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Waymaker Writing Skills Lab focuses on the rhetorical content and strategies that are the baseline of effective college writing but also tend to give students trouble.

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Introduction to college writing.

  • Navigating this Text
  • Essay Definition
  • Essays as Conversation
  • Simple vs. Sophisticated Writing

Essay Writing Processes

  • Product- vs. Process-Based Writing
  • Writing Process Overview
  • Considering Writing Contexts
  • Writing Process Summary
  • Developing Ideas for Writing
  • Freewriting
  • Brainstorming
  • Clustering/Mapping
  • Skimming & Responding to a Text
  • Asking Questions
  • Making a List
  • Idea Matrix for College Writing
  • Using Artificial Intelligence
  • Working with Prewriting

Thesis Sentences

  • Thesis Sentence Definition
  • Parts of a Thesis Sentence
  • Characteristics of a Strong Thesis
  • Thesis Sentence: Topic & Angle Examples
  • Organizational Statements in Thesis Sentences
  • Developing a Working Thesis
  • Thesis Sentence Self-Check
  • Thesis Sentence Summary
  • Thesis Generator

Topic Sentences

  • Topic Sentence Definition
  • Characteristics of a Strong Topic Sentence
  • Developing Topic Sentences
  • Topic Sentences & Units of Support
  • Placement of Topic Sentences
  • Topic Sentence Self-Check
  • Topic Sentence Summary
  • Developing Support
  • Types of Support
  • Working with Support
  • "Enough" Support
  • Support Summary

Writing the Essay Draft

  • General Drafting Process
  • Drafting from an Outline
  • Ordering Topic Sentences & Units of Support
  • Transitions
  • Conclusions
  • Introductions
  • Drafting Summary
  • Revision Overview
  • Revision Stage 1: Idea Structure, Purpose, Audience
  • Revision Stage 2: Idea Development
  • Revision Stage 3: Sentences, Words, Format
  • Revising for Style
  • Revising for Flow of Information
  • Revision Summary

Issue Analysis / Logical Argument

  • Issue and Argument Definition
  • Logical Argument and Critical Thinking
  • Issue Analysis/Logical Argument in College Writing
  • Understanding Claims
  • Types of Claims
  • Supporting Claims
  • Prewriting & Developing Support for a Logical Argument
  • Drafting a Logical Argument
  • Revising a Logical Argument
  • Logical Fallacies Definition
  • Evaluating an Argument for Logical Fallacies
  • Logical Fallacies Review

Research Writing

  • Research Essay Defintion
  • Research Purpose
  • How Not/To Approach a Research Essay
  • The Research Process
  • Developing a Research Question
  • Research Essay in Process

Finding Sources

  • Preliminary Research Strategies
  • Finding Sources - Initial Searching with Google Scholar
  • Primary and Secondary Sources
  • Scholarly Articles
  • Finding Scholarly Articles in Databases
  • Database Search Tips
  • Additional Search Strategies
  • Evaluating Sources
  • CRAAP Analysis
  • Evaluating Websites

Using Sources

  • Using Sources Overview
  • Using Sources Ethically
  • Paraphrasing
  • Summarizing
  • Practice Attributing & Using Sources
  • Using Sources Summary

Citing Sources

  • Citing Sources Overview
  • Identifying Plagiarism
  • Avoiding Plagiarism
  • MLA In-Text Citations
  • MLA End-of-Text Citations
  • Citation Resources, Tools, & Games

Common Essay Structures / Patterns of Development

  • Patterns of Development Overview
  • Process Analysis
  • Comparison and Contrast
  • Classification and Division
  • Cause and Effect
  • Thesis Sentences for Patterns of Development

Sample Essays

  • Thesis-Support Essays
  • Sarah's Essay in Process
  • Logical Argument
  • Artificial Intelligence Samples

Select Grammar, Punctuation, & Writing Resources

  • Sentence Fragments
  • Run-on Sentences
  • Parallel Structure
  • Semicolons and Colons
  • Apostrophes and Quotation Marks
  • Commonly Confused Words
  • Links to Writing Sites

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  • 2.1: Lesson 1: Writing Preferences and The Writing Process
  • 2.2: Exercise 1: Identify Your Writing Preferences
  • 2.3: Lesson 2: Writer’s Block
  • 2.4: Video: Writer’s Block Instant Cure
  • 2.5: Exercise 2: Your Experience with Writer’s Block

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UK’s creative industries bring in more revenue than cars, oil and gas – so why is arts education facing cuts?

Adam Behr , Newcastle University

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An ode to the social realism of ‘boring’ lyrics – from The Kinks to The Streets

Glenn Fosbraey , University of Winchester

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How to write a love song – three tips for beginners from a songwriting expert

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‘ Cli-fi ’ might not save the world, but writing it could help with your  eco-anxiety

Rachel Hennessy , The University of Melbourne ; Alex Cothren , Flinders University , and Amy T Matthews , Flinders University

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I research the therapeutic qualities of writing about art – here are three steps for trying it yourself

Patrick Wright , The Open University

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Creative writing can help improve one’s health: a South African study shows how

Dawn Garisch , University of Cape Town and Steve Reid , University of Cape Town

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Boxing empowered me to express my trauma – now, I help other abuse survivors do the same, combining it with creative writing

Donna Lyon , The University of Melbourne

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How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from history

Quraysh Ali Lansana , Oklahoma State University

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How to understand your grief through writing

Catherine Cole , Liverpool John Moores University

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Write what you know: the COVID experience is a rich resource for year 12 English exams

Janet Dutton , Macquarie University

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5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing

Brett Healey , Curtin University

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Writing can improve mental health – here’s how

Christina Thatcher , Cardiff Metropolitan University

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In an AI world we need to teach students how to work with robot writers

Lucinda McKnight , Deakin University

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To succeed in an AI world, students must learn the human traits of writing

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‘Lit therapy’ in the classroom: writing about trauma can be valuable, if done right

Yannick Thoraval , RMIT University

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Too many adjectives, not enough ideas: how NAPLAN forces us to teach bad writing

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What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation

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Life sentences – what creative writing by prisoners tells us about the inside

Dr Michael X. Savvas , Flinders University

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Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in ‘human zoos’ are chilling

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  3. Writing in College

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  4. Introduction to Creative Writing

    The Writing Process. Lesson 1: Writing Preferences and The Writing Process. Exercise 1: Identify Your Writing Preferences. Lesson 2: Writer's Block. Video: Writer's Block Instant Cure. Exercise 2: Your Experience with Writer's Block.

  5. 3.1: Lesson 3: Elements of Fiction

    Characters, setting, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme are six key elements for writing fiction. Characters. Characters are the people, animals, or aliens in the story. Readers come to know the characters through what they say, what they think, and how they act. E. M. Forster, an English novelist, identified that characters are either ...

  6. About This Course

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  8. Writing

    You usually create writing for a specific reading audience to read, with a specific purpose or outcome in mind, whether that audience consists of your co-workers, your boss, your peers in a community endeavor, your peers in an online course, or even yourself. However, active consideration of context often happens subconsciously, if at all.

  9. Writing Skills Lab

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  10. College Writing

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  11. 3: Writing Fiction

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  12. 3.23: Lesson 8: Exploring Points of View

    As stated before, stories are generally told in one of two points of views: First-person point of view. Third-person point of view. First-person point of view means that one of the characters in the story will narrate-give an account-of the story. The narrator may be the protagonist, the main character. Writing in first-person point of view ...

  13. 2.3: Lesson 2: Writer's Block

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  14. Rubric: Sound Poem

    Rubric: Sound Poem. Consistently in first-person or third-person point of view. Uses one or more literary devices that create musicality in a poem: alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, end-stopped lines, enjambment, casura. Does not use unnecessary words: very, really, always, gotten.

  15. 2: The Writing Process

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  18. Creative writing News, Research and Analysis

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  19. Introduction to Creative Writing

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  20. Creative Writing, MFA

    As an MFA student, you will undergo intensive theoretical and practical training across genres - including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, editing and publishing. You will complete a thesis in the form of a collection of poetry, short stories, essays, a novel or memoir. The MFA program features an intimate, supportive learning ...

  21. Creative Writing Rankings 2025

    SUBJECT LEAGUE TABLE 2025. A Creative Writing degree will let you flex your storytelling abilities and study the work of literary legends.Our university rankings for Creative Writing include Scriptwriting and Poetry Writing. Share.