These resources represent just a sample of what’s now available on the Internet; often, the web sites and pages listed below will contain links to other resources, so give yourself time to do a little surfing!

The CUNY Writesite is the City University of New York’s Online Writing Lab. It offers "online instructional support in grammar and style, help with each stage of the writing process," "hints for how to handle various kinds of writing, throughout the disciplines," and "interactive practice exercises and discussion of issues connected with writing." Also has links to other online resources. http://writesite.cuny.edu/ieindex.html

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL): An excellent resource for writers, tutors, and instructors. Includes down-loadable handouts on general writing concerns, ESL, grammar, research writing and documenting sources; hypertext workshops on resume writing and researching; more links to more online sources and writing centers. http://owl.english.purdue.edu

The "Resources for Writers" page of The International Writing Centers Association Site features links to handouts, online tutoring and online dictionaries, thesauri, grammar guides. http://iwca.syr.edu/IWCA/WCResources.html

The Writing Center at Colorado State University Site: Another wonderful resource for writers, tutors, and instructors. Includes an extensive array of writing guides as well as interactive demonstrations and tutorials, and links to other online resources. http://writing.colostate.edu/tools.cfm

Writer’s Exchange features articles on a variety of topics, information about jobs and markets, a daily writing prompt, and hundreds of organized links. http://writerexchange.miningco.com/

The Writer’s Resource Center offers advice for writers of all kinds, with links to additional sites. http://www.poewar.com/

Dave’s ESL Café includes discussion forums, hints of the day, quizzes, tips on idioms, slang, and pronunciation, and links to other ESL resources. http://www.eslcafe.com/

Hacker Handbook Resources, a set of interactive grammar exercises for readers of handbooks by Diana Hacker, including A Writer’s Reference. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/exercises/

Capital Community Technical College’s Guide to Grammar and Writing is an excellent online grammar site for instruction and interactive exercises from the level of words and sentences to paragraphs, essays and research papers. Includes peripherals and PowerPoint presentations. http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Dan Kurland's www.criticalreading.com "shows you how to recognize what a text says, what a text does, and what a text means by analyzing choices of content, language, and structure. It shows you what to look for, and how to think about what you find."

The Hacker Handbook Research and Documentation Online page includes links to search engines and documentation styles in the humanities, social sciences, history, and sciences. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/default.htm

NoodleTools is "a free suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research." Includes search strategies, links to search engines, and a page for creating an MLA-style bibliography. http://www.noodletools.com/

Writer’s Roosts Web Resources from the University of Kansas Writing Center Site provides information and links for evaluating and citing Web Sites and online resources. http://www.writing.ku.edu/resources/evaluate.html

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant offers help with the writing process, from discovering ideas to editing, and for help on particular types of writing, from stories to argumentative essays. http://www.powa.org/