Sealy Library - Writing Resources

Writing Sites

• John Jay's Writing Center - schedule of writing center workshops, hours, and some helpful instructional material under Resources, in addition to links to other online writing laboratories (OWLs) .
  
  
• City College Writing Center - has many helpful online handouts which provide aid at every stage of the writing process: from organizing a paper, to doing an outline, to defining your thesis statement, to integrating sources, and paraphrasing.  
  
  
• CUNY WriteSite - offers help with grammar and style, the writing process, and hints for how to handle various kinds of writing, throughout the disciplines.  Interactive practice exercises available.
  
  
• Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) - offers a wealth of information about writing including handouts. workshops,  and other Internet writing sites.  Try browsing their list of handouts!!
  
  
• Writer's Handbook - from the University of Wisconsin, Madison Writing Center - a comprehensive writing resource with sections on:
• Stages of the writing process - getting started, drafting, revising, proofreading, etc.
• Common types of writing assignments
• Grammar & puncuation
• Improving your witing
• Citing references
   
  

How To... Guides

• Creating an Annotated Bibliography
  
• Writing an Annotated Bibliography (from Cornell University Libraries)
  
• How to Write an Annotated Bibliography (from the University of Minnesota, Crookson Library)
  
  
• Documenting Sources: Using APA Format - a Power Point presentation to teach the use of the APA Style guides for documenting sources. From the Purdue University Writing Lab.
  
  
• Writing a Research Paper - a workshop by Sarah Hamid of the Purdue University, Online Writing Laboratory (OWL)
  
  
• Thesis Statements - several useful sources for reading about thesis statements are available:
• Writing a Thesis Statement - from the Purdue OWL
• Developing a Thesis Statement - from the Writing Lab at the University of Wisconsin
• How to Write a Thesis Statement - from the Writing Center at the University of Indiana