Student Resources

The Writing Center is available free to EOU students from every discipline and every course level. We offer writing support for all on-campus, online, or on-site students.

Becoming an EOU Writing Tutor

EOU Writing Center writing tutors are peer tutors, meaning they are current EOU students. All writing tutors must first take WR 220, Methods of Tutoring, and pass the class with a B or better. Hiring decisions are then based on EOU Writing Center staffing needs. If you have already taken WR 220 and would like to become a writing tutor at EOU, please email the EOU Writing Center Director at srysdam@eou.edu. If you are interested in becoming a writing tutor, your first step is to take WR 220. Please reach out to the Writing Center with any questions!

The Writing Center @ EOU Workshop Handouts

Student Prezi on Visiting the Writing Center

Critical Reading and Annotations

Pre-writing/Invention

Student Guide to A.I Literacy

ESL Resources

Activities for ESL Students

English Learning Resources

50 Essential Sources for ESL Students

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Multimodal Writing

Digital Storytelling (James Madison University)

Online Portfolios (James Madison University)

Project Management (James Madison University)

Personal Branding (James Madison University)

The Chartmaker Directory

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Writing Help

Academic Paper Templates

Dashes & Hyphens (Writing Center at University of Maryland)

Ginger Grammar Checker

Grammarly (Grammar Checker)

Grammar Rules

Learning Strategies

Myths and Truths About Writing: Read what famous writers have to say about writing as a difficult and complicated process.

PEE – an Essay-Writing Technique

Peer Review

Purdue OWL

Writing Commons: “A global, worldwide resource, students consult Writing Commons to learn about writing processes, rhetoric, genre, research methods and methodologies, peer review, style–and just anything else related to Writing Studies.”

Writing Guides

Online Dictionaries

Dictionary by Merriam-Webster

Longman Online Dictionary of Contemporary English

Merriam-Webster’s Learner Dictionary

The Free Dictionary by Farlex

Spelling

Note: Some of the linked pages in this section are designed specifically for people with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. Spelling rules are the same for everyone, though, and if you have difficulty with spelling, you may find an approach to spelling that makes sense to you.

28 Rules for English Spelling (Riggs Institute)

English Spelling Rules (David Appleyard)

Five Guidelines for Learning Spelling and Six Ways for Practicing Spelling (Susan Jones)

Spelling Rules

Spelling Rules and Tips (Oxford Dictionaries)