Writing Resources
Handouts from Cabrini's Writing Center
- Thesis Statements
- Counter-Argument and Rebuttal
- Writing the Paragraph
- Summary and Analysis
- Invention
- Strong Introductions
- Strategies for Revising
- Strategies for Editing
- Integrating Sources into Your Writing
- Patchwriting vs. Paraphrasing
- Guide to Writing Annotated Bibliographies
- Guide to Writing Literature Reviews
- Guide to Writing Lab Reports
- Documenting Sources in MLA Style (8th Ed.)
- Documenting Sources in APA Style (7th Ed.)
- Integrating and Documenting Sources Chicago Style
- Using RefWorks
- Strategies for Reading in College
Style Guides and Citations
The Cabrini University Holy Spirit Library has collected style guides for MLA, APA, and more.
ERIC/Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation offers a thorough listing of citation styles and links to examples for each citation format.
Writing Guides
Temple University’s Writing Center offers advice and techniques for writing and researching.
The Writer's Handbook from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides resources on academic and professional writing, the writing process, and style, grammar, and punctuation.
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a toolbox for the writing process, as well as writing in specific genres and disciplines.
Recommended Texts about Writing
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2008. Print.
Graff, Gerald and Cathy Berkenstein. They Say, I Say: Moves that Matter In Academic Writing. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print.
Hacker, Diana, and Nancy I. Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual.7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2015. Print.
Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. The Bedford Handbook. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016. Print.
Williams, Joseph M., and Gregory G. Colomb. Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace. Boston: Longman, 2012. Print.