Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library
Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library
Contact:
SSHEL (Room 101)
Main Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
Main Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
General Telephone: (217) 333-2305 Information Services Desk Telephone: (217) 244-1864
Website
Introduction to Writing Resources
This page collects resources for improving your writing skills and getting answers to your writing questions.
- The Getting Help box collects resources both on campus and online to help you navigate grammar rules, study skills, and the writing process.
- Guides to Writing About Music provides links to books in the Library that offer instruction, examples, and tips for writing about music in an academic context.
- If you have questions about citing your sources and avoiding plagiarism, make sure you check out the next tab of this guide!
Remember, if you need help conducting research, ask a librarian! If you're struggling with the writing process, you can always visit one of the Writers Workshop locations on campus and someone will be glad to help you.
General Writing Resources
This page collects resources for improving your writing skills and getting answers to your writing questions.
- The Getting Help box collects resources both on campus and online to help you navigate grammar rules, study skills, and the writing process.
- Guides to Writing About Music provides links to books in the Library that offer instruction, examples, and tips for writing about music in an academic context.
- If you have questions about citing your sources and avoiding plagiarism, make sure you check out the next tab of this guide!
Remember, if you need help conducting research, ask a librarian! If you're struggling with the writing process, you can always visit one of the Writers Workshop locations on campus and someone will be glad to help you. You can find writing groups in Writers Workshop General Events.
Content on writing sources adapted from the Music & Performing Arts Library's International Student Guide to Using MPAL
Getting Help
- Writers WorkshopThe Writers Workshop contributes to the intellectual and creative activities of the University of Illinois by providing support for all writers in the campus community—undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctorates, faculty, and staff—via writing consultations, writing groups and writing retreats, and workshops and presentations throughout the academic year.
- UIUC Center for Writing StudiesThe Center for Writing Studies is an interdisciplinary academic unit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates research and promotes graduate study in the areas of written composition, language, literacy, and rhetoric.
- OWL: Purdue Online Writing LabThis site includes information on everything from the writing process to basic grammar rules to citation guidelines.
- Cambridge International Dictionary of IdiomsThe Dictionary of Idioms contains idiomatic words and phrases, slang terms, figures of speech, common proverbs and metaphors, each clearly defined and illustrated with at least one sample sentence or quotation.
- Harvard College Writing Center: Strategies for Essay WritingIncludes guides to various aspects of writing academic essays. It leads student writers through the different steps of the academic writing process, featuring guides on topics from how to read an assignment prompt, to brainstorming ideas, to writing a thesis, to outlining.
- ESL ProgramsThe UIUC Department of Linguistics offers several English as a Second Language (ESL) and Service Programs throughout the year.
- ESL Tutors from the Linguistics DepartmentThe Linguistics Department also keeps a list of approved tutors--people with degrees and/or extensive experience working with ESL learners--that are available to set up appointments with ESL students.
- UIUC International Student and Scholar ServicesInternational Student and Scholar Services provides support and resource recommendations for international students through advising, immigration services, programming, advocacy, and outreach
Books
Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation by ISBN: 9781475815030Publication Date: 2015-09-25Provides discussions, anecdotes, questions, exercises, checklists, role play scripts, and affirmative spiritual statements.
The Dissertation Journey by ISBN: 1412977983Publication Date: 2010-08-23Written by a faculty member who taught organizational leadership, this book focuses on personal issues related to the writing process such as support groups for students, emotional issues, and writing problems.
Dissertations and Project Reports by ISBN: 9781137364265Publication Date: 2014-01-24Covers major components of dissertation and project management skills; includes interactive activities, checklists and student examples.
The Faculty Mentor's Wisdom by ISBN: 1607098768Publication Date: 2010-10-16Written from the perspective of faculty advisors who describe different approaches to mentoring and how these styles affect the dissertation process.
How to Write a Better Thesis by ISBN: 9783319042862Publication Date: 2014-03-26Draws on case studies and examples to guide you step-by-step towards productive success.
If You Want to Write by ISBN: 9781555974718Publication Date: 2007-06-26Brenda Ueland's writing advice: "Tell the truth, and [don't] do anything [you don't] want to do." Described by Carl Sandburg as "the best book ever written on how to write."
Surviving Your Dissertation by ISBN: 9781452260976Publication Date: 2014-06-13Covers stages of the dissertation process, research models, committees, IRB and ethical standards, and overcoming obstacles.
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by ISBN: 080504891XPublication Date: 1998-08-15Helps you to discover a personal writing process. Covers writing, advisor issues, revisions, and finishing.
