Welcome to the Effective Writing Practices Tutorial
This tutorial is no longer being actively updated and will remain available until the end of the Spring 2025 semester. After that time, it will be taken down. Please note that some content may be outdated or no longer relevant.
This tutorial is designed to help students review common mistakes in English grammar, punctuation, organization and writing styles, following American Psychological Association (APA) and Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines. It is intended for self-paced learning by students. Faculty can use it as an educational resource to supplement their classroom discussions on effective writing practices. It is not meant as a comprehensive resource on writing practices.
This tutorial was funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Northern Illinois University.
The Northern Illinois University Effective Writing Practices Tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.