Online Materials

Grammar Topics

• Guide to Grammar and Writing This is the most comprehensive grammar site on the web!
  
• Writing and Grammar An excellent site! This site has practice grammar tests.
  
• Punctuation Handouts for sentence punctuation, apostrophes, commas, hyphens, other punctuation, and, quotation marks
  
• Parts of Speech Handouts for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and prepositions.
  
• Sentence Construction Handouts on sentence parts, patterns, sentence errors, sentence punctuation, clauses and phrases, dangling modifiers, parallel structure, active and passive voice in verbs
  
• Writing (Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres) Handouts on planning/starting to write, effective writing, revising/editing/proofreading, types/genres of writing
  
• NC State University's Online Writing Lab An informative site with loads of actual student questions answered clearly and often cleverly
  
• The Writing Source A good site for proofreading and editing tips. Applicable to any writing assignment. Accessible through "the file" icon.

• Learning Lab Tips on Critical Analysis - Poetry - By Carroll Campell What is poetry? How is it analyzed? What are the elements of poetry? Answers to these questions and many more.
  
• Learning Lab Tips on Critical Analysis - Fiction A great resource for critical analysis of fiction by Carroll Campell.
  
• Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. A classic, now available on-line.
  
• Indiana University Writing Resources A good source for APA citation, book review format, using outlines, writing a good thesis statement, paragraphs and topic sentences. Explanations are clear and detailed. Accessible through the "Writing Resources" icon.
  
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute This site offers good suggestions for literacy analysis and revision of papers. Accessible through "Online help for common writing assignments and problems."
  

• Writing in the Job Search Handouts and tutorials on writing on the job, resumes, business letters, memos and much more.
  
• Inkspot a comprehensive writing resource and community.
  
• The Internet Public Library Collections include reference, exhibits, newspapers, and more!