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Help with your Paper: Pre- Writing

Starting to Compile information to help students with their writing

Writing Process Tip

Strategies to Pre-writing

Helpful Resources

  • Understanding your assignment:  University of North Carolina 
    • The only way to write a paper is to understand what you are required to write about! This website helps you fully understand your assignment instructions.  

 

Writing Tip!

Are you suffering from Writer's block, and don't know where to start?

Check out Owl Purdue's Writing lab, and they can help you! 

Trying to Decide on a Topic?

Papers ideas can come from many different places:

  • Topics mentioned in your course
  • Personal experience and personal interest
  • Television, radio, and the Internet
  • Books that you have read
  • Browsing through the library or an encyclopedia
  • Friends and family
  • Modesto Junior College topic suggestions