Information Literacy

The Excelsior OWL is a great resource for all stages of the writing and research process. The interactive site walks you through each step of writing from researching to drafting to editing and revising with helpful examples and interactive activities to check your understanding. They have an entire section on integrating research sources.

This site is a reliable place for writing support. It offers guidance on basic elements of writing as well as APA specific guidance. Use the Online Writing Lab to get support.

This site offers guidance for all parts of the writing process, including thesis statements, developing arguments, using evidence to support claims, and more.

This collection of tips and tricks covers many topics on Writing the Paper and Citation, Style, and Sentence Level Concerns. The tips cover a huge range of topics and some of the tips are videos. Find advice on things like passive voice, sentence patterns, and editing. They also have guidance on different types of writings and assignments like literature reviews, teaching statements, and resumes.

Browse this collection of writing & speaking guides to find the help you need, whether that's a rule refresher or a whole new way to think about writing a paper. Topics include citation support, research strategies, and planning and organizing.

A reliable source for looking up definitions that include pronunciation help, synonyms, and usage and grammar tips.

The OED is great if you need to do a deep dive on word definitions and trace their origins.

Thesaurus.com is a reliable place to get suggestions for synonyms and near terms.

Power Thesaurus is a fast, convenient and comprehensive online thesaurus built by users for students and writers! The synonymic and other associations are suggested, rated and used by its visitors.

Graph Words is a interactive visual thesaurus. It does the expected job of finding associated words, but it does so in a visually engaging way. Words are color coded into nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

Enter a word, phrase, description, or pattern to find synonyms, related words, and more. Type in the concept that you want to convey to find possible terms and phrases.

With a free account you can access this powerful writing tool. Grammarly supports streamlined and effective writing. Its suggestions help identify and replace complicated sentences with more efficient ones, refresh repetitive language, and uphold accurate spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

This free tool is an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste your writing into the homepage and access a wealth of information including word and character counts, word and sentence lengths, the readability of your text, and other assessments.

This free online tool can be used to show how readable your text is by providing a Flesch Readability Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score. These scores give an approximation of the difficulty and complexity of your writing.

This web based tool gives you immediate feedback on your writing by highlighting specific phrases and sentences and offering suggestions to improve readability. You can paste text or write directly in the app and receive feedback on aspects of your writing like passive voice, sentence difficulty, similarities, and more.

Slick Write is a powerful, free application that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest. Click start writing to upload your document. Then use the menu at the left to get different feedback such as flow and sentence statistics.