Writing an Essay
When you need more information on Writing an Essay:
- Writing effective paragraphs
- Critical reading
- Critical writing
For additional help beyond our companion site access:
Writing
Paragraphs by Dorothy Turner
Hosted by The University of Ottawa, this comprehensive site
divides paragraph writing into easy-to-follow steps including
outlining, organizing, and developing your paragraph.
Research
Papers: Audience
Provides information about why it is important to know who the
audience for your paper is. Also provides links to scholarly
articles on writing audience.
Starting
to Write
Provides information for students about how to define what the
purpose of their writing is as well as how to stick to that
purpose when they begin writing.
The
Professor as Audience
This site provides information about writing for professors in
disciplines OTHER than English.
Planning:
Thought Starters (Asking the right questions)
This site takes you through a series of questions to help you
determine your topic.
Writing
Description
This site focuses primarily on writing the descriptive essay, but
also shows how to incorporate description in any essay.
Narrative
Essays
This site explains the principles and conventions of writing
narrative essays, the form that "more than any other"
offers writers the chance to think and write about themselves.
Peer
Reviews: Responding to a Draft
This site offers good advice on critiquing another student's work.
General
Strategies for Editing and Proofreading
This site offers a good, step-by-step method of editing a paper.
Revising
and Editing Your Paper
This site contains a comprehensive guide for editing and revising
your essay from the Citadel Writing Center.
Top
Ten Ways to Respond to Other People's Writing
This site gives hints on how to respond to another student's
writing from the Writing Resource Center at Bemidji State.
The
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page
Do you want to get published? This Web site offers a chance to
enter a contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst novel
ever written.
Creative
Nonfiction
This site is the home of the online journal entitled Creative
Nonfiction.
Writers
Website
This site provides more than 1,000 links of interest to writers,
including contests, publications, literary agents, and resources.
Evaluating
Sources of Information
This site gives useful questions to ask yourself about the sources
you locate.
Evaluating
Information on the Internet
This site contains a thorough examination of the difference
between looking for information and thinking critically about the
information you find.
How
to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find
This is an excellent Web site that offers critical questions for
evaluating various forms of print media, shows how to tell the
difference between scholarly and non-scholarly periodicals, and
offers a table for evaluating Web sites.
Writing
Essays in Literature Classes
This site offers general advice on writing persuasive essays.
Writing
Persuasive Essays
This site gives step-by-step strategies for writing a persuasive
essay.
Planning
Your Argument
This site allows you to choose your starting point in the process
of writing an argument, and then offers detailed guidelines for
helping you think through each stage.
Parts
of an Argument
This site allows you to choose which components of an argument you
would like to learn more about.
Definitions
of Argument
This site defines three main types of argument: academic, formal,
and informal.
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