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Improve your writing through individual consultations. We provide resources such as manuals, tips, links to writing web pages, and videos.

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BadgerLink Learning Express Library College Students

Review grammar, reading, writing, and math skills
Prepare for graduate school admissions, CLEP, and college placement exams

Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory
This is a comprehensive guide to all things writing.
* General Writing
* Research and Citation
* Teacher and Tutor Resources
* Subject-Specific Writing
* English as a Second Language

Grammar Bytes
Comprehensive, hipster guide to all things grammatical. Includes tips and guides, videos, and exercises.
Turabian Quick Guide
Explains the most common types of citations using the Turabian format that we use at SHSST

These books are on the Writing Consultation Services Reserve Shelf in Leo Dehon Library. This is the top shelf on the left of the Reserves.

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by); Joseph Bizup (Revised by); William T. FitzGerald (Revised by); The University The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff (Revised by)
Call Number: 808.023 T84
ISBN: 022643057X
Publication Date: 2018-04-16
The manual on which the SHSST Style Manual is based.
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Call Number: 808.042 Z66
ISBN: 0060891548
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Academic Writing for Graduate Students by John M. Swales; Christine Feak
Call Number: 808.042 Sw16
ISBN: 9780472034758
Publication Date: 2012-07-09
The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Staff (Editor)
Call Number: 808.04 C432
ISBN: 9780226104201
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
The manual on which Turabian is based.
The Craft of Research by Wayne C. Booth; Gregory G. Colomb; Joseph M. Williams
Call Number: 001.42 B644
ISBN: 0226065669
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
A step-by-step guide to writing on the graduate level.
The Elements of Style by William Strunk; E. B. White; Roger Angell (Foreword by)
Call Number: 808 Str86
ISBN: 020530902X
Publication Date: 1999-07-23
A classic guide to smooth prose style
From Topic to Thesis by Michael Kibbe
Call Number: 230.072 K533
ISBN: 9780830851317
Publication Date: 2016-01-28
Office of Assertion by Scott F. Crider
Call Number: 808.4 C867
ISBN: 1932236457
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
A more classically-based approach to writing.
The Oxford Guide to Library Research by Thomas Mann
Call Number: 025.524 M315
ISBN: 9780195189988
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Research and Writing in the Seminary by Diane Capitani; Melanie Baffes
Call Number: 808.06 C172
ISBN: 0786478640
Publication Date: 2014-06-30
The SBL Handbook of Style by Billie Jean Collins; Society of Biblical Literature Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: 808.027 Sb41
ISBN: 9781589839649
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
Society of Biblical Literature
Writing Academic English by Ann Hogue; Alice Oshima
Call Number: 808.042 Os26
ISBN: 0131523597
Publication Date: 2005-10-27
Writing Theology Well 2nd Edition by Lucretia B. Yaghjian
Call Number: 808.066 Y1
ISBN: 0567499170
Publication Date: 2015-09-24