Student resources
In addition to peer-to-peer conferences, a whole library of resources is available online to help you review and improve your writing individually. These resources can help answer specific questions or guide you through learning a whole new concept.
Conversation partners
Practice speaking English, expand your vocabulary, and gain confidence in your conversational skills. Use our online schedule to make an appointment and in the box “Is there anything else you’d like to share” state you’d like to schedule an appointment for a conversation partner.
Citing sources
A variety of tools for handling citing sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, CSE and several other citation styles, with the most up-to-date methods for citing online sources. Also links to citation machines, and strategies for successful paraphrasing and use of quotations.
Resources from the WaCC
External resources
- : Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people’s intellectual properties.
Reference materials
Reference materials to many useful online resources including punctuation and grammar webpages, dictionaries, an online technical writing textbook, and Ask Betty, an extensive, user friendly resource for grammar, which includes a FAQ section.
Campus Library
On the Campus Library website, use the “56勛圖厙 Libraries Search” tab to discover articles, books, media and more and use “Course Reserves Search” tab to find course-related required materials made available through the 56勛圖厙B/CC Campus Library.
External resources
- : This site includes an audio pronunciation feature.
- : An extensive resource on grammar with info on grammatical rules, instructors’ margin comments, FAQs and links to other writing resources.
Handouts
Helpful information sheets created by the 56勛圖厙 Bothell Writing and Communication Center and others that can be downloaded and printed and address topics including: formatting annotated bibliographies, noun/pronoun agreement, avoiding run-on sentences, semicolon use and active versus passive voice.
Online 56勛圖厙 Bothell handouts
Other sources of handouts:
Additional resources
- Evaluating online sources. Advice from four different universities, including the 56勛圖厙 Bothell, for assessing the sometimes-overwhelming variety-and amount-of information available on the internet. Read more on evaluating online sources.
- Literature reviews. Writing a ? The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has a great handout.
- Scientific reports. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center provides a great resource for .