Writing Links for Transfer Students
These resources are intended to supplement the work you do in and out
of the classroom to improve your writing. If you need help in a particular
class, you should arrange to meet your instructor to discuss your work.
Your instructor may also recommend that you sign up at one of the Writing
Centers. We hope that you will take advantage of all the resources
available to you, including some of those offered on this page. And
don't forget that the best information about writing for Rutgers courses
is available at The
Writing Program's own web site. (These links will open in a new
window).
Grammar Guides
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Guide
to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch (Rutgers, Newark) provides
an alphabetically organized set of short articles on common grammatical
and stylistic writing errors.
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Guide
to Grammar and Writing by Charles Darling (Capital Community
College) offers definitions of grammatical terms and illustrations
of common errors.
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The
New St. Martin's Handbook offers a guide
to the 20 Most Common Errors and excellent links to Web Sites for
Writers.
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LEO:
Literacy Education Online from St. Cloud State University is
organized in FAQ format to answer typical questions students have
during the writing process.
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Writer's
Workshop: Grammar Handbook from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning
parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements,
and common problems of usage."
The Writing Process
We've sorted through many web sites about college writing and chosen
some of the best, but even in the sites listed below, some of the advice
about college writing is very basic, and some conflicts with the approach
to writing used by the Rutgers Writing Program. You can use these sites
as supplemental resources, but please follow your writing instructor's
advice about how to write a college paper. You will be evaluated based
on the standards at Rutgers, not according to the information you find
on these web sites.
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LEO:
Literacy Education Online from St. Cloud
State University is organized in FAQ format to answer typical questions
students have during the writing process.
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Writing
Guides from Colorado State University
are helpful for quick advice.
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Writer's
Handbook from the University of Wisconsin includes a useful
section on Academic Writing, which contains information on writing
about literature as well as a section on Scientific
Reports with a sample lab report.
More Writing Links
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Purdue's
OWL is the best known online writing lab and offers both resources
for writers and online support to students (with priority to Purdue
students, of course).
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Resources
for Writers from Sharpwriter.com has a very complete collection
of writing links and other useful web references, though you have
to put up with a bit of advertising.
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Writer's
Workshop: Self-Help Documents from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign focuses on sites with handouts that guide students
through steps in the writing process.
ESL and Vocabulary Help
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The
American University is an informative site for international
students new to American Universities, and explains how the American
university system may be quite different from foreign systems. The
site also describes Rutgers University's Academic Services and Career
Services and provides an essential Glossary of Academic Terms for
foreign students.
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Dave's
ESL Cafe by Dave Sperling is a fun site
with forums, news, and puzzles specifically for second language
learners of English.
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English
as a Second Language by Rong-Chang Li
has the most extensive links of any ESL site and "is a starting
point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web."
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Learning
Resource Centers (LRCs) provide tutoring and study skills services,
workshops, writing assistance, and course support for all Rutgers
University students.
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Program
in American Language Studies (PALS) at Rutgers University offers
short courses that prepare non-native speakers of English for academic
and professional work in American English, and for successful adjustment
to life in the United States. PALS classes are designed to prepare
international students for university, community college, or technical
school matriculation. PALS also serves community members who wish
to improve their English language skills.
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The
Virtual CALL Library of the University of Sussex offers access
to a diverse collection of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
software scattered across the Internet and available for downloading.
Using the Internet
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