Other Writing Centers/Labs
This tab includes links to resources from other writing centers/labs.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center or UNC Writing Center provides a "Tips and Tools" page for the categories below:
(Comparing/Contrasting, Thesis Statements, Paragraph Development, etc.)
(Conciseness, Verb Tenses, Word Choice, etc.)
(Annotated Bibliography, Application Essay, Scientific Research Report, etc.)
(Art History, History, Philosophy, Sciences, etc.)
Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning provides handouts on a variety of topics, including paragraphs, conclusions, transition words, and quotations.
Purdue Online Writing Lab provides resources for general writing, major-specific writing, and formatting assignments in MLA, APA, and Chicago.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab provides resources for general writing and formatting (MLA, APA, Chicago) but also covers rhetorical styles, argument & critical thinking, online & presentation writing, and grammar essentials.
The Howe Writing Center at Miami University provides information on narrative introductions, scenes in a narrative, and questions to ask for gauging the effectiveness of a narrative.
The Brandeis University Writing Center provides a page dedicated to the topic of hooking the reader in, which includes eight suggestions for how we could open our essay.
Yale College Writing Center provides handouts on a variety of subjects but one in particular we highlight here is on composing an effective title. This handout covers the composing of titles for papers in humanities, sciences, and social sciences as well as for non-academic writing.
Reverse outlining is creating an outline from an already written essay to check its cohesion, organization, and thesis support. The Howe Center for Writing Excellence / Howe Writing Center covers how to create a reverse outline. Additionally, UNC Writing Center has a video on reverse outlining.
