Hill & Helmers, eds.
Defining Visual Rhetorics
Public Journal of Semiotics (Click "current issues" and "past issues" buttons on left side of screen)
"Silva Rhetoricae"
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
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"
http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/
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.
Video
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?"
APA
Style Guides:
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
these:
APA Style Blog
This is a new resource that is very helpful. Use the search
bar to find topics.
Purdue
University Owl link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01
University of Wisconsin link: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
APA
Flash Video Tutorials (very good) [I recommend slides
13-26 in particular.]
How to Revise
Understanding Editing Marks on Drafts
On-line Help for Writing Academic Papers
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/home.html
This is a handy site. I recommend you
use the Social Sciences tab--that's where you'll find
communication
studies resources.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
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.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
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.
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
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.