Our Own Online Rhetoric and Style Manual (OOO)
Descriptive Writing
Methods (Infowrite)
Methods (OWL)
Examples of narrative descriptions about place
Doris Haddock, from Granny D
John Muir, from The Mountains of California
Henry David Thoreau, from "Walking"
Katharine Peterson, Losing the Trail
Gabe Felipe, The Excursion
The Paragraph
The nature of the paragraph(Strunk)
Paragraph structure (OWL)
Editing and Revising
Be Clear
Avoid wordiness, vagueness, indirection (Strunk)
Be concise(OWL)
Grammar and Punctuation reference (OWL)
Expository Modes
Definition (Infowrite)
Comparison and Contrast (Infowrite)
Process Analysis (Infowrite)
Division and Classification (Infowrite)
Cause and Effect (Infowrite)
Writing persuasive arguments (InfoWrite)
Critical Reading (InfoWrite)
Analyzing Arguments
The Toulmin Method (Colorado State)