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Writing Guide: The Writing Process

Guide to assist writing center instructors, tutors, and students.

Writing Exercises (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Critical thinking exercises to help students as they go through the writing process.
Handouts (The University of Texas at Austin)
Writing resources from over 15 years of helping students. Includes writing basics, grammar, style, research papers, writing guides, and more.
Tips & Tools (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Large collection of handouts to assist students with writing. Topics range from the basics of writing a paper to writing specific assignments in a specific field of study.

They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein; Russel Durst
Call Number: 808.042 G758t

ISBN: 9780393912753

Publication Date: 2011-11-15

"They Say / I Say demystifies academic writing by identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said ("they say") to set up one's own argument ("I say"). The book also provides templates to help students make these key moves in their own writing."
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing by Sylvan Barnet; Hugo Bedau
Call Number: 808.0427 C8697

ISBN: 0312459874

Publication Date: 2007-07-09

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but thorough guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adopted Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it draws on the authors' dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and rigorous critical thinking. It helps students move from critical thinking to argumentative and researched writing.