{"id":652,"date":"2011-09-29T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/"},"modified":"2012-11-17T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T17:28:32","slug":"online-writing-guides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/how-to\/online-writing-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"how to improve your writing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>A central goal in our research seminar is to help all of us improve our writing skills. I encourage you to share your drafts with a classmate, our teaching assistant, or a writing associate at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/Academics\/centers\/Writing\/Pages\/Center.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity College Writing Center<\/a>\u00a0(at 115 Vernon Street or satellite locations at Trinity Library or Nutt Center). You may also schedule an appointment with me to discuss your progress.\u00a0In addition, these links will direct you to some of the best open-access online guides for college-level expository writing:<\/p>\n<p>University of Chicago,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/writing-program.uchicago.edu\/resources\/collegewriting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing<\/a>, for general advice<\/p>\n<p>Harvard College Writing Program,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.harvard.edu\/%7Ewricntr\/documents\/Thesis.html\" target=\"_blank\">Developing a Thesis<\/a>, to clarify your main argument<\/p>\n<p>Harvard College Writing Program,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k70847&amp;pageid=icb.page357682\" target=\"_blank\">The Harvard Guide to Using Sources<\/a>, with rich examples in sections on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k70847&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup108986\" target=\"_blank\">Integrating Sources<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k70847&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup106849\" target=\"_blank\">Avoiding Plagiarism<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/isites.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do?keyword=k70847&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup112025\" target=\"_blank\">Citing Sources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trinity College Library,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citesource.trincoll.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">CiteSource: How to cite sources<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bcs.bedfordstmartins.com\/resdoc5e\/\" target=\"_blank\">Research and Documentation Online<\/a>, including sample research papers that illustrate key concepts above<\/p>\n<p>Grammar Girl,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.quickanddirtytips.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing<\/a>, with a search box to distinguish between commonly misspelled words, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Amherst College,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/academiclife\/support\/writingcenter\/resourcesforwriters\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Writing Center&#8217;s Recommended Online Resources<\/a>, for links to other sources<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central goal in our research seminar is to help all of us improve our writing skills. I encourage you to share your drafts with a classmate, our teaching assistant, or a writing associate at the\u00a0Trinity College Writing Center\u00a0(at 115 Vernon Street or satellite locations at Trinity Library or Nutt Center). You may also schedule &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/how-to\/online-writing-guides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how to improve your writing skills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":3534,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/652\/revisions\/2405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/cssp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}