Writing CEnter
Websites
Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation - The pubishers of this book allow free access to explanations of many tricky English rules and terms. Citation Machine - A website that allows you to input the information for a book and its author and receive formatted citations in MLA, APA, Turabian, or Chicago formats. EasyBib - A website that allows you to input the information for a book and its author and receive formatted citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago formats. Grammerly - Grammarly automatically detects grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing. It’s easy to use with a free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox. Guide to Grammar and Writing - This link offers drop down menus for specific levels that students might need grammatical assistance. It offers topics on word and sentence levels, quizzes, sentence parts and functions, essay and research paper assistance and how to form good paragraphs. Harvard Writing Center Lumen Verb Tenses & Agreement Merriam Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus - Quick and easy access to a well-recognized language resource. Definitions, synonyms, pronunciation, word history, Vocabulary building games and more. MS Word Citation Function - As an ECCC student, you have access to all the features of MS Word, including an in-text citation tool and reference page creator. OER Commons Academic Writing Exercises PaperRater Paper Grader Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - This site should be a student's best friend. POWA offers tips and assistance of paper writing. Offering numerous links to helpful website with tips for beginning a paper to editing to supporting and ending. Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - This site offers over 200 free resources to assist in paper writing. ALA and MLA and style guides beginning with 7th grade and continuing with professional writers. Reality and Solution of College Plagiarism Infographic - Infographic created by University of Illinois at Chicago showing why students plagiarize and how to prevent plagiarism. RefME - The free tool to create citations, reference lists and bibliographies in any format. Generate citations in seconds using your phone’s camera. All your projects and citations are synced across your devices. RefME WebClipper is the fastest way to cite web pages, articles, videos and books online. The Chrome extension lets you add notes and save your citations whilst you browse the web. Writing Guides @ CSU - These guides are the result of a joint effort of the Writing@CSU project and the Colorado State University Writing Center. Writing Center - University of North Carolina's online writing lab page provides articles, links, videos, and other tools to assist students with writing a paper, formatting citations, understanding specific writing assignments and writing for specific fields. |
Resources for Research Papers
EBSCOHost Databases Points of View Reference Center Issues and Controversies SIRS Researcher ProCon.org Guides & Handouts
Comma Handout Developing Strong Thesis Statements Independent/Dependent Clause Handout Integrating Sources Into Your Research Paper - This PDF provides an explanation of how to integrate source texts into your research paper. Rhetorical Analysis Toolkit Templates for Responding to Arguments - Click here to find a list of signal phrases that you may use to respond to an argument posed by a critic or scholar. Transition Chart |