Writing & Grammar
PRENTICE HALL
Writing
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Writing Links
OWL—The Purdue University Online Writing Lab
This site provides useful advice and exercises to improve your writing. There are also more than 100 handouts on writing, grammar, spelling, and punctuation topics, plus slide shows that will be particularly useful when you are doing research writing.
The Write Place
This site, created jointly by St. Cloud State University in Minnesota and Literacy Education Online, provides lots of help on the writing process, organizing writing projects, writing styles, grammar, punctuation, and business writing.
Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This is a good place to find tips for writing different types of essays, responses to literature, and assessment essays. Another part of the site contains a very helpful Grammar Handbook.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This site provides step-by-step assistance for writing different kinds of essays plus a large number of interactive exercises.
A Guide to Reading Other Students' Writing Critically
You might find this essay included on the Web site of George Mason University 's Writing Center useful. It is entitled "You Lost Me in the Third Paragraph: A Guide to Gracious Criticism." It provides a step-by-step process for reading other students' writing with a critical eye and offers helpful hints for improving your own writing, too.
Grammar Links
Guide to Grammar and Writing
This site, developed by Professor Charles Darling at Capital Community College in Hartford , Connecticut , presents interesting instructional materials and fun interactive activities on a wide range of grammar, mechanics, and sentence structure topics.
Grammar Bytes
This site provides "one-stop shopping" for learning about dozens of grammar terms and concepts. There are lots of interactive grammar exercises, too, to let you test your knowledge.
OWL—The Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Along with providing help on your writing, this site offers useful handouts on grammar, spelling, and punctuation topics.
Grammar Quizzes
This site provides lots of self-scoring grammar quizzes. The site is designed especially for students for whom English is not their native language, but it can be helpful for everyone who wants to test his or her grammar skills.
Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grammar Handbook on this site provides well-organized grammar instruction and examples.