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Writing and GrammarThe links on this page should provide you help with your writing and grammar. Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) - An entire grammar book and style manual on your computer screen! Writing for College. How It Differs From Writing in High School - Dartmouth Writing Program - "Old formulae, such as the five-paragraph theme, aren't sophisticated or flexible enough to provide a sound structure for a college paper. And many of the old tricks - such as using elevated language or repeating yourself so that you might meet a ten-page requirement - will fail you now." Quote from the web site WritingFix and the 6 + 1 Traits - A non-profit site for writers and teachers. This free site is sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project and the National Writing Project "The 6 + 1 Traits Model helps students, teachers, and writers think about writing analytically." The Basic Principles of Persuasive Writing - Persuasive writing is writing that sets out to influence or change an audience's thoughts or actions. ...understanding persuasive strategies can help you in two very important ways: 1) Knowing the strategies helps you analyse the strategies other people are using to persuade you. This way you can protect yourself when, for example, unethical marketers are trying to take advantage of you. 2) Knowing the strategies helps you to choose which is the most effective way to persuade an audience. Grammar Slammer! Welcome to Grammer Slammer, the help file that goes beyond a grammar checker. Use it as you would any help file. Guide to Grammer and Style by Jack Lynch Brain Researchers Discover the Evolutionary Traces of Grammar - Max Planck researchers in Leipzig show that linguistic rules are processed in two phylogenetically different brain regions |