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Student Resources
College of Education Writing Center
Campus Writing Resources
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CLUE Evening Drop-in Writing Center Mary Gates Hall Gateway Center :: 206-543-5755 Interdisciplinary, open to all undergraduates. No appointment needed. Just print out what you've got, grab your notes, or bring your laptop, and stop by CLUE. Staffed by undergraduate and graduate student tutors.
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Odegaard Writing & Research Center Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 326 | 206.221.0972 ext. 273 | owrc@u.washington.edu Sunday 1:30-6:00pm; Monday through Thursday, 12:00-9:00pm. Interdisciplinary, open to all members of the UW community, make an appointment online or simply drop in. The OWRC offers specialized assistance through all stages of the writing and research process, whether you need help getting started or would like assistance revising a completed draft.
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Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity Instructional Center 1307 NE 40th, Room 240 :: 206-543-5425 Services available only to low-income, first-generation and disabled University of Washington students. Focus is primarily on the stages of the writing process.
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Student Research Consultations with Librarians The Student Consultation Service is designed for UW students needing research assistance with course- and degree-related projects and assignment s. Meet with a librarian one-on-one to discuss focusing a topic, identifying & evaluating sources, and searching library databases and the Inter net effectively. Writing Center help available 30 hours per week.
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Teaching & Learning Center, UW-Tacoma The Center has three ways to serve students: regular hours for in-person conferences, on-line conferences, and phone conferences.
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UW-Bothell Writing Center The Writing Center at Bothell provides students with individual and small group assistance with their writing. Students are welcome to come in a nd talk about research projects, strategies for making effective arguments, and ideas on how to best organize their papers, as well as any other concerns about their writing.
The College of Education recommends these online writing resources:
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
This site is an excellent resource for general writing tips, specific formatting/organization/style information for research writing, APA citation guidelines and ESL help.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
What is the difference between "affect" and "effect"? Can you end a sentence with a preposition? Grammar Girl, also known as Mignon Fogarty, developed a website rich with short, free, one-topic English grammar lessons for people looking to improve their writing skills. Archived audio shows and complete (readable) transcripts are available on the site. Mignon has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
The Basics of APA Style
This audio/visual online tutorial shows users how to structure and format their work in current APA style and recommends ways to reduce bias in language, identifies how to avoid charges of plagiarism, shows how to cite references in text, and provides selected reference examples.
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx
Reference and Writing Websites
- University of Washington Citation and Writing Guides
- University of Wisconsin Writing Center
- Alberta University Libraries
- Duke University Libraries
- Columbia University Press
- University of Washington Writing Centers
Helpful Books on the Academic Writing Process
These references are a good starting point for anyone who needs to write in a school or business setting. UW Librarians are also excellent resources and can recommend additional titles.
- Becker, H.S. & Richards, P. (2007). Writing for Social Scientists: How to start and finish your thesis, book, or article (2nd ed). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
From the publisher: "Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block. It is not always an easy process, as Becker wryly relates. Decades of teaching, researching, and writing have given him plenty of material, and Becker neatly exposes the foibles of academia and its “publish or perish” atmosphere. Wordiness, the passive voice, inserting a “the way in which” when a simple “how” will do—all these mechanisms are a part of the social structure of academic writing. By shrugging off such impediments—or at the very least, putting them aside for a few hours—we can reform our work habits and start writing lucidly without worrying about grades, peer approval, or the “literature.” In this new edition, Becker takes account of major changes in the computer tools available to writers today, and also substantially expands his analysis of how academic institutions create problems for them. As competition in academia grows increasingly heated, Writing for Social Scientists will provide solace to a new generation of frazzled, would-be writers."
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Gerald, G. & Birkenstein, K. (2009). They Say / I Say: The moves that matter in academic writing (2nd ed). New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
From the publisher: "They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, 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. The Second Edition includes a new chapter on reading that shows students how to read for the larger conversation and two new chapters on the moves that matter in the sciences and social sciences."
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Koln, M.J. & Gray, L.S. (2009). Rhetorical grammar (6th Ed). London, UK: Longman.
From the publisher: "Rhetorical Grammar is a writer's grammar - a text that presents grammar as a rhetorical tool, avoiding the do's and don'ts so long associated with the study of grammar. It reveals to writers the system of grammar that they know subconsciously and encourages them to use that knowledge to understand their choices as writers and the effects of those choices on their readers. Besides providing key strategies for revision, Rhetorical Grammar presents systematic discussions of reader expectation, sentence rhythm and cohesion, subordination and coordination, punctuation, modification, diction, and other principles."
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