Thursday, March 13, 2008

Help with Writing Papers


Credit for image: The logo at the site for SNL's Writing Guide


The link below will take you to a helpful site from the School for New Learning (SNL) at De Paul University, Chicago, about the stages in the writing process. The site is interactive and can be helpful to any student who wants assistance with the stages of writing a paper from invention through to revision, and makes clear that the writing process can move back and forth among the various stages of inventing, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing. The site has an excellent graphic organizer to show writers the recursive nature of the writing process. In addition, it provides examples of how different writers approach the writing process, offers a chart comparing novice and experienced writers, and contains links to many wonderful sites that have handouts on the writing process. Check out the site, and let me know what you think. If anyone wants to develop a similar interconnected sequence for our CAE website, please let me (Judy) know. But in the meantime, please do post your comments on the usefulness of the site. Note the terms on the graphic organizer are hyperlinks, and the various links to other websites are worth checking out. In addition to the link to the main page, I have included the link to the page with the annotated list of useful websites for "Writing Help." You might want to bookmark that specific page, as well as ask Kathy, who is editing our CAE website, to update our own page with links to useful websites.

Writing Guide

Writing Help
with lists of links on these topics: