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Writing Resources 1.The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com by
Professor Michael Harvey Professor Harvey has taught writing across the curriculum for many years and conceived of this guide because he kept encountering the same problems in student papers whether at Ivy League colleges or in public schools. The guide is accessible, written in an engaging, and often humorous style. The website is easy to navigate and organized in a way that makes it easy to pinpoint any problem areas you wish to work on. His sections on citation and documentation formats are especially useful for writing research papers. Most universities list his website (and the book he recently published which encapsulates most of the information available on the site, and sells for a mere $5) among their top ten research and writing resource recommendations. The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing will prove an invaluable resource throughout your college career. 2.A Writer's Reference http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/ http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ by Diana Hacker formerly of Montgomery Community College Diana Hacker's book on writing essays, term papers, and research papers is probably the most widely used textbook on this subject. The website is organized as clearly and efficiently as the tabulated format of the text. The first link is to general writing issues and contains scores of on-line exercises that help students to identify and correct common problems and issues such as run-on sentences, fragments, thesis statements, and organizational techniques for entire papers and individual paragraphs. The second link takes you directly to the section of the guide that deals specifically with research writing and sources and documentation of research papers. Here she offers detailed information on three documentation styles: MLA for the humanities, APA for the social sciences, the Chicago style guide for history, and the CSE style guide for the sciences. In this course we will be using the MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Guide, both to maintain consistency in our many overlapping group projects and to familiarize you with the documentation style most often required in many humanities courses you will be taking here at SCCC and at university. The research documentation (“resdoc”) link also includes a useful guide to evaluating sources which we will refer to during that segment of the course. 3.Writing with Sources http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~expos/sources/ by Gordon Harvey Harvard University This is an excellent compact and portable guide to using and incorporating sources in research writing. It is no longer available on-line in HTML format but you can download an archived copy in Rich Text Format (unfortunately, not compatible with all computer systems) using this link. 4.Princeton University Writing Center Princeton University Writing Center This link takes you directly to the most pertinent information available on Princeton's Writing Center site. Here you will find clear, succinct handouts under the heading “Advice on Academic Writing”, including important information on developing a thesis, developing an argument, revision, and writing abstracts. The site also provides concise information on the mechanics of writing and a helpful list of what many teachers believe to be the most dependable and useful resources available to college students. One of the books listed is Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams of the University of Chicago, a text that now serves as a veritable bible on issues of style, espousing clarity and brevity—what we call the plain style—in college composition.
(A most useful resource, don't be put off by the issuing institution.)
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