Students are welcome to come to the Center for a quiet place to write. When students visit the Writing Center, they will find not only tutors ready to work with them, but also a variety of resource materials to help them with their written work. Below is a partial list of what is available.
- Dictionaries - including foreign language dictionaries for French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian
- Thesauruses - books of quotations, famous speeches, proverbs, literary terms
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Reference Books
- writing the college application essay
- writing essay exams
- writing about biology, history, sociology, and film
- special formats and conventions of English in the business world
- navigating the Internet
- Grammar Guides - grammar handbooks and exercise books, including the standard DCC grammar reference book
- Texts - textbooks used in campus composition and reading classes
- ESL - reference materials for ESL students
- Studies - studies in writing theory, writing across the curriculum, journal writing, portfolio assessment
- Anthologies - literature anthologies and guides to critical analysis
- Articles - articles on writing-related topics, e.g., collaborative learning, composition theory, writing centers, writing across the curriculum, English as a second language, linguistic studies
- Research - books and handouts on writing the research paper, including guides for documentation in the MLA and APA styles
- Sample Papers - a file of assignments and sample papers for selected classes. Instructors have placed on file model student papers that effectively respond to specific assignments.
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Handouts - a large file of handouts on many topics of grammar, mechanics, style, and essay writing, including
- comma usage, comma splices
- semicolons, colons
- pronoun reference
- scientific words, commonly mistaken words
- outlines
- brainstorming, clustering
- conciseness in style
- logical fallacies
Check out these widely used handouts in the Writing Center:
Writing Critical Essays about Literature
Writing Argumentative/Persuasive Essays
Visit the DCC Library's links to important information and tutorials about writing researched papers, including
- MLA, APA, and other citation styles
- citation generators, including EasyBib, APA Wizard, and DocCite
- formats for annotated bibliographies
Books are for use in the Writing Center only.