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English Composition: Writing Help

Books on Writing

Online Writing Labs (OWLs)

Online Writing Labs (OWLS) are free go-to resources for writing. They provide assistance, resources, workshops and courses to help students at all skill levels develop their writing skills. Below is a list of some OWLs:

Purdue Online Writing Lab 

English for Academic Writing Foundation 

UC Berkeley Online Writing Lab

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Excelsior Online Writing Lab

Harvard College Writing Center

Grammar

Formal speaking and writing requires standard conventions or “rules”  to be correct. Grammar provides a set of structural rules that speakers and writers use to decide how to create a speech or piece of writing. 

Grammar Essentials & Grammar Refresher (Excelsior OWL)

Grammar Monster

Grammarbook.com

Grammar Bytes 

Free Dictionaries Project 

OneLook Dictionary Search 

Elements of Style (William Strunk) 

Additional Writing Resources

Writing Tips Sheets (Butte College)

ProCon.org

This website provides sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as relevant reference information.

AllSides

Provides information from all sides of the political spectrum.

Pew Research Center

The Center has a list of topics and also includes survey and demographic data.

Grammarly

A free digital writing assistance tool.

UCNJ LibGuides at Union College