Resources for Writers

Quick Tips

Revision: Close to your deadline? Try these simple hacks for last-minute improvements to your essay.

Reverse Outlining: Follow this quick guide to creating a reverse outline, a fantastic revision tool for improving argument, evidence, and organization.

Paragraphs: Struggling to convey your ideas? Get all the secrets for forging clear, analysis-driven paragraphs.

The Lingo of Composition: Face essay prompts and composition classes with confidence-- this quick guide will walk you through vital key terms for writers.

Critical Reading: Learn strategies for understanding and responding to texts.

Sentence-Level Concerns: Local issues can be tricky. Learn to use commas and semicolons, to avoid run-ons and sentence fragments, and to use other grammatical and syntactical tools.

Additional Resources

Basic Essay Structure: Provides a clear framework for an argumentative essay with focused introduction, analytical body paragraphs, and a conclusion that does more than merely summarize.

Paragraph Structure: Guides students in crafting paragraphs by outlining the essential components: topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence.

Paragraph Flow: Explains the concept of flow in paragraphs, providing strategies to create seamless transitions and logical connections between ideas for readability and coherence.

Thesis Statements: Focuses on the formulation of thesis statements, offering guidance on crafting clear, concise, and arguable claims that anchor and direct the overall argument of a written work.

Introductions: Offers guidance on writing introductions, emphasizing techniques for engaging the reader, providing context, and crafting a clear thesis statement to frame the central argument of the essay or paper.

Conclusions: Imparts essential guidance on crafting conclusions, focusing on summarizing key arguments, synthesizing insights, and providing a compelling closure to an academic paper.

Citations: Provides an overview of the basic guidelines and conventions for the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style, including formatting, in-text citations, and the construction of the Works Cited page.

Quotations: Offers instruction on incorporating quotations into academic writing, detailing techniques for seamless integration, proper attribution, and alignment with the overall argument and style of the text.

Transitions: Focuses on the use of transitions in writing, offering strategies to create logical connections between sentences, paragraphs, and sections.

Combining Sentences: Provides guidance on combining sentences, emphasizing methods to create more complex and nuanced statements through coordination, subordination, and parallelism.

Verbs for Introducing Sources: Offers guidance on using precise verbs to introduce sources, aiding in the clear articulation of the relationship between source material and the writer's argument.

Integrating Sources: Provides instruction on the basics of integrating sources into academic writing, emphasizing techniques for seamless inclusion, proper attribution, and alignment with the overarching argument or analysis.

Writing with AI Text Generators: Outlines the problems and limitations of writing with generators like ChatGPT, provides best practices for addressing these problems, and suggests prompts for generators.

Citing Generative AI in MLA Style: Walks readers through the steps of citing generators like ChatGPT in MLA format.

Punctuation: Rules Gives detailed rules for using commas, colons, ellipses, and more.

Homophones: Learn to distinguish between commonly confused words