University Writing

Online Writing Resources

 

 

General Resources

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

This is the Purdue Online Writing Center. It has excellent helps in a number of areas—including letter writing.

 

http://english.byu.edu/WritingCenter/writingtips.html

The BYU Writing Center also has a fine collection of helps for writers.

 

 

Helps with Usage, Grammar, and Punctuation

http://www.dianahacker.com/student.html

Diana Hacker has an excellent website to use in connection with her handbooks. But you don’t need to have bought the handbook to use it. Just click on one of the covers, log in with a name, and you can do self-correcting exercises, which include explanations.

 

http://webclips.byu.edu/

BYU has self-paced instruction modules on grammar, etc. Students can take a pre-test and a post-test, as well as practice with learning drills. You need to register your class with them to use this, but it can be very helpful. Talk to Harold Hendricks (2-6448) for more information.

 

 

 

Documentation Format Style Guides

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

University of Wisconsin at Madison has a user-friendly guide to most documentation formats.

http://www.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/SubsUtility/dbresources.pl?e_id=25

The BYU library has links to many good online resources for various formats.