High School Visits to Fondren Library: Academic Writing

• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)

  Purdue's Online Writing Lab offers detailed guidance for citation formatting (MLA, APA, and Chicago).

• UC Berkeley Academic Writing Tips

  This resource offers a simple list 9 ways to improve your writing. Other pages accessible from this link include editing, revision, and citation guides.

• Harvard College Writing Center

  Provides strategies for essay writing and other helpful guides.

• Writer's Web

  Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty.

• Hemingway Editor

  A free copy and paste app that highlights common errors and suggestions corrections.

• Proofread Bot

  Proofread Bot improves your communication by checking your writing for style, grammar, statistic and plagiarism issues.

• Thesis Generator

  A step-by-step site to help you formulate an argumentative thesis.

• Academic Phrasebank

  The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation.

• Citation Machine

  With your inputted data generates standard bibliographic and in-text citations for MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago.

• The Write At Home Blog 

A basic proofreading checklist for essays.

Check out Virtual Salt. It contains resources for learners of all levels of education--middle school, high school, college, and university students. On this website, you will find internet related items, articles related to literature, tools for writers, and much more.

• How Library Stuff Works Videos are tutorials that have been developed by McMasters University to cover a broad range of topics to help with research and writing. Some of the topics included are research, finding articles, finding books, and citing.

The Write At Home Blog

• An online community to support and encourage middle and high school students and to help young writers improve their writing skills