Whether you are nervous at the thought of writing a sentence or are someone who wants help in the final stages of your Master's thesis, we can help! In addition to our tutors, we have numerous reference books and handouts, computer software, and brochures to assist you.
Until you can come in to see us try these links:
Grammar and Style Guides for Writers
Provides links to style guides, grammar guides, and information on citing sources.
Avila's Online Catalog Access
As a member of the Kansas City Public Library Consortium, the library at Avila shares its online catalog, allowing direct patron borrowing from 25 local academic, public, and school libraries. About 2.5 million books are available through this system.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The Purdue University Writing Lab was one of the first writing labs to go online, and it remains one of the best websites for college level writing. This online writing lab (OWL) contains excellent handouts on a multitude of topics and links to other high quality OWL’s. You should spend a little time surfing this site to see all it has to offer.
http://www.siu.edu/~write/
Southern University of Illinois at Carbondale sponsors this OWL which contains very helpful handouts, as well as information and links to less popular styles such as Turabian and Chicago.
http://web.missouri.edu/~writery/
This is an online tutoring center sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia. Priority is given to MU students.
http://www.jccc.net/home/depts/1504
The Writing Center site at Johnson County Community College has links to many handouts on grammar, style, and writing a bibliography. Look in the gray bar on the left side of the site under student resources.
MLA RESOURCES
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
This site helps you with writing a paper from start to finish.
Look at the site
Table of Contents on the left to expedite your search for answers and information.
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm
This site has examples for writing citations on a Works Cited page.
