Resources for Writers

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Drafting and Revising

Components of a Text

Types of Assignments

Other Helpful Writing Resources

College of Wooster Academic Integrity Modules

These three modules provide information about academic honesty, citation styles, and plagiarism. Each module concludes with exercises that will help you gauge your understanding of these issues. (Note: you will need to log in and then scroll down to select “Academic Integrity” as the course.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab

This website provides searchable style guides for MLA, APA and Chicago. These guides include instructions for how to cite in each style, as well as style-specific formatting guidelines on paraphrasing, quoting, writing abstracts and paper layout.

Duke University Writing Studio

This website provides searchable style guides for Turabian and CSE. These guides include how to cite in each style, as well as style-specific formatting guidelines on paraphrasing, quoting, writing abstracts and paper layout. Additionally, there is information on how to avoid plagiarism.

The UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center

This website offers handouts on brainstorming, thesis statements, audience, introductions, and conclusions, and tips on revising and proofreading.

The Dartmouth Writing Program

This website gives helpful tips on paper organization and structure.