Writing Resources

These OWL resources will help you with the writing process: pre-writing (invention), developing research questions and outlines, composing thesis statements, and proofreading. While the writing process may be different for each person and for each particular assignment, the resources contained in this section follow the general work flow of pre-writing, organizing, and revising. For resources and examples on specific types of writing assignments, please go to our Common Writing Assignments area.

Highly recommend: "[Language] Mechanics are a socio-cultural-rhetorical construct . . . [that] evolve . . . in discourse communities and communities of practice. Involves capitalization, parts of speech, sentence errors, sentence structures . . . ."

Grammarly Premium is provided free to all FNU faculty, staff, and students. Built by the world's leading linguists it offers support as a grammar checker for documents and anywhere you write: email, social media, etc.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) site for all things grammar. EXCELLENT resource for proofreading your writing if you have questions.

This excellent Writing Commons site provides links for punctuation topics, such as how to properly use commas, ellipses, apostrophes, hyphens, and parentheses. It also provides guidance on understanding restrictive and non-restrictive clauses and other sentence constructions that require punctuation.

Tips for writing sentences. Subheadings address common structures for composing sentences.

This Walden University site describes the four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound complex. VIDEO: By scrolling or clicking a link in the left navigation bar, there is a video to demonstrate the sentence types and their elements.

This site describes the basic organization of a paragraph around a topic sentence with supportive text.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab offers extensive resources for writing, including sentence types, and exercises for sentence patterns.

Concise writing is the key to clear communication. Wordiness obscures your ideas and frustrates your reader. Strategies for Eliminating Wordiness.