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Introduction

Hi, my name is Mo and I am a writing tutor at the college level. While I mostly help clients in the undergraduate level, I have also supported those in graduate programs as well as university faculty. I hope to share some of my insight as a writing tutor to help improve your academic writing. I will be posting tip sheets, links to resources, and explanations of common writing terms. I look forward to helping anyone who stumbles upon this blog on their writing journey!

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Citation and Format Help

Here is a list of links I refer clients to, as a college writing tutor, for academic writing!

MLA Style Guide:

Purdue Online Writing Lab Definitely more user friendly than MLA's own website. Everything is organized is easy to understand sections.

2. The MLA Style Center

APA Style Guide:

APA Style Blog By far my favorite style guide website. The APA Style Guide Blog uses easy to navigate tiles and a search bar to help students easily access any citation or formatting information.

Chicago Style Guide:

Purdue Online Writing Lab Like the MLA style guide provided by Purdue, the Chicago style guide is easy to navigate and more user friendly that the website released by the Chicago manual of style.

Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

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Free Writing Resources

https://www.grammarly.com

Grammarly is both a website and extension which can help with grammar and spelling.

https://hemingwayapp.com 

Hemingway editor breaks down your writing and rates the reading level of the piece.

https://www.naturalreaders.com/index.html

A text to speech program that can help you read the works you are writing out loud to check for mistakes. You get 20 minutes of a premium voice a day, and after that free voices are available.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/

Google Docs is a great platform to write online and is available on any device.

https://owl.purdue.edu

Purdue Owl is an amazing source for academic writing format and citation guidelines. 

https://pomofocus.io

An online timer following the Pomodoro study method (25 minutes on, 5 minutes off) which is great to use to keep yourself on track while also giving yourself breaks while writing.

https://www.procon.org

ProCon is a good resource to get a starting point for the opinions on controversial topics.

https://scholar.google.com

A research data base that can be used in order to find academic and scholarly resources.