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#finalsweekproblems: YOU’RE ALMOST DONE

The FINAL day of FINALS week. 20 minutes later…

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Writing Resources: visuwords.com

Visuwords is an online visual dictionary and thesaurus. It is a great resource to use when you feel stumped during the brainstorming process, if there’s that one word that’s on the tip of your tongue,...

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Writing Resources: Son of Citation Machine

Son of Citation Machine is a great resource for making citations in MLA, APA, Turabian, and Chicago citation styles. Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough to quick and easy citations. Notice the bar on the...

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Writing Resources: Giant Golden Buddha (and 364 more 5 minute writing exercises)

Giant Golden Buddha and 364 more 5 minute writing exercises is a series of writing prompts by author C.M. Mayo. Here’s how it works. There is a prompt for each day of the year. After reading the daily...

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Writing Resources: Grammar Girl

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between affect and effect? Lay and lie? i.e. and e.g.? Grammar Girl has the answers to these questions and many others that elude writers far and wide....

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NaNoWriMo

It’s that time again! November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and at The Writing Center we are excitedly anticipating its arrival. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to encourage its participants...

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Writing Resource: Nika Harper’s Wordplay

Nika Harper does vlogs on the Geek and Sundry Youtube channel. Her vlog series is titled “Wordplay” and its topic is creative writing. You might be wondering how creative writing videos might help you...

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E-mail Etiquette Tips

Looking back, I could never have anticipated how many emails I would write and receive in college. As we’re all aware, e-mail has become an essential part of every college student’s academic life....

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The Writing Process

I know what you’re thinking; you’re wondering what is a writing process and why I am writing about it? A writing process is whatever sequence of events you follow from start to finish when you write...

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