Bibliography of Web Sites
On Writing

Grammar

• The Elements of Style, Rules of usage and elements of composition, William Strunk, Jr.,
  Project Bartleby (est. 1994) Archive, Columbia University, New York (an incredible resource for English courses)
• Guide to Grammar & Writing - Sentence, paragraph, and essay levels
• On-Line English Grammar - alphabetical listing of topics and explanations by Anthony Hughes, St. John's Wood School of English, London England
• Grammar & Style Notes -  alphabetical listing of grammatical topics and explanations
• Guide to Grammar and Writing, Professor Charles Darling, Capital Community College.  Organized by "levels" including word and sentence, paragraph, essay and research paper, etc. and presented text-only, illustrated, and framed versions.

Organizing the Essay and its Process

• OWL, Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.  With a great list of handouts organized by category.
• The Writing Process - very comprehensive Writing Center, University of Richmond, Virginia
• Graphic Organizers - the basic spidering approach with lots of graphics North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
• Graphic Organizers - types are graphically presented San Diego County Office of Education, California
• Graphic Organizers - excellent indexed grid by types (can be copied for educational purposes) Greg Freeman, Bend, Oregon
• Writing Center handouts on writing - 5 paragraph essay & Generating Sensory Details, Maple Woods Writing Center, Missouri
• Writing University Essays, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada

Writing the Essay

• Essay Writing Tips - parts of an essay, how to write an essay, kinds of essays Writing Den by TestDen
• Writing an Effective Expository Essay - takes you step-by-step through the process University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
• Eleven rules of Writing - basics, basics, basics Junket Studies Internet Services

• Structure of the 5 Paragraph Essay - explanation and examples English Department,  Glendale Community College, Arizona
• Five Paragraph Essay - background information with the emphasis on planning

• Thesis Statement - good explanation and examples

• Writing Effective Introductions - clear advice with examples
• Paragraph Development - has a great opening paragraph example
• Writing Effective Conclusions - good ideas with examples
• Conclusion: Re-Emphasis of the Thesis - good example and suggestions
• Using Transitions - explains why and gives examples

Editing the Essay

• Editing Paragraphs - list of things to check

Tools for writing

• Roget's Thesaurus
• Hypertext Webster (dictionary) Gateway

Citing Web Sites

• The Columbia Guide to Online Style (MLA and APA)
• Citing from the Internet:  APA Style

Other Compendiums of Internet Resources

• Writing-Related Internet Sites
  "Write Your Way to a Higher GPA:  Indispensable Writing Resources" in four categories:
  On-Line Writing Labs and Centers on the Web; General Writing/Grammar Resources on the Web; Subject-Specific Writing Resources on the Web; Miscellaneous Collection of Writing-Related Sites
• Writing-Related Resources, an excellent compendium by topic (including getting published!) produced by the Writing Lab at Purdue University.

Initiated with portions copied (with permission) from: Kasper, J. The Five Paragraph Essay, 13 January, 1999, http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/index.html.

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