Writing Skills
WRITING SKILLS are an essential part of academic success. This page provides links to resources, worksheets, and tutorials focused on all parts of the writing process--including topic development, organization, and outlining.
- KU Writing CenterWriting Resources by Topic including resources for ESL learners.
- Resources for Multilingual Writers(Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning)
KU Writing Center - Free writing advice and help
- KU Writing Center
Writers need feedback, sounding boards, and other people to coach and guide them while they compose. That's where the KU Writing Center comes in. It's a place for productive talk about writing, with trained peer consultants to help you brainstorm, draft or edit your writing.
Our home base is in Anschutz Learning Studio, but we also send our consultants to satellite locations around campus called Writer's Roosts. - Writing GuidesVarious resources compiled by the KU Writing Center to help you in your writing.
Topic Development
- Beginning your Research - Choosing Keywords for Your TopicThis worksheet guides students in the process of selecting appropriate keywords to be used as search terms. With a list of appropriate search terms, students can develop a strong search statement or research question.
- How to form a research questionClear examples showing how to form a good research question. (Loyola Marymount University)
- Idea GeneratorStruggling with ideas for an upcoming term paper, speech, presentation, etc.? (Old Dominion University)
- Thesis Statements(KU Writing Center) Thesis statements establish for your readers both the relationship between the ideas and the order in which the material will be presented. As the writer, you can use the thesis statement as a guide in developing a coherent argument.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.
Books on writing
Writing Well in the 21st Century: the five essentials by ISBN: 9781442227590Publication Date: 2014Online resource. E-book. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet.
On Writing Well: the classic guide to writing nonfiction by Publication Date: 1998
Annotated Bibliography
- Writing An Annotated Bibliography(University of Central Florida, Writing Center)
- How to Write Annotated Bibliographies(Memorial University Libraries)