Helps for Writers
Quick Links to Critical Reading, Writing & Documenting Resources
Compiled by Cherie Dargan
Updated Spring 2005
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Helps for WritersQuick Links to Critical Reading, Writing & Documenting Resources |
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Compiled by Cherie Dargan Updated Spring 2005 |
| How to Mark a book | A short essay by Mortimer Adler about annotating text. (This classic piece was written in 1940, but still makes for a good read!) |
| Punctuation Chart | A quick review of punctuation. |
| Writing a Summary | The Summary packet |
| The Water article | The Water article--used in the Summary Unit |
| New Version -- Writing Basics05 | Newly revised--covers the writing process, purpose, audience, and maps vs. outlines |
| Websites for Writers | A list of websites |
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A quick review of punctuation. |
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A List of links with help for grammar questions |
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Purdue's OWL List of Handouts--from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab |
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"Hey, Cherie--I need help! I gotta write a paper!" |
| Using In-Text Citations -- As your witty Composition teacher commented, "More than all you wanted to know!" (Dargan 32). | |
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More Links for Controversial Issues and Helps writing a research paper |
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Resources on the web for help with Documenting Electronic Sources A collection of links for writers and writing teachers, broken up into categories Graphic organizers, the 5 paragraph theme, how to do an annotated bibliography & more! |
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| The Citation Machine - The web-based tool for creating MLA or APA citations. http://landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php | |
MLA Style Documentation Guidelines for Electronic Sources -- Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey. Available: http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla_z.html |
| http://www.westwords.com/guffey/apa_z.html -- Dr. Guffey's APA Style Documentation website (for nursing, education, business, psychology & sociology students) |
| http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html -- Documentation Styles -- from the Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison. |
| http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html -- ONLINE! This web site addresses how to cite web sources. |
| http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm -- Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: Documentation Guidelines. From Duke University Library. |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html. Purdue University has one of the BEST Online Writing Centers (known as OWLS, by the way). Here is the link for their handouts. |
| Citing Electronic Resources Available at the Hawkeye Community College Library |
Need to find more sources? Go to my Helps for Writers Page for search engines, libraries, and online databases.
Created by Cherie Dargan
Updated January 21, 2005
Email me at: cdargan@hawkeyecollege.edu
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