The "Write Site" For TCNJ Students
Click on the graphics in the lefthand column or the linked text in white to access each link.
The websites referenced are easily accessible through any search engine, and now through the TCNJ OWL.
There's some help to be found right here, at the
on-line home for TCNJ's tutoring center.. Click on
"Tips for Studying and Writing" to explore
some useful study strategies.
Writing the Paper
The Purdue OWL, besides being one of the first websites of its kind, is
renowned as one of the most helpful online resources available to students.
There's a wealth of helpful links here covering topics ranging from academic
writing techniques to basic grammar and mechanics to writing in specific
disciplines.
The Writing Center at Princeton University links
students to universally helpful advice on academic writing; they cover
everything from getting started by
finding a topic to
appeasing "writer's
anxiety".
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
provides a number of "handouts" to walk students through the writing process
step by step. Categories include writing the paper, citation, style and
sentence level concerns, specific writing assignments and writing for
specific fields.
The University of
Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center has an overview of
citation techniques,
as well as explaining the
stages of the writing process
and
ways to improve one's writing style.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign lists general and
genre-specific writing tips alike.
Linked here is a checklist for critical reading from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Reviewing these 12 common errors before handing in a
draft is an easy way to improve the quality of the work.
Some useful revision guidelines and strategies, from
George Mason University. There's also a handy "polishing
and editing checklist" that includes a
number of questions writers can ask themselves while putting the finishing
touches on a composition.
Citing the Paper
Washington State University's site aims to answer the
ever-pressing question of
what "intellectual property" is,
and provides useful ways for students to
spot plagiarism in
their own works.
The Bedford/St. Martin's Guide - in addition to
providing
tips for evaluating sources
and a
list of useful style manuals
- suggests ways to find and document sources from the disciplines of
humanities, social sciences, history, and sciences.
Bedford/St. Martin's also includes some useful model papers (demonstrating proper citations) to peruse, in various disciplines including humanities, business/technical writing, and natural/applied sciences.
Bedford/St. Martin's also includes some useful model papers (demonstrating proper citations) to peruse, in various disciplines including humanities, business/technical writing, and natural/applied sciences.
ESL Resources
Another useful link allows users to
translate phonetic
transcriptions of English into IPA. The
site is great for finding out pronunciations to otherwise unfamiliar words.
Here, the Purdue OWL addresses the
nuts and bolts of American writing
to aid ESL writers in recognizing what instructors look for when assessing
papers in America.
This link, "How
to Improve Your English Writing in 5 Minutes", comes from antimoon.com -
a website that professes to help foreign speakers learn and utilize the
English language more effectively.