Welcome

This website serves as a virtual handbook for students in both English 150 and English 190/2 at the Madrid Campus of Saint Louis University.  It provides student reference and assignment materials.

Students should click on the links below to access the appropriate pages as directed by their instructor.  Some links will access non-SLU websites.  Clicking on the "Wiki" link at the top will bring you back to this page.

Grammar & Mechanics

• A Writer's Reference, by Diana Hacker (when prompted to log-in, click "cancel")
• Common Errors Workbook: Grammar, by Lester Faigley
• Guide to Grammar and Writing - Capital Community College 

Rhetorical Strategies:

• Analysis
• Argumentation
• Cause/Effect
• Classification/Division
• Comparison/Contrast
• Definition
• Description
• Exemplification
• Narrative
• Process
• Summary/Critique

Concepts

• The Writing Process - KU
• Rhetoric & the Rhetorical Triangle 
• Thesis Statements - Dartmouth
• Analysis of Argument - University of Richmond
• Writing in the Disciplines

Resources

• Handouts 
• UNC Writing Center Handouts
• Purdue OWL Resources
• Dartmouth Material for Students 

• SLU Library Databases (log-in required to access)

• Reference Materials
• Oxford English Dictionary (requires SLU login)
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Visual Thesaurus 
• Roget's Thesaurus Online 

• Research Guides
• Research and Documentation Online, by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister 
• SLU Writing Center MLA Handout
• SLU Writing Center APA Handout 
• Chicago Style Quick Guide 

 
SLU Madrid English Writing Center