Writing Resources for Students

You’ll find here a number of links to assist you as you research and write your academic papers, essays, short stories, op-ed pieces, and more. You'll also find interesting reading, because good readers become good writers.  

Write and Research

• Diana Hacker's "Research and Documentation" site, with sample papers
• Grammar Girl's tips
• PowerReporting. A tutorial on how to do research on the Web. Created for journalists, it’s helpful for anyone who needs information such as: how much is Babe Ruth’s 1931 salary in today’s dollars? What is the telephone number of the person (or other entity) running this website? And much, much more. 

Writers and Readers Gather Here 

• Literature and Latte, “A place for readers, writers, coffee drinkers and tautologies” (and some neat, free writing tools)
• The National Writers' Union, “Defending Writers’ Rights and Economic Interests.”
• Writer's Weekly, “The largest ezine for freelance writers.”

The Newsstand 

•  New York Times

• Washington Post
  

• Los Angeles Times

• Independent (news from Ireland)

• BBC
  

• NewsVoyager (links to local newspapers)

• Hartford Courant

• CNN (it’s not just TV)

Magazines

• Wired, not for geeks only. 

• The Atlantic, with selected articles from 1857 to the present.   

• The Nation, unconventional wisdom since 1865. 

• ZMag, resisting injustice, defending against repression, creating liberty. 

• The New Yorker Great cartoons, fiction, and more. 

• Harper’s Magazine from 1851 to the present. 

• Time, a weekly news magazine with daily updates. 

• Newsweek, same as Time. 

Books

• Bartleby, includes the Harvard Classics. 

• The Online Books Page 30,000 books—it’ll take you all semester.  

• Google Books, we’re pretty sure they have those copyright problems worked out. 

• Project Gutenberg, another 25,000 books, another semester.