Resources

Online BSU Writing Center Handouts\Exercises

Conquering the Comma Splice (PowerPoint presentation)  
Punctuation Hierarchy (PowerPoint presentation)


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Citation

Research and Documentation Online  A resource from Diana Hacker and Bedford St. Martin's. Includes information and examples of APA, MLA, CBE, and Chicago styles. An excellent site.
APA style  Answers to questions about APA citations.
Chicago/Turabian style  Examples of footnotes and endnotes.
Turabian Another good site for citing. 
MLA style  Answers to questions about MLA citations.
ACS Format A page on the American Chemical Society guidelines, from CORE, the Chemistry/Ohiolink Resource Explorer.
Citation Machine  An online tool designed to help with MLA/APA styles.
Rapid Cite  An online tool designed to help with MLA/APA/CHICAGO styles.
Knight Cite  Another online tool designed to help with MLA/APA/CHICAGO styles.
Dartmouth's "Sources" Page  Lots of helpful information about citations.


Grammar

Guide to Grammar and Writing  An excellent site with descriptions, examples, quizzes, and PowerPoint presentations.
Purdue University OWL  Convenient handouts on grammar and usage for help with problems such as comma splices and run-on sentences.
Common Errors in English From Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant  Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook written in HTML and distributed freely over the WWW. It uses hypertext structure to create a web of links and text frames that you can navigate quickly and easily by clicking your desired choice.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  More handouts on grammar, citation, various writing assignments, and writing for different disciplines.
The Elements of Style  The classic text online.
Guide to Grammar and Style  A list of grammatical and stylistic terms.
LEO Editing & Proofreading Strategies  A handout that focuses on ways to self-edit.


Tutorials, Terms, and The Writing Process

Re:Writing: A collection of free Web resources from Bedford St. Martin's. Included are tutorials on avoiding plagiarism, model documents, and style/grammar exercises.
Writer's Guide from Jack Lynch, Rutgers University A comprehensive view of the writing process geared towards undergraduate writers.
Writer's Web Topic Index from the University of Richmond  Examines the different stages of the Writing Process, as well as terms that are often misunderstood.
Praxis Essay Test  Tutorial for the Praxis Essay Exam from IUP.
ELL Writing Tutorials from MONASH University  Comprehensive tutorials on writing in English in the different disciplines.
Dictionary.com  An online dictionary and thesaurus.