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General Writing Resources

In this section

• General Writing FAQs

  The following FAQs address various general issues concerning writing. The entries in this section are based on frequently asked questions about writing that have been sent to our former team of Purdue OWL Mail Tutors.

Subsections

• Writing Style

• The Writing Process

  These OWL resources will help you with the writing process: pre-writing (invention), developing research questions and outlines, composing thesis statements, and proofreading.

• Academic Writing

  These OWL resources will help you with the types of writing you may encounter while in college. The OWL resources range from rhetorical approaches for writing, to document organization, to sentence level work, such as clarity.

• Common Writing Assignments

  These OWL resources will help you understand and complete specific types of writing assignments, such as annotated bibliographies, book reports, and research papers. This section also includes resources on writing academic proposals for conference presentations, journal articles, and books.

• Mechanics

  These OWL resources will help you with sentence level organization and style. This area includes resources on writing issues, such as active and passive voice, parallel sentence structure, parts of speech, and transitions.

• Grammar

  These OWL resources will help you use correct grammar in your writing. This area includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions.

• Punctuation

  These OWL resources will help you with punctuation, such as using commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens.

• Visual Rhetoric

  These OWL resources will help you understand and work with rhetorical theories regarding visual and graphical displays of information. This area includes resources on analyzing and producing visual rhetoric, working with colors, and designing effective slide presentations.

• Undergraduate Applications

  This section contains an overview of applying to undergraduate institutions, words of advice from undergraduate admissions officials from all over the US, and information on writing effective application essays.

• Graduate School Applications

  This section contains an overview of applying to graduate school, words of advice on writing graduate school profiles to help with your decision making, drafting a graduate school personal statement, and the etiquette of requesting references.

• Personal Correspondence

  The resources in this section are dedicated to written personal correspondence. This section discusses personal letter writing and newsletter writing.

• Community Engaged Writing

  This section includes resources on community engagement as it relates to writing assignments.

• Media File Index

  The resources in this section contain links to all the media files found on the Purdue OWL, such as PowerPoint presentations, sample papers, sample employment documents, vidcasts, podcasts, or Flash movies.