LibGuides: Writing Help: Grammar, Style & Structure: Library Guide to Writing Styles, Structure & Grammar

Welcome to the RGO Library & Learning Commons (LLC) guide for writing. This guide provides instructions, advice, and recommended resources to help learners:

Improve skills required to write well such as grammar, punctuation, and style
Write in various professional and academic writing genres including essays, annotated bibliographies, and reports
Cite sources in APA style
Access resources and services available through the LLC

NEW library database for improving your writing skills! Follow the link below to access online tutorials, quizzes, and book chapters to improve spelling, punctuation, grammar, and reading:

PrepSTEP from Learning Express
PrepSTEP is an online learning platform containing interactive tutorials, practice tests, and e-books for foundational skills.

Helpful Websites, Handouts & Practice Tests for Writing Skills

Cengage Learning: Practice Tests
Interactive practice quizzes on a range of areas including comma use, conjunctive adverbs, modifiers, and sentence fragments
Grammar and Punctuation Handouts - Thompson Rivers University
Handouts and tipsheets on a range of grammar elements including apostrophe usage, articles, colons, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, subject-verb agreement and sentence fragments
Purdue OWL: General Writing Resources
Extensive guide with clear instructions and resources for improving writing mechanics, style, grammar, and more
University of North Carolina Writing Center
The Elements of Style by Oliver Strunk
A comprehensive guide to English grammar and composition for essay writing

Writing Help: Grammar, Style & Structure

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Helpful Websites, Handouts & Practice Tests for Writing Skills