Links to Revising and Editing Resources

Revising Sentences

  • Revision: Cultivating a Critical Eye
    • Helpful advice on revision from the Dartmouth Writing Program. Also see the links to Attending to Grammar and Attending to Style.
  • Revising: Finding Common Errors
  • Revising Prose (good tips for sentence clarity)

Paragraphs

  • Paragraphs and Topic Sentences (Indiana University)
  • Guide to Paragraph Structure
    • This file from the University of Maryland will open as a PDF.
  • Considering Structure and Organization (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Editing

  • Commonly Occurring Errors (mostly punctuation) (Dartmouth)
  • OWL Rules for Commas
    • Commas give most every writer trouble, so review the rules here.

Writing in the Disciplines

  • Harvard College Writing Center: Brief Guides to Writing in the Disciplines
    • Download guides to writing in History, English, Philosophy, and Psychology

General

  • The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
    • Lots of useful information about style, structure, sources, and so on.
  • Purdue OWL Writing Help
    • This site has many links that will help you with various aspects of the writing process. See the “Grammar and Mechanics” section in particular.
  • Program for Writing and Rhetoric: General Writing Resources

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