Online Tutorials
Need some help with grammar, mechanics, and style?
Many websites offer excellent tutorials followed by a variety of exercises that can either be printed out or completed online. We've chosen a few that we think are effective and fun and provided links to them below.
Unless otherwise noted, the following resources are from the Academic Center at the University of Houston, Victoria
Grammar and Usage: Resources and Exercises
- Sentence Fragments
- Parallel constructions
- Parts of Speech
- Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
- Semicolon Usage
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Passive vs. active constructions (from the University of Calgary Writing Center, with interactive quiz)
Kinds of Writing Assignments
Audience, Coherence and Argument
Documentation and Citation
- APA Style Guide (Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- MLA Style Guide (Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Chicago Manual of Style (Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- How to Avoid Plagiarism (Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)