Writing Center Resources

How to generate ideas, select key words to help you find information, read background information, and form a tentative thesis.

Are you having trouble getting your ideas on paper? Visit this site to learn different strategies for generating ideas and organizing your initial thoughts on a topic.

It's your teacher, right? Well....maybe there's more to consider. See how thinking deeply about a target audience can help you focus your writing for a specific purpose.

This guide helps you find topics for controversial or argumentative research papers, gives information on finding sources, and writing a research paper with sources documented in the paper as well as at the end of the paper.

View the video "library orientation" to learn how to find books and articles at SMC. Watch the "One Search" video to learn how to use this search engine.

There are many different ways to write an outline, but here are a few ways to do it.

This guide gives you some questions to consider which will help you shape a thesis, or a sentence conveying the main topic of your paper.

Once you have a rough draft, what can you do to improve it?

The examples for each showcase the *error* and not the correct way to do it. The error is discussed above. You can look up how to fix the error using Google.