Resources for Writers

The following documents and websites may be helpful resources for students completing various types of writing assignments:

Getting Started and Organizing

• How to Plan and Write a Paper (U of Maryland)
• Writing Organization Handout.pdf (U of Maryland)
• UW-Madison's Writer's Handbook (writing process, improving style, grammar and punctuation, citing references)
• GMU Writing Center Quickguides

Grammar & Common Writing Errors/Non-Errors

• Grammarly
• Sentence Sense
• Professor Paul Brians' Common Errors in English Usage
• Professor Paul Brians' List of Non-Errors

APA Style - from the American Psychological Association

• Video: What's New in APA Style - Inside the Seventh Edition of the Publication Manual of the APA
• Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of 7th Edition APA Style
• APA 7th Ed Student Paper Setup Guide.pdf
• Basics of APA Style Reference List.docx
• Video: A Step-by-step Guide for APA Style Student Papers
• Video: Citing Works in Text Using Seventh Edition APA Style
• APA Bias Free Language
• APA Style Blog

MLA Style

• The MLA Style Center: Using MLA Format
• The MLA Style Center: Works Cited - A Quick Guide
• The MLA Style Center: Formatting A Research Paper
• MLA Overview and Workshop - Perdue OWL
• MLA Style/Perdue OWL
• Smarthinking Writers Handbook MLA Style.pdf

Chicago Style

• The Chicago Manual of Style

Thesis and Dissertation Writing

• Book - Complete Your Dissertation or Thesis in Two Semesters of Less, 3rd. Edition by Evelyn Ogden
• Book - The Productive Graduate Student Writer: How to Manage Your Time, Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation and Get Published by Jan Allen
• Video - Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students
• The Thesis Wisperer
• Phinished - an online community that offers support, goal setting, and discussion
• Explorations of Style - a blog about academic writing

Career and Business Writing

• Smarthinking_Career_Writers_Handbook.pdf
• Business Correspondence