1. Grammar and writing

1.a. Articles

• Audience handout, University of North Carolina Writing Center
• Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: How to Write a Powerfully Persuasive Essay, Article, or Speech (2022)

1.b. Book chapters and books

• Monroe’s Principles of Speech, Revised Brief Edition, A.H. Monroe
• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
• , Joseph Williams (pdf, book), University of Chicago Press, 1990.

1.c. Courses

• Google Technical Writing Courses
• LinkedIn Learning (free with Seattle Public Library card)
  • Writing in Plain Language
  • Grammar Foundations: Chapter 3
    • Making sentences parallel
    • Passive and active voice
  • Advanced Grammar: Chapter 4
    • Comma rules
    • Dangling modifiers
    • Sentence structure errors

1.d. Examples of effective redundancy, signal-to-noise, audience

• 22.2: “Introduction to Energy Bands” (effective redundancy)
• Congress Prioritizes Water Resources Legislation in Lame Duck (adequate noise-to-signal ratio)
• Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator (TED Talk, all three)
• LGBTQ scientists are still left out (distracting, no effective redundancy)
• Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews (effective redundancy)
• The global environmental injustice of fast fashion (effective redundancy textually)

1.e. Tips and tactics

• Headline idea generator
• Narrowing a topic with an example, David McMurrey
• Repetition and Redundancy
• Using narrowing and focusing strategies to scope your topic (i.e., free writing, mind- or concept-mapping, questioning, and brainstorming)

1.f. Software

• Expresso
• Grammarly
• Hemingway
• Using Styles in Word

2. Writing resources at other universities

• Harvard College Writing Center
• Purdue Online Writing Center
• Stanford Writing Resources
• University of North Carolina Writing Center

3. FAQ, writing tips