Lauri Fried's ESL Links - A wide range of annotated links to quizzes and grammar lessons for ESL students.
• Activities for ESL Students - Advanced grammar quizzes.
• Purdue's OWL ESL Resources

Online Tutors

• SLIS Online Tutoring
• SmartThinking - A fee-based, registration-required online source for one-on-one tutoring.

Publishing Opportunities

LIS Publications Wiki (Library and Information Science) - Want to publish your writing? This wiki gathers information about publications you might want to write for — whether you want to reach your colleagues or your communities.

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