Student Learning Commons: "Self-help" Editing Resources

Want to gain more control over your editing skills? These links and handouts will help you review common editing and stylistic problems so you can revise your own writing more confidently. TIP: Save most of your editing and proofreading until close to the end of your writing process, when you're reasonably sure about the content of your draft.

There, They're, & Their! Helpful Usage Tips

Grammar Refresher

  • Grammar and Punctuation: includes handouts on common errors and how to proofread -- University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing: this extensive site, which includes self-scoring quizzes, allows users to pick and choose elements of grammar they want to review -- Capital Community College 
  • Grammar: includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions -- Purdue University Online Writing Lab