Announcements

Brown Bag Workshops, Fall 2008
(in Humanities shared faculty lounge)

Wed. 10/15--Ron Overton:
"The I-Search Essay"

Wed. 10/22--Astrid Wimmer:
"An Option for Teaching Analysis: The Zones Workshop"

Wed. 11/5--Richard Buch:
"Writing Across the Curriculum: Making the Connection"

Wed. 11/12--Rita Nezami:
"Bringing Visual Rhetoric to the Classroom"

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Writing Center

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Writing Utilities

• SBU ONLINE WRITING CENTER
• General Reference Links
• Discussions of Timed Essays and Essay Exams
• Prewriting and Paragraphs
• Sentence and Word Level
• Mechanical Concerns
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Citation of Online Sources
• Research and Documentation
  

General Reference:

• SBU's Reference Shelf (includes Oxford Reference Library, Bartleby, many dictionaries and encyclopedias, almanacs, style guides, quotations). May require SOLAR login off-campus.
• The Internet Public Library Find and read full-text online books, magazines, journals, newspapers, etc.
• Writer's Reference (by Diana Hacker) website with research documentation and writing exercises

Discussions of timed essay exams

• Strategies for Essay Exams and Timed Writings
• WRITING ESSAY EXAMS-- One of many useful discussions provided by Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Prewriting and Paragraphs

• Coping with Writing Anxiety-- This and the following three links come from Purdue's OWL:
  • Planning (Invention)
  • When you start to write
  • Thought Starters (Asking the Right Questions)
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
• The Paragraph and Paragraph development

Sentence and Word Level-- You won't have time to revise your placement essay with these concerns in mind, but be aware that these issues are important to readers.

• Strategies for improving sentence clarity-- From Purdue's OWL
• Conciseness: A discussion of wordiness sponsored by the Purdue OWL.

Mechanics

• Purdue's Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation highlights several common usage problems.
• CUNY Write Site
• Online English Grammar
• Paul Brian's Common Errors in Usage

English as a Second Language (ESL)

• The Purdue OWL's ESL resources page
• Dave's ESL Cafe-- Comprehensive list of ESL resources on the web, along with chat rooms customized for ESL/EFL students.
• TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links-- Variety of pointers, quizzes, and other resources for non-native speakers.

Citation of On-line sources:

• Columbia Guide to Online Style -- by Janice Walker and Todd Taylor

Research and Documentation:

• Purdue Owl's Research and Documentation page
• A Writer's Reference MLA Documentation page