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Links for Writers

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Advanced Writing

  • Prewriting questions for book, movie, or play reviews
  • Reading and writing about poetry
  • Writing an abstract

Avoiding Plagiarism

  • Links to handouts on conducting research and citing properly
  • Avoiding plagiarism (This page includes examples in writing essays and computer programs.)
  • Using MLA style

Business Writing

  • Business writing

English as a Second Language (ESL)

  • Common errors in English
  • ESL links

Getting Started

  • Getting started, prewriting (Click on "writing process.")

Grammar and Punctuation

  • Common grammatical errors and how to fix them
  • Common punctuation errors and how to fix them
  • Tons of Tips
  • Commonly misspelled or misused words
  • For grammar help, use this excellent site for review and self-quiz. This site has a search engine for grammar
  • Grammar exercises

Organization

  • See the section on "paragraphs" or "essay & research paper level"

Other OWLs

  • Purdue University Online Writing Lab--the original OWL
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