RESOURCES

GETTING STARTED

These links connect to compilations of useful handouts and explanations that can aid both writers and tutors alike. Have a grammar question? Need a brainstorming strategy? These pages provide guidelines for writers in any stage of the writing process, and suggest approaches that can help tutors shape a productive writing conversation.

• The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: This site includes information from Michael Harvey's book, The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, with links to pages about thinking, style, structure, evidence, and mechanics. This book is also available for purchase online.

 

• UNC: The UNC Writing Center site offers a menu of helpful handouts, including general strategies for academic writing, explanations of writing in different disciplines and styles, and tips on common grammar pitfalls.

 

• University of Toronto: This website offers readable instructions on each stage of the writing process - from planning and organizing to style and editing.

 

• Marquette: The Marquette University Writing Center offers expectations for writing in various arts and sciences.

 

• Brown: The Brown Writing Center provides resources in five areas, including general resources, academic writing guides, non-academic writing links, tools on references, and links to other university's writing centers.

 

A NOTE TO WRITERS AND TUTORS ON USING RESOURCES

These pages, and others listed in this site, are part of the hundreds of new and innovative materials available on the challenges of academic wriitng, peer editing and review. You may find it helpful to read and discuss a handout in response to a grammar concern, or to use a general questionairre sheet to help with revision. But in the end, they are your tools, not the essence of your work. Above all, cultivate critical reading, and let these pages serve in support of that end.