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Resources
Becoming Your Own Editor
Purdue University’s online handouts: This site covers
- parts of speech, sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling
- general writing concerns (writer’s block, planning, editing, style, writing essay exams)
- writing research papers and citing sources
- writing in the job search
- professional writing
- English as a second language
Interactive
grammar: This site provides guides to help you work on sentence-level
to essay-level writing concerns. It includes interactive quizzes to test
your knowledge of grammar. For example, the section called "Garden
of Phrases" discusses noun, prepositional, appositive, absolute,
infinitive, gerund, and participial phrases and then offers a quiz on
recognizing phrase functions. The site also allows you to submit short
questions about English usage.
Elements of Style: This classic text by William Strunk, Jr. gives tips on how to achieve clear and concise writing.
