Fayetteville Technical Community College

Online Writing Lab

FTCC Writer's Resources
On-Campus Help, Library Resources
Source-Based Writing
Writing Guides, Finding Topics and Sources, Plagiarism, Copyright, Evaluating Sources
Documentation Guides
All Styles
Essay Writing
How to Write an Essay, Sample Essays, Published Essays
Writing Formats
Essay Writing, Fiction Writing, Poetry, Technical Writing
Writer's Resources
General Resources, Reference Tools, Online Writing Centers, Grammar, Mechanics, and Style
Language
Linguistics, Rhetoric, Words and Word Games
Magazines, EZines, Journals
Magazines, Ezines, Professional Journals

FTCC Writers' Resources

  On-Campus Help
  • Learning Lab
    		•    Library Resources
    Paul H. Thompson Library
  • Distance Education
  • Info & Requests
  • Electronic Databases
  • Automated Catalog
  • Virtual Reference
    		•    FTCC's Guide to Composition
  • Departmental Policies and Procedures: Evaluation of Compositions
  • English Course Descriptions
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    Source-Based Writing


    Research Paper Writing Guides
  • Guide for Writing Research Papers (APA)
  • Writing a Research Paper

    • Finding Topics & Sources
  • Argumentative Essay Topics
  • Internet Public Library
  • IPL Ready Reference Collection
  • Librarians Index to the Internet
  • Searching the WWW
    		•   
  • Plagiarism
  • Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
    Copyright Information
  • Copyright: an Overview
  • US Copyright Office
    		•    Evaluating Internet Sources
  • WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation
  • Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources 
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    Documentation Guides - All Styles


      Documentation Style Guides - MLA
    Modern Language Association
    (used in the Humanities)
  • Citing Government Publications (MLA Style)
  • Citing Internet Resources
    		•    Documentation Style Guides - APA
    American Psychological Association
    (used in the Social Sciences)
  • Electronic Reference Formats (APA)
  • Research and Documentation Online
  • Social Sciences: Documenting Sources

    •      		   Documentation Style Guides - CMS Chicago Style Manual  or Turabian 
    (used in History)
  • Documentation: Chicago Style
  • Research and Documentation Online
    Documentation Style Guides - CBE 

    • Council of Biology Editors
    (used in the Sciences)
  • (CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
  • Research and Documentation Online
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    Essay Writing


      How to Write an Essay
  • Structure of the Five Paragraph Essay

    •      		   Sample Student Essays
    Evaluation of English 101 Compositions (Maricopa Community College)
  • A essay for ENG 101
  • B essay for ENG 101
  • C essay for ENG 101
  • D essay for ENG 101
  • F essay for ENG 101

    • The Argumentative Essay
  • Logic in Argumentative Writing
    		•    Published Essays by...
  • Angelou, Maya

    • Living Well. Living Good
  • Clemens, Samuel L.

    • --What is Man? and Other Essays of Mark Twain
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson's Writings
  • Gleick, James

    • --Faster: the Acceleration of Just About Everything (chapters & excerpts)
  • Hewitt, John
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    Writing Formats


      Fiction Writing/Technical Writing
  • Society for Technical Communication
  • The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors
    		•    Poetry
  • Academy of American Poets
  • Literature Web: Poetry
  • Poet Warrior Press: Writer's Resource Center
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    Writer's Resources


      General Writer's Resources
  • Infinite Ink
  • Paradigm Online
  • Web English Teacher
  • World of Writing
  • Writer's Center

    • Online Writing Centers

  • Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
  • The Online Writing Center/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    		•    Reference Tools
  • American Heritage® Dictionary
  • Bartlett's Quotations
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • My Virtual Reference Desk
  • Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
  • Roget's Thesaurus
    		•    Mechanics, Grammar, Style
  • Elements of Style
  • Good Grammar, Good Style
  • Grammar and Style Guide
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing
  • Modern English Grammar
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    Language


      Linguistics
  • Ethnologue
  • The Human-Languages Page
    		•    Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
    		•    Words and Word Games
  • Word Game of the Day
  • Word Play
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    Magazines, E-Zines & Journals


      Magazines
  • Atlantic, Unbound
  • Cortland Review
  • Glimmer Train
  • Poets & Writers
  • Sites for Writers
  • UTNE Reader
  • Writer's Block
    		•    E-zines & Lists of E-zines
  • Zines Zines Everywhere

    • Poetry EZines
  • The Drunken Boat
    		•    Professional Journals
  • Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
  • PEN
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    This site maintained by Sam Zahran, English Department, FTCC
    zahrans@faytechcc.edu
    Last update: 08/14/2008