Writing Resource Links

Academic Writing | Paragraphing | Sentences | Business Writing | Dictionaries | On-line Style Guides | Activities | Search Engines

Academic Writing

Components of Graduate Papers <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/components.html> 
Keeping a Reading Journal <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/puller.html>
Evaluating Sources <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/eval.html>
Keeping a Researcher's Notebook <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/notebook.html>
Taking Specific Information Notes <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/specnotes.html>
Taking Summary Notes <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/sumnotes.html>
Trinity College: How to Write a Resume <http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/career/guides/resume.shtml>
Paraphrasing Exercieses: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/parap.html>
Getting Started: <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/1stqs.html>
Brainstorming: <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/brainst.html>
Thesis Statements <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/g_b_thes.html>
Conclusions <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/conclude.htm>

Paragraphing

Effective Paragraphs <http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/paragrph.html>

Sentences

English Conjunctions by Linda Bryson <http://www.gsu.edu/%7Ewwwesl/egw/bryson.htm>
Sentence Combining <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/combining_skills.htm>
Sentence Combining Quiz 1 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz2.htm>
Sentence Combining Quiz 2 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/combining_quiz1.htm>
Sentence Combining Quiz 3 <http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/primer_quiz.htm>
Compound and Complex sentences: a quiz to help you distinguish between the two types of sentences. <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_5c.htm>
Parallelism from The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/rhetoric.html
Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm
Quiz 1 on Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/parallelism_quiz.htm
Quiz 2 on Parallelism from Captial Community College http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm

Business Writing

Writing a Resume <http://writecenter.cgu.edu/students/brores_resumes.html>
Revision Guidelines <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/revise93.html>
Writing About Film <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/film.html>
Guide to Gracious Criticism <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/eiphand.html>
Paraphrasing <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/parap.html>
Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/introcon.html>
Business Letters (with links to more detailed examples) <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/business.html>
Avoiding Writer's Block <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/writingcenter/handouts/avbloc.html>

On-line Reference Materials

Dictionaries

Your Dictionary -- A collection of on-line dictionaries <http://www.yourdictionary.com/>
Merriam-Webster/Franklin Spelling Help <http://www.m-w.com/home.htm>
My Virtual Reference Desk - A collection of dictionaries, news, facts, etc. <http://www.refdesk.com/>
Bartlet's Quotations <http://www.bartleby.com/99/>
The Oxford English Dictionary On-line (accessible only from a Tokoha computer)

On-line Style Guides

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing <http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html>

Activities

Hangman <http://www2.allmixedup.com/cgi-bin/hangman/hangman>

Creative Writing

What makes a good short story? Read and explore. <http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/>

Search Engines

Altavista <http://www.altavista.com/>
Ask Jeeves <http://www.askjeeves.com/>
Excite <http://www.excite.com/>
Google <http://www.google.com/>
Hotbot <http://www.hotbot.com/>
Infoseek <http://www.infoseek.com>
Lycos <http://www.lycos.com/>
Northern Light <http://sirocco.northernlight.com/>

Translation Sites

These sites can give you a general idea of what an English Web site contains, but should not be used to translate Japanese to English for your own compositions.

Excite has the best translation from English to Japanese and Japanese to English.