"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork." -Peter De Vries

Writing Resources

ESL Writers
Writers
Writing Teachers

http://english.georgetown.edu/writing/esl.htm#introduction%202

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

On-Line Reference Guides
MLA on the Web

Janice Walker's semi-official MLA-style citation guide for electronic resources.

Roget's Thesaurus

On-line Writing Labs (OWLs) at Other Schools
All kinds of help is available through the writing labs at these forward-looking schools. Some OWLs are interactive: you can email in your questions about writing, and their tutors will respond to you as they have time. Nearly all OWLs also include help files (tips on grammar, writing, research writing) and all have links to other helpful reference sites.

Purdue's On-Line Writing Lab

The University of Missouri's On-Line Writery

The University of Richmond's page

Check out the Writer's Web

Good Sites for Science Writing
National Association of Science Writers

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

US Census

Cell and Molecular Biology Online

Johns Hopkins medical library

Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

GeneClinics (information about specific diseases from University of Washington)

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Sites of general interest to composition teachers
The Daedalus Group site contains lots of useful tips, articles, and information for writing teachers who use DIWE in their computer/writing classrooms.

Sample course sites, created by writing teachers for their classes
"Rhetorical Dimensions of Computing" Taught at UT/Austin by John Slatin. Very nice clear page with lots of links to sites of scholarly interest

Other English and Literature departmental websites:
University of Washington One of the best and most extensive resources in the field.

Interesting books and journals to read on the web
Howard Rheingold's book: The Virtual Community. He actually keeps the whole dang book on the Web! Rheingold is a sociologist who also wrote a book about coffeehouse culture (andother related cultures, which he calls "third spaces," alternative to home and work spaces).

Across the Disciplines is a refereed online Writing Across the Curriculum journal edited by Mike Palmquist and others at Colorado State. In addition to interviews and articles about writing in various disciplines, it includes pages of links to WAC sites across the country.

Making WWW pages: sources of help
Yale style guide; most people agree this is the best discussion of good style for a web page.

Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, has a nice set of tutorials and well-selected links to other sites that can help you in learning about hypertext. Also has quite a few on-line courses, so you can see how faculty organize and make use of the hypertext format and the information available on the web in their teaching.

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• Lynne Viti and Wini Wood
• Wellesley College Writing Program
• Created by: Karyn Lu '01
• Updated by: Rebecca Keyel '06
• Date Created: June 29, 2000
• Date Modified: October 8, 2002
• Expires: June 30, 2008

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