Online Writing Guides: General Resources

  • The Writing Center at UCLA has links to information about genre specific writing, polishing your writing, and many other essential aspects of academic writing.

http://gsrc.ucla.edu/gwc/resources/


  • The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has resources specifically targeted for ESL students, including writing guides, vocabulary tools, online dictionaries, and more.

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/esl/resources/


  • Monash University offers a wide range of materials, including a section on literature reviews. Some of it is more general, other parts are subject-specific.

http://www.monash.edu/rlo


  • Organizing your Social Science Research Paper is a research guide from the University of Southern California.

http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide


  • This website from Texas A&M has PowerPoint slides with information on many topics, including writing abstracts, literature reviews, and dissertation proposals.

http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/Classroom-Workshops/Graduate/Abstracts