Writing Process
Getting Started/Prewriting and Invention
- Beginning a Piece of Writing (National Council of Teachers of English--NCTE)
- Brainstorming (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Brainstorming and Generating Ideas (Antioch University Virtual Writing Center)
- Clustering (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
- Determining What to Write About (National Council of Teachers of English--NCTE)
- Freewriting (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
- Listing (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Mapping (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Prewriting (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- See It in Practice--Prewriting Strategies (Video) (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Starting the Writing Process (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Understanding Assignments (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Understanding Writing Assignments (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Webbing (Video) (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
Making a Claim/Writing a Thesis Statement
- Common Problems--Thesis Statements (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Creating a Thesis Statement (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Developing a Thesis Statement (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
- Parts of a Thesis Sentence (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- See It in Practice--Thesis Statements (Video) (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Synthesis and Thesis Development (Video) (Walden University Writing Center)
- Thesis Angles (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Thesis and Purpose Statements (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
- Thesis Creation (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Thesis Statement (Cleveland State University Writing Center)
- The Thesis Statement (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
- Thesis Statements (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Writing Strong Thesis Statements (Video) (Walden University Writing Center)
- Writing with a Sense of Purpose (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
Planning and Organizing/Writing an Outline
- Color Coding (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Considering Structure and Organization (Dartmouth College Institute for Writing and Rhetoric)
- Developing an Outline (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Outlines (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Outlining (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
- Organization (Cleveland State University Writing Center)
- Organizing Your Writing (National Council of Teachers of English--NCTE)
- Sample Essay and Outline (NDSU Center for Writers)
- Template for Outlining a Paper (NDSU Center for Writers)
Introductions and Conclusions
- Conclusions (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Introduction Purpose (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Introduction Strategies (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Introductions (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
- Introductions and Conclusions (Cleveland State University Writing Center)
- See It in Practice--Introductions (Video) (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Writing Introductions and Conclusions (NDSU Center for Writers)
Revising
- Getting Feedback (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom, A Guide for Students (Video) (MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing)
- Peer Review (Video) (Excelsior College Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Reorganizing Drafts (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Reverse Outline (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Reverse Outlines (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
- Reverse Outlining: An Exercise for Taking Notes and Revising Your Work (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Revising Drafts (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- Revision (Cleveland State University Writing Center)
- Revision Practices (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Writing Center)
- So You've Finished a First Draft: Reverse Outlining (UC Berkeley Student Learning Center)
- Steps for Revising Your Paper (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Using Math to Improve Writing (American Society of News Editors)
Editing/Proofreading
- Copyediting (Cleveland State University Writing Center)
- Editing and Proofreading (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
- The Editing and Rewriting Process (Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing)
- How to Proofread (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center)
- Polishing Your Writing (National Council of Teachers of English--NCTE)
- Proofreading (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Proofreading and Editing Strategies (NDSU Center for Writers)
- Trouble Spots to Avoid (NDSU Center for Writers)
Overcoming Writer's Block
- Confronting Writing Anxiety (University of Richmond Writing Center)
- Writer's Block (Purdue University Online Writing Lab--OWL)
- Writing Anxiety (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)