Papers:
Expectations, Guidelines, Advice and Grading
by Jeannine DeLombard and Dan White, Department
of English, University of Puget Sound.
Preparing
to Write An Introduction maintained by
the Writing Center at the University of Richmond.
Research
Papers
In this section of the Purdue University Online
Writing Labsite, we offer you handouts and
exercises on different aspects of research
and the writing of research papers.
Suggestions
for Writing Literature Papers An authoritative
guide from Capital Community College in Hartford.
Writing
an Analytic Research Paper maintained
by the Writing Center at the University of
Richmond.
Writing
English Papers from the Claremont Graduate
University Writing Center
Writing
Papers of Literary Analysis: Some advice for
student writers by Seamus Cooney, Department
of English, Western Michigan University.
Writing
(Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres)
by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
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to Top
The
Literature Review
The
Literature Review
from the Deakin University Library.
The
Literature Review: A Few Tips On Conducting
It
from Writing Support, University of Toronto.
Reviews
of Literature
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing
Center.
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to Top
Pre-writing
ABCs
of the Writing Process: Pre-writing, an
award-winning site maintained by A.E. Lipkewich,
Westmount School, Edmonton, Canada.
Brainstorming
maintained by the Writing Center at the University
of Richmond.
Freewriting:
A way around Writer's Block maintained
by the Writing Center at the University of
Richmond.
Prewriting:
Cubing by Melanie Dawson.
Pre-writing:
Clustering by Melanie Dawson & Joe Essid.
Pre-writing:
Keeping a Journal by Amy Addison.
Prewriting
Questions for Book, Movie, or Play Reviews
from The Write Place Catalogue, St. Cloud
State University, St. Cloud, MN.
Ten
Prewriting Exercises for Descriptive Papers
Helps students writing descriptive papers
or writing descriptive passages in any paper.
The exercises ask students to examine an object,
person, or place from an unusual point of
view. Most of the exercises can be broken
up into a series of questions and presented
as a worksheet for students to complete. From
Traci Gardner, Online Resources Manager, National
Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois.
Ten
Prewiting Exercises for Personal Narratives
Offers invention heuristics to help students
develop their narratives in more details.
The activities include writing sketches for
the people involved in the narrative, scripting
a part of the conversation as a play, and
storyboarding part of the narrative in a comic
strip. From Traci Gardner, Online Resources
Manager, National Council of Teachers of English,
Urbana, Illinois.
Where
to Start a Paper maintained by the Writing
Center at the University of Richmond.
Scholarly
Journal vs. Popular Magazine Articles
Distinguishing
Scholarly from. Non-Scholarly Periodicals
from Moellering Library, Valparaiso University.
What is a peer-reviewed journal and why does
it matter to me? Do you know what it means
when a professor's assignment requires that
you use a scholarly or professional journal
for your information sources?
Scholarly
Journal v. Popular Magazine Articles
How
can you tell the difference between these
two types of periodical articles? A guide
from University of Texas at San Antonio Library.
Scholarly
vs. Popular Articles
from the Library, Southern Oregon University.
Scholarly
vs. Popular Journals
The following guidelines from Carleton College
are meant to assist students in determining
whether a journal is scholarly or popular.
What
Is A Scholarly Journal?
by B. Whitley, Hunter Library, Western Carolina
University. It is often difficult to determine
the difference between the two levels of periodicals
- scholarly and popular. This guide's purpose
is to provide criteria to recognize the different
levels.
