Help with Your Writing

The Learning Center provides peer writing assistants to help you with your writing. Our writing assistants won't proofread your paper for you, but they will help you learn how to avoid mistakes and make your writing better on a number of levels.

The Learning Center has writing assistants in the Learning Center and associated with certain courses. You can also arrange for writing help directly through the Center.

Contact the Learning Center at #2301 or email the Center Director for information on how to get in touch with a peer writing assistant.

The Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum has created student writing handouts on the following topics. These handouts are available in PDF format. You will need an Acrobat Reader to view these files.


	Articles (for ESL students)

	Commas*

	Introductions and Conclusions

	Documenting Sources--MLA*

	Responding Questions

	Upgrade Your Essay*

Note: Handouts marked with an *asterisk ()** should be printed double-sided and then folded into a booklet.

Heidelberg-Specific Sites

turnitin.com provides students with materials to help them to avoid problems with plagiarism.

Moodle is the College's course management software. Some classes will use Moodle for peer responding, group work, paper submissions, etc.

General-Purpose Writing Sites
Online Writing Lab at Purdue has a collection of online writing advice for every part of the writing process.

Texas A&M's Writing Center also has a collection of online advice.

Writing Style
The Elements of Style Bartleby.com has an online version of the 1918 edition of this classic work.

Guide to Grammar and Style Jack Lynch of Rutgers offers a fairly comprehensive discussion of grammar and style issues.

Grammar and Other Picky Things
Grammar Help contains a list of links to a variety of grammar-related exercises and information.

Guide to Grammar and Writing is a complete online grammar handbook. If you're looking for Web-based grammar info, this is a good choice.

Everyday Writer provides information from the handbook and more, including an extensive list of links to other writing-related Web sites.

Online! has a wonderful guide to online documentation, as well as a fabulous list of online resources.

English as a Second Language
Dave's ESL Cafe includes a great deal of information for both teachers and students of English as a second language.