Research Guide: Writing

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Related Wellesley College academic departments

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• Wellesley College Library catalog

Find background information (dictionaries, etc.)

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary ^WC
• Roget's Thesaurus

Style Manuals

See also our Citation Style Guides page.

• APAStyle.org
• Comic Art in Scholarly Writing
• Elements of Style (Strunk's classic)
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
• MLA's official "Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web"

Find articles and essays

This web page is dedicated to sources that will help you with the craft of writing. If you are looking for information on your topic for your class, see our Research Resources by Subject pages. AskUs for some customized suggestions.

Go to a guide tailored for your class:

Spring 2007

• Convention & Creativity: 4 Contemporary African American Short Story Writers
• Critical Interpretation / English 120
• Defining Asian American Literature
• Law and Film
• Love Manuals: Medieval & Modern
• Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning
• Muckrakers
• Race, Identity, & Ideology
• Sex, the City & Literature
• Story & the Writer

Fall 2006

• Critical Interpretations: Poetry
• Critical Interpretations: The Poetry of John Keats
• Islam, Muslims and the Middle East in Western Media, Literatue and the Arts
• Leaving a Trace, 2006
• Novels of Jane Austen
• Places of Nature
• Spike Lee & Woody Allen: New York City in Black & White
• Women and Memoir
• Writing about the Vietnam War

Spring 2006

• The Art of Fiction
• Authority
• Exile
• Great Short Stories from Russia
• Growing Up Gendered
• Women in Film

Older

• Arguing in Public Places
• Coming-of-age Autobiographies
• The Idea of Home
• Irish Literature
• Literature and Morality
• The Living City on Page and Screen
• Money and Your Life, part I - History of Money
• Money and Your Life, part II - Family Budgets
• The Story and the Writer
• The Writer's Vision

Internet links

• Better Writing: From AskOxford.com, a variety of tips for better writing.
• The Bluebook of Grammar and Punctuation: By Jane Strauss. Click on grammar and punctuation on the left.
• Common Errors in English: From Paul Bryans at Washington State University.
• Purdue University's Online Writing Laboratory: A lot of help for writers at every stage.

Contact the departmental Library liaison

For help with your research, or to schedule a library research session for your class, contact Megan Adams Brooks, library research liaison to the Writing Program.

Go to related Wellesley College academic departments

• Writing Program

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• Date created: March 1, 2001
• Date Modified: June 21, 2007
• Expires: September 1, 2007