General Writing Resources

INDISPENSABLE WRITING RESOURCES (Quintessential Careers)
PURDUE'S ONLINE WRITING LAB
RESOURCES FOR WRITING (Allyn & Bacon)
WRITING WORLD
WRITERS ONLINE RESOURCE KIT
WRITER'S WRITE

Business Writing
ABOUT.COM: HOW TO WRITE A MISSION STATEMENT
BULL'S EYE BUSINESS WRITING TIPS  //
   --information overload (KT)
HOW TO DESIGN & WRITE A BASIC BROCHURE (Tom Egelhoff)
   --informative and practical (KT)
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS RESOURCES (Ohio State U)
PROPOSALWRITER.COM (Deborah Kluge)
WRITING FOR BUSINESS (Allyn & Bacon)

Career Communications
ABOUT.COM: RESUMES 101 (includes tips for creating a web resume)
ABOUT.COM: WRITING COVER LETTERS
IEEE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SOC. (Inst. of Electrical Engineers)
WRITING A PERSONAL ESSAY FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL (Colgate U)

Computers, Computer Scientists, & Writing
ADVICE ON RESEARCH & WRITING (primarily for computer scientists) /
APPLYING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SKILLS TO WRITING (SEI videotape)
THE COMPUTER SOCIETY
   --Superior, up-to-date site for computer science majors (JDH)
COMPUTERS & WRITING (M. Powers)
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
COMPUTER WRITING & RESEARCH LAB
WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Courses Online & Web-Enhanced
ADVANCED COMPOSITION (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
ARGUMENTATION (Prof. James Tomlinson)
BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING (U of Texas at Austin)
BUSINESS & TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
BUSINESS WRITING (Prof. Simkins)
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS IN ORGANIZATIONS (Prof. Craig R. Scott)
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (Dr. P. M. Lester)
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY (U of Texas at Austin)
HYPERTEXT COMPOSITION (U of Texas at Austin)
INTERNET NAVIGATOR (U of Utah)
INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING (Cornell U)
NEW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN ORGANIZATIONS (U of Texas)
--course site with good reference resources (JDH)
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS (Prof. Craig R. Scott)
PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION (U of Texas at Austin)
PUBLIC SPEAKING (Prof. Tomlinson)
RHETORIC (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
--informative, user-friendly course site (KL)
TECHNICAL WRITING ON THE INTERNET (Prof. Colbert)
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS (Cal State at Fullerton)
WORLD WIDE WEB DESIGN & PRODUCTION (Cal State at Fullerton)

Document and Graphic Design
Site: DesktopPublishing.com
URL: http://www.desktoppublishing.com/open.html
Contains over 3,900 pages of resources for designing print and electronic documents, with an emphasis on the World Wide Web.

Site: The Design and Publishing Center
URL: http://www.graphic-design.com/
Includes information for fields associated with visual communication. Covers design, typography, graphics, illustration, writing, printing, publishing, advertising, signs, and displays.

Site: The Multimedia Authoring Web
URL: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/
Provides extensive resources on multimedia authoring, including resources on authoring languages, authoring Internet discussion groups, multimedia centers, and commercial producers.

Site: Web Publishing Online Resource
URL: http://www.ashaland.com/webpub/
Covers the basics of World Wide Web publishing, as well as provides a design center with links to resources for creating robust Web documents.

Site: Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
URL: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html
Focuses on design principles for World Wide Web pages, including principles for interface, graphic, and multimedia design.

Editing

EDITING TIPS (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
   --sensible advice on "avoiding gobbledygook" and stating points directly (LR); useful     (GF)
GUIDE TO GRAMMAR & WRITING (Capital CC)
   --excellent and well-indexed (RS); extensive, also includes information about                  presentation and communications skills (JL)
OUR FAVORITE REDUNDANCIES (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING WORDINESS (St. Cloud State U)
   --clear and simple (JL)


Journalistic Writing
FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: A JOURNALIST'S GUIDE
JOURNALISTIC RESOURCES PAGE (Europe)
WRITER'S WRITE: JOURNALISM

Legal Writing
BARGER ON LEGAL WRITING (U of Arkansas at Little Rock)
LEGAL RESEARCH & WRITING (Washburn U)
LEGAL WRITING: AN OVERVIEW (Cornell U) //
   --brief introduction with links (TP)
LEGAL WRITING RESOURCES (D. Jordan, L.A. Mission College)
--useful links (some inactive) (TP)


Letter Writing
BUSINESS LETTERS: ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE (Purdue OWL)
BUSINESS LETTER WRITING BASICS (About.com)
BUSINESS LETTER WRITING: CLAIM ADJUSTMENTS 
SALES LETTER, NOT ANNOUNCEMENT (Sonny Bliss)
   --for business majors only (LR)

Online Writing Labs
DAKOTA STATE U ONLINE WRITING LAB
THE ONLINE WRITERY (U of Missouri)
ONLINE WRITING CENTER CONSORTIUM
ONLINE WRITING LAB (Purdue University)
U.A.L.R. ONLINE WRITING LAB
WRITING & TECHNOLOGY WEB LINKS (U of Oregon)

Oral Communications
EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS (U of Kansas)
--excellent resource (but some applications for UK students only) (SR)
ORAL COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT MODEL (PDF)
ORAL PRESENTATION ADVICE (Mark D. Hill)
SPEECHES ONLINE (Armstrong Atlantic State U)
VIRTUAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT (U of Kansas)
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION ASSISTANT (U of Kansas)

Public Relations
ABOUT.COM: PUBLIC RELATIONS
PR & MARKETING NETWORK (PR News)
PUBLIC RELATIONS BASICS (About.com)
  --informative (LR), comprehensive (KL)
PUBLIC RELATIONS SOCIETY OF AMERICA 
PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALISTS (U.S. Dept. of Labor)

Research
A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO RESEARCH WITH THE WWW (Craig Branham)
THE INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
   --ample collection of reference works and literary criticism (SR)
SEARCH ENGINES & RESOURCES (Allyn & Bacon)

Technical Writing
ABOUT.COM: TECHNICAL WRITING RESOURCES  //
INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS (ISTC)
MASTERPIECE MEDIA: INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE
ONLINE TECHNICAL WRITING TEXTBOOK (David A. McMurrey)
SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (STC)  
TECHNICAL WRITING HANDBOOK (Ronald B. Standler)
TECHNICAL WRITING HELP (U of Helsinki)

Writing for the Web
ABOUT.COM: E-BOOKS & E-PUBLISHING

ABOUT.COM: WEB WRITING
--useful links to style guides but site is hard to navigate (CR)

BE SUCCINCT!  WRITING FOR THE WEB (Jakob Nielsen)
--concise and insightful (JB)

COLUMBIA GUIDE TO ONLINE STYLE

COMPUTER SCIENCE & WRITING WEB PAGES (Harold Eddleman)
--Out of date (1997) with excessive text and focus on farming (FM)

EDITING A WEB SITE (Communication Circle)
--extensive reference site with practical tools, sound advice, current links (JDH)

EFFECTIVE WRITING FOR THE WEB (Josh Smith)

EVALUATING INFORMATION FOUND ON THE INTERNET
--comprehensive, with clear definitions of evaluative criteria (CR)

EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES (Allyn & Bacon)
EVALUATING WEB SITES: CRITERIA & TOOLS

THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY (Susan Beck)
--excellent starting point for web novices with good documentation examples (SR); informative but difficult to navigate (website evaluation guidelines appear at "Criteria") (JB)

HOW TO WRITE HTML FILES
--jargon makes this difficult for novices (KL); useless (JB)

NCSA BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HTML
--excellent resource (JB)

RESOURCES FOR EVALUATING WEB SITES (Auburn U)
WEB AUTHORING RESOURCES (Allyn & Bacon)
WHAT IS GOOD HYPERTEXT WRITING? (Jutta Deggener)
WRITING EFFECTIVE WEB PAGES (Joe Landsberger)

WRITING FOR THE WEB (Charlie Morris)
--visually pleasing with ample links (CR)

WRITING FOR THE WEB (John Morkes and Jacob Nielsen) //

Writing in the Humanities
WRITING IN THE HUMANITIES (Allyn & Bacon)

Writing in the Sciences & in Mathematics
ADVICE FOR BEGINNING SCIENCE WRITERS (NASW)
--documented discussion (May 14, 1997) on how to get started as a science writer (AMO)

A BRIEF GUIDE TO WRITING HOMEWORK SOLUTIONS (Richard A. Holmgren)

CHEMISTRY RESEARCH GUIDE (Roger Williams U)
--links page (including online journals) (SM)

EVERYDAY CHEMICAL REACTIONS: PROMOTING INTEREST THROUGH WRITING
--emphasis on writing to learn rather than on learning to write (DJ)

A GENERAL GUIDE TO SCIENCE WRITING (J. Garratt)
--basics of good science writing with list of errors to avoid and steps to writing more clearly (AMO)

A FEW GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD WRITING IN CHEMISTRY (Dr. Reeve) //
--basic, no links (SW)

GUIDE TO WRITING IN BIOLOGY (Portland State U)
--basic advice for beginners (DJ)

GUIDES FOR BETTER SCIENCE RESEARCH, WRITING, & PRESENTATION
--writing guide with list of research resources (AMO)

GUIDE TO RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY (Georgetown U)
--good starting point for undergraduate researchers (SW)

RESEARCH GUIDE: CHEMISTRY (Boston U)
--useful to all students seeking a better understanding of chemistry (TD)

SCIENTIFIC REASONING & WRITING IN CHEMISTRY (Cain Project)
--test-taking skills (SW)

SOME THOUGHTS ON WRITING MATHEMATICS (Doug Kurtz)

WRITING A BIOLOGY REVIEW PAPER (Dr. Jane Ellis)
WRITING BIOLOGY LABORATORY REPORTS (J. Pechenik)
WRITING GUIDELINES FOR ENGINEERING & SCIENCE STUDENTS (Virginia Tech) ////
WRITING IN BIOLOGY (Westfield State C)

WRITING IN CHEMISTRY (Lynchburg C) //
--adequate principles and examples; lab report format differs from one used at AASU (JL)

WRITING IN MATHEMATICS (Westfield State C)
WRITING IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES (Allyn & Bacon)

WRITING IN THE SCIENCES (UNC at Chapel Hill) ///
--basic questions that every scientist must ask him- or herself during the writing process; also shows simple steps to write a more positive, persuasive paper (TD)

WRITING MECHANISMS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (Linda M. Sweeting)



Writing in the Social Sciences
WRITING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (Allyn & Bacon)
WRITING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (Dartmouth C)


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