Writing Across the Curriculum

HELP! For Writers

     USM offers services to students seeking to improve their writing skills.  The Learning Foundations website is an excellent place to start. You can find them at www.usm.maine.edu/lap.  Their site provides information on the Learning Centers in Portland and Gorham, tutoring programs, academic workshops, and courses in writing proficiency. 

     You might also wish to consult USM’s College Writing website at www.usm.maine.edu/eng/collegewriting.htm

     There are other websites that you might find helpful to your work as a writer.  The first is the companion site to the book, Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference, that many USM instructors use in their writing courses.  The URL for that site is www.dianahacker.com/writersref.  Colorado State also has a very helpful site that you can find at http://writing.colostate.edu

     Good old-fashioned books are among writers most valuable tools (and most valued friends).  Favorites among faculty writers include the following:

• Strunk and White, The Elements of Style 
• Roget's Thesaurus
• any good dictionary

This page was last updated on March 5, 2004.