Michael Harvey's The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is a complete online writing manual with an emphasis on "the plain style" of writing. You can use this to find advice on any stage of the writing process, a detailed discussion of the importance of clarity and style, a guide for documenting papers in MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles, and more.
The University of Richmond's Writer's Web: http://writing.richmond.edu/writer/index.html
The Writer's Web provides an easy to use guide to the entire writing process with advice on getting started, focusing your ideas, documenting sources, and editing for style, clarity, and grammar.
Emory University's list of writing resources: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/WC/writing.html
This site contains ideas about writing introductions and conclusions, crafting thesis statements, handling transitions, and using quotations.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html
Purdue's Online Writing Lab offers a guide to general concerns in writing with sections on planning, organizing, revising, and writing about literature.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: http://www.powa.org/This site is another general guide to writing college essays.
Purdue University Writing Lab's Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
Purdue's Writing Lab offers easy to understand explanations of grammatical concepts and practice exercises.
Capital Community College's Guide to Grammar and Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
This site allows you to search a database of interactive explanations and exercises for common grammatical and structural problems.
Grammar NOW!: http://www.grammarnow.com/
Grammar NOW! is a free site where you can submit questions about grammar or look up specific explanations or examples.
The Modern Language Association web site: http://www.mla.org/
This is the official site for MLA style and documentation. At the home page, look for the "MLA Style" link to go to a page of frequently asked questions about formating and documenting sources.
The American Psychological Association Online: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
This is the official site for APA style and documentation. It offers the latest information on citing electronic sources.
The Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/
Chicago documentation style is most often used for footnoting. This page has a listing of frequently asked questions, and under the "Tools" link, there are examples that show how to document most sources in Chicago style.
Bedford/St. Martin's Guide to Research and Documentation Online: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
This site gives some advice on documenting those tricky Internet sources. It covers MLA, APA, Chicago (footnoting), and CBE styles of documentation.
For more information about MLA, APA, or Chicago style documentation, you can browse through the following sites:
Purdue University also offers a general guide to writing research papers, with advice for doing research on the internet, evaluating sources, paraphrasing, and writing an annotated bibliography: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html#writingPurdue University's Guide to MLA Style: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html.
Purdue University's Guide to APA Style: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
The Library of Congress' Learning Page: Tips on citing non-print sources like films, recordings, pictures, and maps. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/cite/index.html
The Capital Community College Guide for Writing Papers in MLA style: http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
The Capital Community College Guide for Writing Research Papers in APA Style: http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm
From The Writing Center, Inc, a guide to business and technical writing (writing proposals, professional email, etc.): http://www.writingcenter.com/index.html
The University of North Carolina's writing center explains the characteristics of scientific writing and includes some practical advice on style, use of objective language, and logic: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sciences.html
Dartmouth College offers some advice on writing in the sciences for non-majors. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/student/sciences/write.html
Purdue University's Guide to Professional writing includes models of resumes, academic applications, letters, reports and general business writing. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/index.html
Bartleby.com allows access to a number of classic reference texts online: Roget's Thesaurus, a number of encyclopedias, Bartlett's quotations, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, and more). Use the selection bar at the top of the Bartleby home page to choose the text you'd like to search, and then type in the word or phrase you'd like to search for. http://www.bartleby.com/
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