As students begin to return to college campuses across the country, they may be curious to know that there are a number of fine online resources that will help them develop their college-level writing skills. The first site offered here comes from the Dartmouth College Writing Program, and contains a number of helpful materials, such as some well-written essays that answer the question "What is...

Educators in many disciplines may be interested in Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts, a strategy guide from ReadWriteThink. Constructing a logical and well-supported argument is one of the fundamental skills needed to write a successful paper and it is something that many students struggle with when learning how to write. This strategy guide is intended for use with students in grades...

Designed and maintained by the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library Collection at the University of Pennsylvania, the DreiserWebSource website brings together a host of written ephemera, original essays, and electronic texts related to the life and writings of Theodore Dreiser, the prominent American author. While the site doesn't have a formal search engine, the material is divided into...

A number of collaborative online projects have developed during the past few years that draw on the resources of institutions and individuals that are frequently separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of miles. This website, which features early seventeenth-century political poetry, is just such a project. The team of collaborators includes professors from both Rutgers University and the...

Created in 1995 by Loss Peque'o Glazier, the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) serves as a "central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University of Buffalo, the University of Pennsylvania's PennSound, UBU web, and the Web at large." The EPC site makes a wide range of material dealing with digital and innovative poetry available to the general public. The homepage is quite...

The ENGL Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland library is jam-packed with resources for writers and teachers of writing. The Researching a Topic section is a great place to start. Here, students, instructors, and the general writing enthusiast can watch a short instructional video and learn how to develop a subject, formulate a research question, and think about possible...

This excellent resource from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) provides university and advanced high school students with valuable information about how to write a strong essay. The site explains that a good essay "aims to persuade readers of an idea based on evidence." It should answer a question, include a thesis statement and an argument, develop a thesis, and include examples, support...

Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and mathematician who may be thanked for major developments in geometry and calculus. He also wrote his last theorem in the margins of a paper. In the spirit of all the rich things scribbled in margins (paper and digital), Fermat's Library is a space where "professional scientists, academics and citizen scientists" can annotate one another's academic papers,...

If you want to write, read. And if you want to read about fiction writing, a good place to start is the Fiction Writers Review. Completely free and jam packed with writers writing about writing, this continually updated online periodical will fill you up with ideas and images. Start with the homepage, where you can explore numerous Features, ranging from interviews to essays. Then explore Popular...

Created by Hillary Carlip, who works as an NPR commentator and artist, the Fresh Yarn website is a place that serves as a gathering place for people interested in reading compelling, bizarre, and funny personal narrative essays. The site has been online since April, 2004, and since that time, there have been 25 "installments" of new material from a wide range of authors. Visitors to the site can...