Writing Resources
Some of you may not have done much graduate level writing lately. Writing is an essential skill both to focus your thinking and to enable you to achieve higher levels of learning, and it is an essential skill for geospatial intelligence professionals to communicate their results and recommendations. Writing clearly and concisely is an essential skill.
Below you will find several online references to help you write better.
- The Capital Community College Foundation's Guide to Grammar & Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
(Last accessed May 24, 2007)
- The Writing Lab at Purdue
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/writinglab/
(Last accessed May 24, 2007)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's The Writer's Workshop
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/
(Last accessed May 24, 2007)
- The University of Wisconsin Writing Center
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook
(Last accessed August 24, 2007)
Writing Guide:
Now that you have checked out the websites above, select one that you think would be the best desktop writing aid and create a bookmark in your browser. You now have a writing guide bookmark that you can refer to anytime you have a question.