Hill & Helmers, eds.
Defining Visual Rhetorics
Public Journal of Semiotics (Click "current issues" and "past issues" buttons on left side of screen)
This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms
of classical and renaissance rhetoric. This site is intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of
rhetoric, both on the small scale (definitions and examples of specific terms) and on the large scale (the purposes
of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for 2000+ years).
"Stephen's Guide to Logical
Fallacies are described in short paragraphs; lots of examples provided.
I suggest you sign-in so you can make use of the resources available within the site such as the search engine.
Writing Tutorial for people with common writing problems
(and a sense of humor) [only 3' 45"]
Using paragraphs Start by scrolling down to the section, "What is a paragraph?"
A "style guide" gives you direction on how to properly and systematically give credit to those who provide ideas you are using in your work.
If you borrow an idea that is helpful to you in developing your own ideas and arguments, you must give credit to them and a style guide tells
you when, where and how to do so in your essays. You will use the American Psychological Association (APA) style guide, 6th edition, for your work in this course.
If you need more assistance, try
APA Style Blog
This is a new resource that is very helpful. Use the search
bar to find topics.
University Owl link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01
University of Wisconsin link: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
Flash Video Tutorials (very good) [I recommend slides
13-26 in particular.]
How to Revise
Understanding Editing Marks on Drafts
CSUS Campus Writing Center
CSUS Writing Handbook
On-line Help for Writing Academic Papers
This is a handy site. I recommend you
use the Social Sciences tab--that's where you'll find
A part of the webster.commnet site above, this portion is specifically devoted to technical concerns
of appropriate, and precise writing. It provides help at the sentence, paragraph and essay levels of writing.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to "enter." You will then find an alphabetical list of common writing
errors explained in brief notes. Easy to use.
If you can't think of a word you want, but you can describe to what it relates, OneLook's reverse dictionary
lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.