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 **Resources Page** For each set of journals due, research and find one useful online resource and post it here, on the "Resources" page. Give the title, a link, a brief explanation, and your name and date. If you want to create a separate page on our wiki for your resources, that’s fine too. Just send me an email and let me know where you’ve posted it.

Haverford Writing Center at Haverford College__** [] //Aside from being a website for Haverford College's Writing Center, this site has a lot of helpful information to offer other writing center tutors. It goes into great detail in its "Resources for Writers" section, where it covers topics such as "The Writing Process," "Writing in Disciplines" and "Grammar, Punctuation and Style," among many others. Under each of these topics, there are a multitude of links that go into more detail about the various subjects that fall under each category. I found this site to have a lot of useful grammar information, as well as helpful citation techniques. In addition, I found it beneficial to look at another college writing center's website to investigate how they work in comparison to Elon's Writing Center.// Emily Mooney February 21, 2010
 * __Writing Center: Resources for Writers

__**The Writing Center: Writing Resources Harvard Writing Center**__ [|http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/resources.html] //This site contains fabulous resources for different aspects of a paper, including understanding the assignment, thesis formation, outlining, transitioning, and concluding, among other topics. We could use some of these tips in our own writing, but we can use them to help our clients to improve these aspects of their papers as well. Take a look; these tips are very useful.// Megan Justice March 4, 2010

[] //The Western Carolina University website is host to an array of writing resources. The Writing Center sector of the provides helpful links including writing in academic disciplines, sentence-level mechanics, technical writing, assignment strategies and research and documentation. This resource will allow the consultants and the student writers to better their writing processes.// Kristin Pinder March 6, 2010
 * __Western Carolina University - Online Writing Resources__**

University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign: The Center for Writing Studies http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/ This website is a great resource because it covers everything from grammar rules, such as parts of speech and common usage problems to citation styles. It even has an ESL Resources page which lists several other resource websites that a writer can use. This is a good resource to go to if a client has questions you do not know the answers to. Kelly Robinson March 8, 2010

[|www.netlibrary.com] Elon's source for e-books //As one of Elon's biggest majors is Business I thought I would find a helpful source for addressing genres of writing in the business discipline. This book is fairly recent, published in 2008 and takes you smoothly through the best ways to write business plans and proposals. Something that stood out to me is in section 8 when it says 'A proposal is a presentation- in prose' which is something I have never thought of before. Always keep in mind that there are many resources available at Elon's net library. -// Jillian Weiss March 9,2010  A Short Guide to College Writing
 * __Entrepreneur's Guide to Writing Business Plans and Proposals (Dennis Chambers)__**
 * Writing in College:

I thought this resource from the University of Chicago would be useful considering our audience. I know a lot of the statistics Paula showed us said a good majority of our clients were freshmen, including a lot of college writing classes. I remember there being a large difference in writing from high school and college and this resource addresses exactly that transition. Also, in one week we are going as a class to a college writing class where we will consult with two or three freshmen. This may be a good resource to keep in the back of our minds when we are in with the youngest population of Elon students. **

[|Guide to Writing in College] by The University of Chicago. - Michelle Longo March 9, 2010


 * Writing in Scholarly Institutions**

//I found this cache of links to Princeton's Writing Resource Center last year while I was working on a research paper and had a few questions about how to structure my paper. As it turns out, it's the website for Princeton's Writing Center, and has links to answer questions about almost any aspect of writing. Very beneficial.//

[|Princeton's Writing Center] Mike Milano

[|http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html]
 * __Common Errors in English Usage__ by Paul Brians, Washington State University **

//Common Errors in English usage is a really helpful guide to grammar issues. It has answers to probably 99% of the grammar questions we get at the Writing Center. The author of the site, Paul Brians, does not give small answers to these questions. His answers to grammar problems are very well explained. I think Brians does more than just answer simple usage questions; he helps make better writers.// -Michael McFarland March 10, 2010

[] //The George Mason University Writing Resource page includes writing handouts that focus on all aspects of the writing process, from brainstorming straight down to mechanical revision. The handouts are very thorough - I am very impressed by the amount of information they cover. These handouts are important for both the student writer and the consultant and will be of use in almost any situation. Kristin Pinder March 27, 2010 //
 * __George Mason University: Writing Resources__**

__**Brown University Writing Center Resources**__ [] //In relation to our individual WAC presentations, Brown University's website, under Academic Resources, provides guides for writing in the arts and humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences. They spell out the differences and unique qualities about each style of writing. Under Non-Academic Resources, they also offer help with creative writing, journalism, technical writing, grant writing, and writing for various careers. I just thought that simple information on how to write in certain genres and different styles is always beneficial to liberal arts college students, as they are required to take courses and write papers in a variety of subjects. Similar to most other university writing center sites, it also provides general writing guides, as well as help with style, grammar, and citations.// Emily Mooney April 2, 2010

[] //I believe this website is the official website for writing in APA style. There are many tutorials that thoroughly take you through writing in APA style, including how to write a citations page, how to reduce bias in language, how to format a manuscript and much more. They have another tutorial for those who are already familiar with APA style and would like to learn about new developments and change__s. This website also allows you__ to buy the official book to help you with __APA style and other relate__d resources.// - Jillian Weiss April 6, 2010
 * __American Psychological Association__**

http://www.enhancemywriting.com/ //This website has everything from guides on different writing styles to descriptions of jobs in the writing field. It also has links to writing reference sites and material. It even has labs to help people learn to write everything from poetry to business writing. It is easily accessible and user friendly too.// Kelly Robinson April 6, 2010
 * Enhance My Writing .com**

[] // One of Kelly’s journals pointed out how the Writing Center does not have any resources for how to write introductions. This webpage gives some really good strategies for writing introductory paragraphs. It gives a list of things to never do in an introduction, which is really helpful since a lot of students are not aware of what makes a bad introductory paragraph. The site also tells what the purpose of the introductory paragraph is, which is helpful in making clear what is expected from an introduction. The site gives a few strategies for how to grab a reader’s interest in an introductory paragraph. I feel like this is something all writers struggle with and it would be helpful for students to see a few basic strategies. // -Michael McFarland April 7th, 2010
 * //Introductory Paragraphs//**

__**The Writing Center: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill**__ [] //Just like any other university's Writing Center website, UNC-Chapel Hill's offers information on typical aspects of writing, such as transitions, grammar, thesis statements, annotated bibliographies; however, this site has an entire section devoted to handouts that students can print out on Writing the Paper, Citation, Style and Sentence-Level Concerns, Specific Writing Assignments/Contexts, and Writing for Specific Fields. These handouts could come in handy to any student, not just those at UNC, who is struggling to write any aspect of a paper.// Emily Mooney April 19, 2010

ESL: Writing TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Writing/ This link is for ESL students but it is a good source for anyone to use. It is a list of links to writing information. It includes a wide variety of information on writing, such as active and passive voice precise verbs and an overview on English articles. It covers a lot of other stuff too, everything from academic writing tips and check lists to cover letter suggestions. Since we focused some on how to work with ESL students in the Writing Center I thought this would be an appropriate source. I also like it because it focuses on a lot of the more precise grammar details of the English language that ESL people have trouble with. This is good way for people who speak English as a first language to polish and better understand their own language. Kelly Robinson April 20, 2010

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/readassign.html
 * UNC Writing Center's Reading Assignments Handout**

So I know that Emily posted the entire UNC Writing Center website, but I just wanted to draw your attention to the Reading Assignments handout (well, longer than a handout and organized as a web page...like our "Revising Drafts" reading for Monday, April 26th). This page discusses the importance of reading the assignment, but it also gives things to look for, like the following: looking for an overview, finding the actual task that the assignment requires, looking for additional material the professor may want to see, looking for where the professor gives style tips, and finding the technical details of the assignment. It's a cool resource and is definitely something that we could benefit from reading as WC consultants. I didn't realize just how useful UNC's Writing Center website was! If you get some time, take a look at the [|Handouts and Links] page on the site; they have one of these pages for almost every writing-related idea you can think of!

[] //The Hunter College Reading/Writing Center plays the host to information on the writing process, grammar and mechanics, the documented essay/writing paper, writing for English courses writing across the curriculum and business and professional writing. I found this source particularly useful because it covers writing across all discipline. // Kristin Pinder April 26, 2010
 * __The Hunter College Reading/Writing Center__ **

http://www.hws.edu/academics/ctl/writes_collab.aspx
 * Collaborative Revision Strategies** - **Michelle Longo**

The thing I found most useful in the worksheets recently was the revision worksheet. Therefore, I chose this resource which is a collaborative revision worksheet. Collaboration is obviously important in this class and in the writing center so I found this resource especially interesting and pertinent. It has some really good information and some new techniques we have not necessarily read about yet. I think it could really be a helpful tool for the future. April 28, 2010/