Important Links from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Select the topic you need from the four major headings: Planning/Starting to Write, Effective Writing, Revising/Editing/Proofreading, and Types/Genres of Writing.
The entry on Writing about Fiction, under Types/Genres of Writing, is especially useful for English classes.
All of the documentation guidelines you need. See especially “Your Works Cited List” and “Handling Quotations in Your Text.”
A guide to getting the most out of the tangled Web.
Select from several on-line writing workshops, including Employment Workshops (how to write resumes) and Research Workshops (how to write research papers).
Detailed resources page for business, technical, and professional writing.
Stuff you should know.
Detailed resource pages and grammar exercises.