Writing Guides
The Writing Process
- Understanding Assignment Guidelines
- Gathering Evidence
- Brainstorming
- Planning
- Developing an Outline
- Drafting
- Revising
- Editing
- Proofreading
Research Writing
- Introduction to Research Writing: The CaRS Model
- Writing Research Articles: The IMRaD Model
- Introduction to Scholarly Citation
Essay Writing
- Introductions
- Thesis Statements
- Complex Thesis Statements
- Topic Sentences
- Paragraph Structure
- Counterarguments
- Transitions
- Conclusions
Other Genres
Inclusivity in Academic Writing
- Let's Talk About Gender and Pronouns (created by MacEwan's Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity)
Writing Resources
Click the links below to access MacEwan resources.
Citation is an essential feature of academic writing. By engaging through citation with their scholarly context, students and researchers alike can advance rigorous, traceable, and persuasive accounts of their work. These citation guides help orient users toward some of the most commonly used styles across the disciplines.
Citation Tutorials
The Writing Centre offers two mêskanâs tutorials on the subject of citation: Citation and Scholarship: APA and Citation and Scholarship: MLA. These tutorials have two parts. The first part introduces the rhetorical perspective on citation practices across the disciplines, and the second part introduces the underlying principles of APA and MLA style, respectively.
Writing is a process, not a skill to be perfected. These guides can help users to become more reflexive, rhetorically self-conscious writers, and to navigate the many genres one encounters at academic institutions.
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