Online Resources

Writing Center Tutorial Videos

 

Using Quotations: How to give credit & establish authority in your paper

 

The role of reading in Pitt's Seminar in Composition Course: 

 

General Writing Help

Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) provides explanations and exercises for punctuation and other issues. They also offer a section on World Englishes and a guide to subject-specific writing.

Excelsior College's Online Writing Lab has developed a useful and comprehensive set of pages related to writing.

By visiting writingcommons.org, you can use a peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.

How to use gender-inclusive guidelines (developed here at Pitt) when you write.

 

Proofreading and Editing

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill offers a guide to proofreading and editing strategies.

 

Citation and Avoiding Plagiarism

Hillman Library offers a set of links on various citation styles (including MLA, APA, Chicago, and others). ULS also offers workshops in EndNote, Mendeley, and Zotero, software that can handle your citations for you.

Pitt's English Department has published a great page on understanding and avoiding plagiarism.

 

Support for English as a Second Language Writers

Dave's ESL Café offers advice and links for ESL students.

 

Digital Composing

Digital Writing 101 offers a lot of advice and resources for composing digitally.

 

Creative Writing

LitReactor offers advice for punctuating quotation.