The Author's Note (PDF)

Evergreen-Specific Writing

• Evaluations
• Academic Statement
• Seminar Papers
  • The Seminar or Response Paper (PDF)
  • Seminar Papers: Conversations with Your Mind (PDF) - Calen Swift (Inkwell 3)
  • Writing Seminar Papers (short) (PDF) - Cameron Withey (Inkwell 7)

Stages of the Writing Process

• Getting Started/Brainstorming
  • Beingstorming (PDF) - Grant Miller (Inkwell 2)
  • Beginning Your Inquiry (PDF)
  • Six Basic Claim Types (PDF)
  • Outlines and Organization (PDF)
• Drafting
  • Drafting: How to Ride a Dinosaur and Look Good Doing It (PDF) - Ian Ettinger (Inkwell 2)
• Revision
  • The Orbital Region: Re-envisioning Revision (PDF) - Dory Nies (Inkwell 2)
  • Strategies for Essay Revision (PDF)
• Editing
  • Mt. Edit (PDF) - Alejandra Abreu (Inkwell 2)
• Proofreading
  • Becoming Reader (PDF) - Meghan McNealy (Inkwell 2)

Research

• A Research Strategy (PDF)
• Using Your Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (PDF)
• Conducting Research (Purdue OWL)
• Writing with Statistics (Purdue OWL)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue OWL)

Science Writing

• A Research Strategy (PDF)
• Researching a Scientific Topic: Finding and Using Sources (PDF)
• Strategies for Critical Reading of Technical Writing: Primary Literature (PDF)
• Technical Language (PDF)
• Standard Format of Primary Scientific Literature (PDF)
• Title and Abstract: Your Paper in a Nutshell (PDF)
• Putting Scientific Work in Context: Introductions (PDF)
• Methods: A Recipe for Science (PDF)
• Results and Discussion (PDF)
• References and General Format (PDF)
• Peer Review Form for Scientific Writing (PDF)

Grammar

• What's in a Sentence? Getting to Know the Parts of Speech (PDF)
• Tenses and Conjugation (PDF)
• Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs (PDF)
• Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements (PDF)
• Commas 101 (PDF)
• The Complex Sentence: Correcting Fragments (PDF)
• The Compound Sentence: Correcting Run-Ons and Comma Splices (PDF)
• The Compound-Complex Sentence (PDF)
• Parallel Structure (PDF)
• Using Articles (Purdue OWL)

English Language Learners (ELL)

The best way to learn is to practice grammar on your own. Each of these links takes you to a page where you can choose the grammar area in which you want additional practice. Try practicing the same grammatical rule on each of the sites over the course of a week, focusing on a different rule each week.

• UsingEnglish.com - Learn English (ESL) Online
  • This comprehensive website offers quizzes, handouts, activities, and more for both learners and teachers of English.
• 1-language.com: ESL Quizzes
  • This site provides several quizzes on different grammar rules. Simply click the link and take the quiz. Also available on another area of the site are whole texts of various works of literature, accessible by clicking "ESL Reading Library" on the main page.
• The Grammar Aquarium: EFL/ESL Grammar Notes and Exercises
  • This link provides many quizzes for ELL students and you can either take the quiz online or print the questions out so you can write on it. Along with many of the quizzes the site provides links to notes on the grammatical area you're practicing.
• eslgold.com: Grammar
  • This site has tons of quizzes which are divided by level of English proficiency. A student may have to search for a bit, but the abundance of quizzes on various subjects makes this a great resource. The link provided takes you to the "Grammar" area, and from there you can either take quizzes or do exercises.

Citations

• General
  • Why We Cite (PDF) - Michael Radelich & Ladai Dama (Inkwell 3)
  • On-Cite Construction: Properly Using Citation to Build a Sound, Critical Essay (PDF) - Michael Radelich (Inkwell 7)
  • Style Manuals by Discipline (University of Maryland library) - Choosing a style manual for your subject, field, or discpline
  • Research and Documentation Online (Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister of Bedford/St. Martin's) - Comprehensive resource for finding and documenting sources
• Modern Language Association (MLA) (Purdue OWL)
• American Psychological Association (APA) (Purdue OWL)
• Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) (Purdue OWL)
• Council of Science Editors (CSE) (Bedford/St. Martin's) - Sciences; formerly CBE

On writing effective titles: That Feeling of Entitlement (PDF)

Creative writing: Using Metaphors in Creative Writing (Purdue OWL)