Writing Letters, E-Mails, Reports, Essays and Dissertations

• Specific Examples of Address, Salutation, and Complimentary Closing
• 20 Ways to Say Thank You and Best Regards in 23 Other Languages
• Letter Closings
• Business Letter Closings
• LetterClosings.com
• List of Letter Closings and E-mail Goodbyes
• Professional Letter Closings
• Guide to Writing Invitations: Exploring Etiquette, Copy & Style
• Addressing Business Letters for Government Officials, Diplomats, Clergy, Armed Services, Educators, Attorneys and Physicians
• Catholics - Proper form in writing a letter
• How to Address Priests and Religious: Titles and Signs of Respect
• Writing Tips: Chicago Manual of Style
• Writing Tips: University of Nevada

  – Sentences and Structure
     1. Articles: When to use a, an, and the
     2. Comma Splices and fused sentences
     3. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers: How to avoid using them incorrectly
     4. Prepositions: How they are used, and how to decide what to use
     5. Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement: Correct relationship
     6. Sentence Formulas: Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
     7. Subject-Verb Agreement: How to make subjects and verbs agree
     8. Verb Tenses: When to use
  – General Writing
     1. Essay Organization: How to effectively organize an essay
     2. Interesting Introductions and Conclusions
     3. Thesis Statements: How to create and place one in a paper
     4. Transitions: How transitions connect ideas and paragraphs
     5. Writing About Literature: Ways to write about literature and analyze a text
  – Research
     1. Evaluating Sources: How to judge the credibility and effectiveness of a source
     2. How to Write an Abstract: What an abstract is and how it should be written
     3. Plagiarism: How to avoid plagiarism in writing and research
     4. Research Papers: How to begin writing a research paper
  – Style
     1. Sexist Language: Ways to avoid sexist and other exclusionary language
     2. Wordiness and the Passive Voice: How to eliminate wordiness
     3. Parallelism: How to use parallelism to improve the fluidity of an argument

• Letter Writing: Define your purpose, the first paragraph, the body of the letter, the final paragraph, achieve the right tone, adopt a clear layout, greetings and endings
• Tips for Keeping Your Writing User-Friendly
• Sample letters
• Useful Phrases
• How to Use Outlook 2007
• Outlook Archived Tips, alphabetically by title
• How to Use Outlook 2003
• General Writing Concerns (Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres)
• MIT Open Courseware, Writing and Humanistic Studies

The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies gives students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical communication and digital media.

• Writing a PhD Thesis: Practice and Pain
• On the dangers of revision; Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers
• How writing shapes thinking and thinking shapes writing, Professor Kirsti Lonka, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Teaching Writing as a Process and Teaching Sentence-Level Syntax: Reformulation as ESL Composition Feedback
• Writing As A Process
• Peer Editing and Writing as Process
• NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
• Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom
• Writing Process Websites
• The Many Aspects of Writing
• why Teach Digital Writing? A Rhetorical View of Writing
• The Writing Process
• Writing As a Process, Writing Center, Bryan Campus

Understanding the assignment
Pre-drafting/Brainstorming
Planning
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Documentation Last glance/typo check
Using comments from a graded paper

• Lesson Plan: Writing as a Process
• Wiki as a Teaching Tool
• Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell: Cengage Advantage Books: The Concise Wadsworth Handbook (Thomson Advantage Books), Spiral-bound, Wadsworth Publishing, 2007, ISBN: 1413030610

ONLINE HELP: MSWORD 2007; DOCUMENT WRITING AND EDITING

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• La rédaction et la communication (Banque de dépannage linguistique du Gouvernement du Québec)
• Conjuguer un verbe en français, en allemand, en espagnol ou en anglais, avec sa définition et sa traduction
• Protocole de correspondence
• Writing Letters in French; Laying out the letter, greetings, closing the letter (formal and informal endings), addressing the envelope, applying for a job
• The good manners
• Sample Letters in French
• French Letter Closings
• Art de la correspondence : Comment commencer et terminer un courrier; formules de politesse
• Art de la correspondence : formules particulières
• Art de la correspondence : Titres des personnalités
• Art de la correspondence : comment s'adresser à une personnalité
• Rédaction de courrier