Students are welcome to come to the Center for a quiet place to write. When students visit the Writing Center, they will find not only tutors ready to work with them, but also a variety of resource materials to help them with their written work. Below is a partial list of what is available.

• Dictionaries - including foreign language dictionaries for French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian
• Thesauruses - books of quotations, famous speeches, proverbs, literary terms
• Reference Books
  • writing the college application essay
  • writing essay exams
  • writing about biology, history, sociology, and film
  • special formats and conventions of English in the business world
  • navigating the "information superhighway" of the Internet
• Grammar Guides - grammar handbooks and exercise books, including the standard DCC grammar reference book
• Texts - composition textbooks and texts used in campus English classes
• ESL - reference materials for ESL students
• Studies - studies in writing theory, writing across the curriculum, journal writing, portfolio assessment
• Anthologies - literature anthologies and guides to critical analysis
• Articles - articles on writing-related topics, e.g., collaborative learning, composition theory, writing centers, writing across the curriculum, English as a second language, linguistic studies
• Handouts - a large file of handouts on many topics of grammar, mechanics, style, and essay writing, including
  • comma usage, comma splices
  • semicolons, colons
  • pronoun reference
  • scientific words, commonly mistaken words
  • essay writing
  • outlines
  • brainstorming, clustering
  • conciseness in style
  • logical fallacies
• Research - books and handouts on writing the research paper, including guides for documentation in the MLA and APA styles
• Sample Papers - a file of sample papers for selected classes. Instructors have placed on file model student papers that effectively respond to specific assignments.

Books are for use in the Writing Center only.