Online Resources
ACADEMIC WRITING CONVENTIONS
"Writing for Success is an open-source text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition."
◆ A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading
"[This open-source book offers] a comprehensive approach to literacy instruction by focusing on reading and writing, A Writer's Guide to Mindful Reading supports students as they become more reflective, deliberate, and mindful readers and writers by working within a metacognitive framework."
A companion site to the book They Say/I Say, which is a core text in WRIT 190. Using templates and thinking about logical moves can help you to master academic style.
General writing, discipline-specific, and ESL-related content
◆ Sheryl Holt’s YouTube Channel
Academic writing video tutorials created by a TESOL specialist
DOCUMENTING YOUR SOURCES: CITATION & FORMATTING STYLES
◆ Purdue's Online Writing Lab: Research and Citation Styles
VOCABULARY & DICTIONARIES
◆ Merriam-Webster Monolingual Dictionary
◆ Online Collocation Dictionary
◆ Manchester Academic Phrasebank
GRAMMAR AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE
◆ Grammar Troublespots: An Editing Guide for Student Writers. 3rd Ed.
This book gives a good, quick review of the most frequent errors, and can be found in the reference section of Canaday Library.
US ACADEMIC CONVENTIONS
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Friday
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday
2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Read Our Blog
On-the-job musings by BMC Writing Center tutors