How to Prepare for a Visit to the Writing Center
Writing Process
Reading and Note-Taking
Tips for Active/Critical Reading
Invention / Pre-Writing
Decoding an Assignment – What Now?
Brainstorming: How to Get Started
Outlining (from The Writing Center @ UNC Chapel Hill)
Drafting / Composing
Getting Unstuck: Strategies for Overcoming Writer’s Block
Advice on Quoting and Paraphrasing
Strategies for Effective Conclusion Writing
Paragraph Development (from The Writing Center @ UNC Chapel Hill)
Citation and Style
APA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Chicago Formatting and Style Guide
Revision
Reverse Outlining (an Organization Strategy)
Guides to Various Genres of Writing
Statement of Purpose (NOT Personal Statement)
Grammar and Mechanics
Teacher-Created Advanced Grammar Worksheets
Verb Tenses, Aspects, and Moods
Subjunctive Situations Overview
Articles
University of Minnesota Center for Writing Articles Chart
Count/Noncount Nouns
Count and Noncount Nouns: Basic Rules
Collective Nouns
Common Collective Nouns and Guidelines
Collocations (Words that are commonly found together)
Just the Word: Corpus-Based Search Engine of Collocations (video tutorial)
Word and Phrase (video tutorial)
Transition Words and Phrases
Guide to Transition Words and Sentence Samples
Transitions and Transitional Devices
Parallelism
Basic and useful explanation of parallelism
Prepositions
Academic/Abstract Prepositions Exercise
How to Choose Prepositions with Abstract Nouns
Other Writing Centers’ Resources
George Mason University Quick Guides
James Madison University Guides and Handouts
Open Educational Database Resources
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Excelsior College Online Writing Lab
University of North Carolina Writing Center
The Writing Center @ UVa 
