Kish Guides: Tutoring Services: Useful Writing Links

Excelsior
Resources for every aspect of writing. Easy to use.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
Purdue OWL will help with APA and MLA formatted papers and citing your sources
Grammar Rules - Grammarly

NoodleTools This link opens in a new window
Citation generator for APA, MLA, or Chicago-Style citation pages (Reference, Works Cited, Bibliography). You pick what type of source and where you got it from, and then fill in the wizard to generate your formatted page. Export the final product to add it onto the end of your paper, or share it with your teacher online. Try the notecard feature, too!

PowerNotes
PowerNotes is a browser plug-in that seeks to unify and simplify the research and citation process. You can use PowerNotes to organize your research, take notes as you go, and keep track of passages you may need to reference later. Once you finish the research portion of your project, PowerNotes is able to export your work into a word processor of your choice.

NoodleTools Guide
NoodleTools is a software that streamlines the paper-writing process. Read this guide and learn more!

Thesis Statement Pep Talk
This video helps students create strong thesis statements.
Thesis Statements, Starting Small
This video describes how to narrow and focus your topic and thesis statement for a paper.
Using Movies to Spark Critical Thinking and Write Thesis Statements
This video walks viewers through an exercise in which they will analyze movies to spark critical thinking and create high and low concept thesis statements.

"10 Minute English" is a set of tutorial video lessons and practice activities created by Kish Tutoring Services. Our goal is to help you learn how to write good sentences, paragraphs, thesis statements, and basic 5-paragraph essays. Each lesson builds on the lesson before it. Please consider meeting with a Kish Writing Lab tutor for additional help.

Lesson 1 - 10 Minute English Tutorial
Complete sentences and four sentence types (lesson, practice, and answers)
Lesson 2 - 10 Minute English Tutorial
Simple and compound sentences (lesson, practice, and suggested answers)
Lesson 3 - 10 Minute English Tutorial
Complex sentences (lesson, practice, and suggested answers)
Lesson 4 - 10 Minute English Tutorial
Parallel structure sentences (lesson and practice)
Lesson 5 - 10 Minute English Tutorial
Sentence revision (lesson, practice, suggested answers)

Logical Fallacies

This 7 video series goes over common fallacies that are used when making arguments such as:

Burden of Proof
Ad Hominem
Causation vs. Correlation
Confirmation Bias
False Equivalencies
Loaded Questions
Straw Man Arguments

To select a specific video, hover over the left or right-hand side of the image until you see the next arrow, which will allow you to move to the next video. Click on the video you want to watch and a new window will open.

Technology For Your Paper

Technology For Your Paper From Beginning To End
The purpose of this series of video tutorials is to familiarize you with the basics of using Microsoft Word for college writing. Watching all of the videos and completing the activities should take around 20-25 minutes. At the end you will receive a completion certificate.