Composition:
Electronic Writing Labs here at COCC
How to access: First Class Conferencing/COCC Community Folder/Especially for Students folder
Services: Comments and responses to essays, paragraphs, reports and other writing assignments; answers to questions concerning grammar and punctuation. Answers to specific editing questions (Please Note: this is not an editing service.
Staff: Humanities Dept. Faculty
Turn around time: 24 hours, weekdays onlyOnline Writing Lab at COCC
http://www.cocc.edu/opencampus/students/owl.htmServices: Comments and responses to essays, paragraphs, reports and other writing assignments; answers to questions concerning your grammar and punctuation. Answers to specific editing questions (Please note: the is not an editing service).
Staff: Humanities Dept. Faculty
Turn around time: 24 hours, weekdays only
Submit your work: http://www.cocc.edu/opencampus/students/owlform.htmOther web-based Writing Labs
OWL Writing-Related Resources - OWL [Online Writing Lab] - Purdue Univ.Writing Lab, funded by the School of Liberal Arts at Purdue, 1999: regularly updated & comprehensive set of helpful links, plus OWL online handouts:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/Rochester Institute of Technology's list of Internet Resources for English Composition students
National Writing Centers Association (an "NCTE Assembly, maintained by Bruce Pegg, Director, Colgate Univ. Writing Center): links to Writing Center Resources, Writing Centers Online, Resources for Writers, Tutor Stories, E-Mail Discussion Groups, Electronic and Print Journals.
More Writer's Resources from Literature Resources for the High School and College Student
Online Resources for Writers from the Univ. of Maine's Writing Center
Tools for College Writing, Joseph McNeilly, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA: Although originally designed for basic writing students, this website is "valuable to English students everywhere. Students navigating this site will discover what it's like to be a college student, and learn some fundamental skills that will enhance their chance of success as college writers. To help ESL students and students with learning disabilities this website is voiced and features an on-screen, online dictionary."
Nesbitt-Johnson Writing Center, Hamilton College (Clinton, NY):
Dakota State U. Online Writing Lab: This online writing lab (OWL) provides writing assistance by email to students in remote locations.
Online Writery - U. of Missouri: "A virtual place for writers. This place is a kind of a road-side stop for writers, like a rest area with maps and information and other people hanging about. The Online Writery is a place to write and read and talk, but mostly a place to learn stuff. It is a resource you can use whether you are writing for a class or not."
The Playwriting Seminars: This experimental site, by Richard Toscan, Dean of Portland State University, School of Fine and Performing Arts, explores the design and development of a web-based professional manual of the playwright's craft for would-be playwrights and screenwriters. Topics include how to come up with a title for your play, how to develop plots and dramatic structure, and how to overcome writer's block, as well as the business aspects of play writing.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Purdue offers a comprehensive online collection of writing materials. Their handouts cover: Business/Professional Writing, ESL, General Writing Concerns, Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Research Paper Writing and Citations, Resumes, Sentence Concerns, and Spelling.
Style Manuals:
Diana Hacket and Barbara Fister's Research and Documentation Online
Covers the following:Janice Walker and Todd Taylor's The Columbia Guide to Online Style
MLA Style Manual: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~instruct/guides/mla.html
APA Style Manual: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~instruct/guides/apa.html
Chicago Humanities/Turabian Style Manual: http://library.jmu.edu/citation/chicagostyle.pdf
CBE Style Manual: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE6.html
Evaluating Websites (from Cornell Library): http://ww.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.htmlStyle Questions and some Models:
Which documentation system should you use
More Guidance for Using MLA (humanities) or Chicago Author-DateCorrect Mechanics for Direct Quotations
More models for MLA Works Cited
Documenting Electronic SourcesMore models for Chicago Author-Date References List
Sample Works Cited Page for MLA Style
Sample Reference Page for Chicago Author-Date StylePublishing:
Xlibris, where "we give you everything you need to become your own publisher. We work with you to create your book, then print copies on-demand for your readers": http://www.xlibris.com/
Grammar:
Grammar Workshop: http://www.cocc.edu/elatham/grammar_shop.htm
Study Guides and Strategies:
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/: "This simple and practical guide, created by Joe Landsberger of the University of St. Thomas's Learning Center, offers straightforward study strategies to students. Students can select specific hints and strategies from six general categories (in English or six other language options): Study Preparation, Studying, Writing Skills, In the Classroom, Reading Skills, and Testing Skills. Landsberger lists his references in each selection; these include David B. Ellis's On Becoming a Master Student, Walter Pauk's How to Study in College, and Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, among others. A list of links to study tools and guides from other universities completes the site."--description from The Scout Report, 4 Sept. 1998
URL of this webpage:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/WIC/WriterResources.htm
Last Updated: 13 January 2003
This webpage was created by Jacob Agatucci, Instructor of Composition,
Humanities Department, Central Oregon Community College
© Jacob Agatucci, 2001
I welcome comments: jagatucci@cocc.edu
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