EN111 - Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts

Explore strategies, resources, and tools that can help you come up with topic ideas or hone your topic into a research question.

Learn strategies for choosing keywords and constructing an effective search.

Tips for effectively reading scholarly articles.

Learn techniques for tracing article citation networks and mining bibliographies.

Give credit where credit is due! Resources for citing your sources using MLA and APA styles.

Learn about the parts of an annotated bibliography, why this format can help you better understand and make use of sources, and how to properly construct one using MLA Style.

The Center for Writing is a welcoming space where Norwich’s writers—students, faculty, and staff—come together to talk about writing. To support this belief, we offer free one-to-one consulting, as well as small group workshops, to the Norwich community. Our peer consultants are sophomores, juniors, and seniors from a wide range of disciplines who are trained to work with writers on a variety of writing projects—academic, creative, professional, digital—at all stages of the writing process.

A directory of web pages created by the Writing Center at Amherst College for explaining writing skills and practices.

Purdue University's OWL will help you with the writing process, mechanics, grammar, and more.