Writing Programme Initiatives

• NUS Library Writing Centre (supersedes the previous initiative under USP)
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Writing Academic Essays

• "Elements of the Essay" by Gordon Harvey
• Writing Tools by the Writing Center at Harvard University, which includes guides to topics such as "How to Do a Close Reading," "Developing a Thesis," and "How to Do a Comparative Analysis."
• Writing Center Handouts from the Writing Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which includes handouts on aspects of academic essays (like "Arguments" and "Logical Fallacies"), and ideas on writing for specific fields (for art history, philosophy, and sciences, for example).
• Writing Handbook by the Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which includes ideas on how to write scientific reports and reviews of literature.
• "Balanced Writing" by Stephen Donatelli. How should you move between detail and abstraction in an essay?

Working with Sources

• Using Sources from Yale College Writing Center
• Common Problems Encountered by Students in Using Online Resources by Harvey Molloy

Style and Grammar

• "Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style" by the Writing Center at Harvard University
• Owl Exercises from Purdue University
• Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians
• Get it Write Online Archive of articles about English Usage
• Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips by Mignon Fogarty

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary (only accessible if you are logged on within NUS)
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
• Merriam-Webster Online

Dictionaries

Unlike dictionaries, which give only the definition of a word, concordances give examples of how the word is commonly used in proper context.

• The British National Corpus Concordancer

Rhetoric

• Bibliographies for composition and rhetoric by Rebecca Moore Howard

Links to Other Writing Programmes

• Harvard Writing Expository Writing Programme