General Resources for Writing Across the
Curriculum
The following list of general writing links can assist you with
every step of the writing process.
Webster's Dictionary Online
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online
Visual Thesaurus by Plumb Design
Thesaurus.com
Citation and Documentation Styles
CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style
Writing On and With the Internet
This site from Purdue University (IN) offers guides to search
engines and writing resources available on the Internet.
A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
This site from St. Louis University (MO) provides resources for
research on the Internet as well as source articles related to
evaluating material found on the Web.
Guide to
Grammar and Writing
Capital Community College (CT) has this comprehensive guide to all your grammar questions.
The
English Pages
The English Pages contains original resources and material for users of all Longman English texts in the fields of composition, literature, developmental skills, and technical writing.
The English Pages Citation Guide
In this online guide, written by world-renowned electronic
stylist Janice Walker, you can learn how to find, evaluate, and use
Web sources in your writing and how to cite them.
The Information Stop
This site from George Mason University (VA) contains printable handouts on grammar and punctuation, the complete writing process, and guides to specialized writing, such as writing about literature, to specific writing forms, including the business letter or the reading journal, and to specific writing situations, such as writing in groups.
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Discipline-Specific Resources for Writing
Across the Curriculum
These Internet links will take you to Web sites that provide additional information and resources pertaining to the material presented in each book in the Short Guide Series. From a general overview of writing about each subject to more discipline-specific tips, these sites from universities and organizations will complement the information found in each text. Click on a book title below to go directly to the information relevant to that title.
A Short Guide to Writing about Art
Writing about Art and Art History
This guide from the University of Rochester provides commonly accepted conventions governing citations, usage, and editing.
Art Theory Essay Writing Guide
This comprehensive guide to writing essays in art history from
Newcastle University (Australia) includes links to four exemplary
student essays.
A Practical Guide to Writing about Art
Towson State University (MD) professor Susan Isaac’s guide
(downloaded to Adobe Acrobat Reader or as a .doc file) for art and
art history students on writing academic essays in the
discipline.
Clement
Greenberg’s Critiques
Clement Greenberg was one of the great art critics of the twentieth century. At this site, examine some of his critiques as well as some writing about Greenberg himself.
Art History Paper Writing Pages
These links from Skidmore College (NY) guide you through the process of writing papers on art and art history.
Writing the Art History Paper
This site from Dartmouth helps you create an argument about what you see in art. Types of papers plus some sample papers are found here.
Internet Art Resources
Maintained by Chris Witcombe at Sweet Briar College (WV), this links you to a compilation of Internet art resources. Maintained by Chris Witcombe at Sweet Briar College (WV).
Chicago Manual of Style Guide
This guide from Ohio State is based on the The Chicago Manual of Style Rev. 14th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
In Other
Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
This Summer Institute of Linguistics's site helps you explore the terminology of the humanities. The link labeled "A Glossary of the Humanities" provides an alphabetical listing of humanities terms including art and critical approaches to art. /p>
Tips for Writing a Scholarly Paper
This brief guide offers basic tips to remember when writing any scholarly paper. A reference to the text is mentioned.
Writing and Art
Writing was art during the ancient Egyptian civilization. This site from the British Museum shows examples of writing on display at the museum.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Biology
Style Guides
CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style:
Guide to Writing in Biology
This site from Portland State University (OR) provides a general guide to writing in biology.
Writing Biology Lab Reports
This general guide, from the University of Richmond (VA), offers tips for writing most basic biology laboratory reports.
Anticipating (and Avoiding) Common Writing Problems in
Biology
This site from Villanova University (PA) summarizes common writing problems extracted from A Short Guide to Writing About Biology.
Sample Biology Papers
Sample papers, lecture notes, and links to other biology resources can be found here at Robert Gross's BIO4 site at Dartmouth University (NH).
Writing about Biology from the Johns Hopkins
University Newsletter
This article from the December 1999 newsletter from Johns Hopkins University (MD) illustrates the importance of writing in the science of biology.
Bibliography of Biology Writing Resources
This site from Eastern Illinois University's Writing Across the Curriculum program lists resources related to biology writing.
Writing a Science Paper
This site from a biology course at Wesleyan University (CT)
provides good tips on writing a science paper.
Biology Editors Resources
This site provides a short list of practical resources for scientists who are preparing journal articles in biology and medicine.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Chemistry
Writing in Chemistry
From Lynchburg College (VA), this site offers a few general characteristics of good writing in chemistry.
Articles on Writing in Science
This site, from Indiana University, lists article summaries and citations on writing in the sciences.
ACS Style Sheet
If you are documenting sources in your paper, refer to this ACS Style Sheet.
Internet Resources for Chemistry
This site at the University of Maryland provides comprehensive links to chemistry education, discussion groups, on-line conferences, and many other aspects of chemistry.
Scientific Reasoning and Writing in Chemistry
This site from Rice University (TX) will help you master strategies for reasoning, problem-solving, and exam writing in chemistry.
Writing the Chemistry Paper
This site from Dartmouth (NH) helps you create lab notebooks. Some sample notebooks are found here.
Writing Guide for Chemistry
This site from Oregon State University offers guidelines for writing reports and presenting data. Other links take you to ethical issues in writing and chemistry writing samples.
General Guide to Science Writing
This article, from Education in Chemistry on the University of Southampton (UK) web site, covers three fundamental aspects to good science writing: planning the structure, thinking about your reader, and choosing your words.
Template for Writing Chemistry Laboratory
Reports
Steven Neshyba's template for lab reports (University of Puget Sound--WA) is a brief set of guidelines for first-year students
Chemistry Resource Centre
This site from Mohawk College (Ontario) offers many links to chemistry sites by specific disciplines (e.g., organic, inorganic, metals and minerals, and so forth).
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A Short Guide to Writing about Film
Chicago Manual of Style Guide
Guidelines for Writing about Film
These comprehensive guidelines from Sandhills Community College (NC) will help you structure your paper about film.
Questions to Consider When Writing about Film
This site from the Writing Center at George Mason University (VA) lists questions to consider when writing about film.
Writing the Film Paper
This site from Dartmouth University provides a list of general characteristics common to papers written about film.
Writing about Film
This site from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) is largely devised from material in the text.
Researching and Writing About Film
This multimedia site from Western Carolina University (NC) offers tips on researching, writing, citing and documenting sources, and lists other stylistic elements of writing about film.
How to Read a Film
This site from the University of Washington, Bothell, explains methods of analyzing the language of film.
Writing in the Dark: The Difference Between Journalism and
Criticism
Ray Carney's essay takes an interesting look at writing about film.
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A Short Guide to Writing about History
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History
This guide from Bowdoin College (ME) provides comprehensive tips on history studies and writing.
Writing History Papers
This site from University of Southern California’s
College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences outlines the steps you
should consider when writing about history.
Tips on Writing History
This site from the National Council for History Education offers writing tips from the April 2000 issue of History Matters!
A Guide to Writing Better History Essays
This study guide from the University of Adelaide (Australia) provides step-by-step directions for writing essays in history.
Writing Yourself Into the Disciplines
This interview with John Belshaw, professor of history at the University College of the Cariboo (BC), examines writing requirements as well as answers many of those nagging questions that students have about writing in history.
Writing Guide for History
This site served by Boston University's Department of History summarizes the conventions used in writing about history.
WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue
This link connects you to a comprehensive virtual catalog for history maintained at the University of Kansas.
Internet History Resources
Served by Rhodes College (TN), this link takes you to a compilation of Internet history resources.
History Resources on the Web
This site lists Iowa State's choices of the best current resources in history and provides links to other web sites.
History–Bibliographies
This site from James Madison University (VA) lists bibliographies useful in historical research.
Chicago Manual of Style Guide
This guide from Ohio State is based on the The Chicago Manual of Style Rev. 14th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
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A Short Guide to Writing about Literature
Writing About Literature: Some Helpful Things to
Know
This site at Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
offers constructive advice about genre-specific writing.
Writing a Literature Paper: Guidelines, Suggestions,
Strategies
University of Michigan-Dearborn's comprehensive site for writing about literature focuses on both content and structure.
Explication vs. Analysis
This page from Kansas State differentiates between explication and analysis.
Literary Criticism as a Tool for Interpreting
Literature
This site, developed by Steven Hale in the Humanities Division at DeKalb College in Georgia, offers an overview of literary criticism and its place in studying and writing about literature.
How To Find Literary Criticism
These collected critical evaluations from St. Mary's University's Blume Library contain portions of critical discussions about authors and their literary works.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
This site from the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University includes information on different literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
Literary Criticism Databases
Chattahoochee Technical College's compilation of literary criticism resources offers extensive full-text information on authors and their works.
A Glossary of Literary Criticism
From alazon to thematic, this glossary will help you define terms used in literary criticism.
Explorations in Non-Fiction: The History of the
Essay
This transcript of a roundtable discussion on the history of the essay covers Montaigne, the "father of essays" to late-twentieth century essay writing.
Writing about Fiction
Purdue's OWL site offers three techniques for reading fiction actively and critically. A close should not be quick and superficial, but requires time and careful reflection. A close reading will eliminate a lot of the frustration and anxiety that comes when you begin to develop your thesis.
Writing about Drama
This site from Furman University suggests ways to write about
drama that is read as well as drama that is seen in
performance.
Reading Poetry and Writing about Poetry
The first step in writing about poetry is in understanding the poetry. This University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center page goes step-by-step through the process or reading a poem critically.
Writing about Poetry
This site served by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers general advice on writing about poetry.
Writing about Film
This extensive site from Sandhills Community College provides guidelines for writing about film as well as sample film reports.
A Writer's Practical Guide to MLA Documentation
This site will help you with MLA citation and documentation formatting.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Music
Music Information Resources
This list of resources from the University of California at Santa Barbara can help you locate music information.
Music's Invitation to Writers: Mixing Reason and Emotion
Here you may find Scot Grogan's essay about listening and analyzing music for what it does, not what it is.
Writing the Music Paper
This site from Dartmouth College (NH) provides tips for writing a music paper.
Writing about Music
This site from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) suggests ways of listening to music critically and writing about it.
Writing Resources for Musicians
This site from a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point offers helpful resources for musicians and students who wish to improve their writing skills.
How to Be a Music Critic or Just Sound Like One
These tips from a former teaching assistant at Bowling Green State University will help you write about music more critically.
Speaking of Music: Explorations in the Language of Music
Criticism
Gregory Erickson's study of music criticism may be helpful in determining your approach to writing about it.
A Brief Guide to Writing about Music
This site from Indiana University offers some good points about music writing. Also included are several poor examples of writing (e.g., play-by-play, colloquial) that you should be avoided.
Writing a Music Business Plan
Peter Spellman's site details how to write a successful business plan for the music industry that begins with a vision/mission and ends with a succinct goal.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Science
Style Guides
CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style:
Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
In these guidelines from Virginia Tech, you will find discussions of several common documents in engineering writing and scientific writing.
Articles on Writing in Science
This site, from Indiana University, lists article summaries and citations on writing in the sciences.
General Guide to Science Writing
This article, from Education in Chemistry on the University of Southampton (UK) web site, covers three fundamental aspects to good science writing: planning the structure, thinking about your reader, and choosing your words.
UniSci
UniSci, the first science daily news site on the Web, remains the only one that selects stories based on their scientific importance. UniSci fosters fine science writing.
Writing in Science and Mathematics
This site from Grand Valley State University (MI) provides a list of general characteristics common to papers written about science and mathematics. An additional link takes you to a portfolio of sample student papers.
Writing in Medicine and Science for English as a Second
Language (ESL) Students
This site by Jack Kimball in Japan helps ESL students with writing in medicine and the sciences.
Writing about Science from the Johns Hopkins
University Newsletter
This article from the December 1999 newsletter from Johns Hopkins University (MD) illustrates the importance of writing in the sciences.
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A Short Guide to Writing about Social
Sciences
Chicago Manual of Style Guide
APA (American Psychological Association) Style
Writing in the Social Sciences
This site from Grand Valley State University (MI) provides a list of general characteristics common to papers written about the social sciences. An additional link takes you to a portfolio of sample student papers.
Web Sites on Writing the Social Sciences Paper
This site from the University of Minnesota provides extensive links to sites related to writing in the social sciences.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
ASSIA provides a comprehensive reference database on modern society and its problems. Aspects of law, business, national politics, and, in particular, local government are included. The database provides strong emphasis on the applied aspects of social sciences.
Writing about Anthropology
This site from the University of California at San Diego offers guidelines for writing papers in anthropology.
Writing
about Statistics
Served by RobertNiles.com, this site offers some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know.
Writing an Economics Term Paper
This site from Wabash College (IN) provides a thorough guide to writing in economics.
Research and Writing in Sociology
This site from Skidmore College (NY) provides tips on writing in sociology along with links to sociological web sites.
Writing in Political Science
From Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada), this site supplies you with guidelines for writing papers in political science.
How to Use the American Statistics Index
The American Statistics Index (ASI) catalogs statistics in government documents issued by federal agencies.
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