• Admissions Essay (Counseling/Education) .   This page is a brief checklist for students who are required to write admissions essays for the TROY - Montgomery College of Education.
• Critical Reading/Critical Writing .   This page gives you questions to help analyze the relationship of your writing to your purpose, audience, and writing situation.
• How to Summarize an Article . This page gives a step-by-step method for reading and summarizing material.
• The Critical Pr é cis . A critical pr é cis is a summary that includes an evaluation of texts.   You will find the pr é cis format helpful in writing critical reviews.   Critical reviews are required in many courses and on some admissions essays.    

ONLINE WRITING LABS   AND OTHER HELP

• Resources for Writers . This guide from the International Writing Center Association links to multiple resources on a variety of topics helpful to students.
• The Purdue University Online Writing Lab .   The Purdue Online Writing Lab contains numerous valuable handouts on many writing topics.
• Bedford/St. Martin's Exercise Central . This site gives you the opportunity to do exercises on grammar, style, and mechanics.   The essays are graded online, and there is no charge for this service.  
• Bedford/St. Martin's Research and Documentation . This site gives instructions and sample papers in APA, MLA, Chicago, and CBE style.
• Diagnostic Tests for conventions of written English.
• The Twenty Most Common Errors . This site by Andrea Lunsford lists the twenty most common mistakes in student writing and offers concise instruction on how to correct these mistakes.
• The George Mason University Guide to Writing in Psychology . This site contains writing handouts for students in psychology.

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