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Colorado State University: Writing Guides- Organizing Your Writing
Information on the types of organization, general organizational patterns, headings and subheadings, building reader expectations, and transitions.

University of Calgary: Applied History Research Group- Writing Tutor Index
Information on topic focus, finding sources, reading sources, taking notes, organizing, writing a first draft, documentation, and editing.

Colorado State University: Writing Guides- Editing and Proofreading Strategies
Information on the different methods of editing and proofreading a rough draft.

Colorado State University: Writing Guides- Developing a Working Bibliography
Information on how to create a working bibliography with different sources and formats.

Furman University: PowerWrite; Writing Help
Information and guidance on how to create and state a thesis, organize a paper, identify an audience, revising and editing.

University of Wisconsin-Madison: The Writing Center-Stages of the Writing Process
Guidelines on creating argument, usiung sources, revising, editing, and proofreading.

Gallaudet University: Tutorial & Instructional Programs-Writing
Links to information on how to outline, design, develop a paper, review and revise a paper, and examples of types of papers.