Two resources about writing personal statement

Students get feedback on a variety of genres.

This time of year students often come into the Student Writing Center with questions about personal statements for scholarship applications.  Duke University Writing Studio provides a useful genre analysis of personal statements and how writers can best prepare to write one:  "Professional School/Scholarship Personal Statements" (PDF).  Jo Doran and Allen Brizee of the inimitable Purdue OWL provide a solid overview of personal statements with examples at "Writing Personal Statements."

APA Self-paced tutorials

Walden University Writing Center has posted some self-paced tutorials on a variety of hyper-technical issues in APA style & citation. They are good for helping to learn some of the nit-picky areas of APA.

English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com

English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions - UsingEnglish.com is a fine list of idiomatic phrases used in English. Basically, idioms are expressions which are hard to decipher based upon a dictionary definition. Non-native speakers often struggle with idioms.

Citing Sources- The OWL at Purdue

Hey everyone; I had a student ask about citing sources yesterday and I wasn't able to find a great book right off hand, and I wasn't on my home computer to show them the site I use EVERY TIME I write a paper! So, here's the site, The OWL at Purdue...the greatest site I've found to tell exactly how, in ANY situation, to cite sources it-text and on works-cited pages. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02/

Citation Practice: Crediting your sources

Citation Practice: Crediting your sources A quiz related specifically to crediting sources properly.

Assignment Planner

Here is a very cool Assignment Planner from the University of Kansas Writing Center that spits out a process schedule for student writers.

Bedford Bibliographer

Bedford Bibliographer is another citation builder. It requires a login, however.

Son of Citation Machine

Son of Citation Machine this one is a commercial site that creats citations as well. (It seems to be supported by advertising, however.) It doesn't give assurance of accuracy, but that is no doubt true of most programs like this.

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries

Citation Builder: NCSU Libraries is an interesting tool to build citations in various formats.