General Writing Resources
Writing Guides
The Structure of a College Essay (doc)
- Describes the structure of a good 5 paragraph essay.
Example Student Essay Outline with References (doc)
- An example outline of a well structured student essay.
Writing Style Websites
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Covers everything you could ever want to know about writing
- Use the link above to access the general information section of the website and to explore the whole website or use the following links to find information on more specific topics:
- The Writing Process
- Advice on how to approach writing
- Academic Writing
- Advice specifically geared towards college level writing
- Common Writing Assignments
- Advice on how to write common types of papers
- Includes argumentative essays, research papers, exploratory papers and book reports
- Mechanics
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- The Writing Process