General writing
* Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
"an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook..."
* Language and Learning Online
Tutorials to help you write at the university level. Sections include writing essays, reports, postgraduate literature reviews, editing, and what make a good essay and review. Especially helpful: Writing in subject areas with annotated essays! Monash University, Australia
* Writer's Handbook
Includes stages of the writing process, common types of assignments, proposals, dissertations, and research, reviews and scientific reports. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Grammar
* Grammar & Style Notes
alphabetical listing of grammatical topics and explanations
* Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
* Guide to Grammar and Writing
Sections on Word & Sentence, Paragraph, Essay and research papers, grammar and quizzes, etc. Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation
Organizing the Essay and its Process
* OWL, Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
Excellent site for the writing process: Discovering ~ Organizing ~ Revising ~ Editing with a list of handouts organized by category.
* The Writing Process
very comprehensive Writing Center, University of Richmond, Virginia
* Graphic Organizers
the basic spidering approach with lots of graphics North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
* Graphic Organizers
types are graphically presented San Diego County Office of Education, California
* Graphic Organizers
excellent indexed grid by types (can be copied for educational purposes) Greg Freeman, Bend, Oregon
Writing the Essay
* Essay Writing Tips
parts of an essay, how to write an essay, kinds of essays Writing Den by TestDen
* Writing an Effective Expository Essay
takes you step-by-step through the process. Our Study Guides page
Editing the Essay
* Editing Paragraphs
list to check
Evaluating your writing:
* Writing to Persuade|
* in easy-to-understand language Kid Language Writing Rubrics
written so eighth graders would understand
Tools for writing
* Roget's Thesaurus
Citing Web Sites
* Study Guides' automated process in various styles
* Columbia Online style for citing web research
* Citing from the Internet: APA Style
Accessible Website design, references:
Bobby WorldWide http://www.cast.org/bobby/
is a tool for Web page authors.
It helps them identify changes to their pages so users with disabilities can more easily use their Web pages.
Dr. Watson http://watson.addy.com/
Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet. You give it the URL of your page and Watson will get a copy of it directly from the web server. Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Web Accessibility
a paper (.pdf file) discussing how the W3C accessibility guidelines are used to improve performance in search engines. It points out how to use each checkpoint and is an attempt to persuade optimizers to make the W3C guidelines standard practice in SEO.
Great Britain's Royal National Institute for the Blind
http://www.rnib.org.uk/digital/hints.htm
Human Factors International on accessibility:
http://www.humanfactors.com/accessibility/default.asp
National Cancer Institute's Web Design and Usability Guidelineshttp://www.usability.gov/guidelines/
Accessible web design articles by Carmen Mardiros
WebAIM Web Accessibility In Mind
W3C's HTML validator validator.w3.org
The W3C validator is free to use, up to date, and an official source for standards specifications. Checks cross-platform HTML and removes proprietary browser tricks from your site.
Web Design Group
http://www.htmlhelp.com/design/accessibility/tips.htm
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