Writing Resources

Here are some links to websites that contain MLA formatting for your essays, how to write a research essay, and other very important information that will help you to Escape the Matrix successfully.

• Capital Community College's Humanities Dept., "Guide To Grammar and Writing",

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

This first one is Capital Community College's Guide to basic grammar and how to write. I like it and include it in the Recommended Links for all my classes because it is easy to navigate and offers a wealth of information.  

• and their other writing website Guide for Research Essays, http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

This is their companion website Guide For Writing Research Essays. As its name states, it focuses on how to write a research essay. It briefly but succinctly covers all the elements that go into writing a good research essay.  

• UC Santa Barbera's 'Transcriptions Project' "Evaluating and Citing Online Sources" webpage,

http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/resources/evaluating-citing.shtml

Univ. of California Santa Cruz offers this website that has fantastic suggestions and guides on how to discern reliable from unreliable websites. It also tells how to cite websites in research essays and projects. Unfortunately, many of the links to guides on evaluating websites are dead. But these are the ones I found active and quite good: ICYouSee, Holmes-Evaluating Web Sites, Internet Detective, Alexander- Evaluating Web Resources, and Meyer- Evaluating the Quality of World Wide Web Resources.