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Attribution: University of Northern Iowa Rod Library "Understand Your Assignment"
If you have questions about spelling, grammar, organization or style, these resources from the Online Writing Lab - OWL - at Purdue can help you find the answers.
OWL resources found at this webpage cover many of the different types of writing assignments you may have in college.
Describes common writing assignments like annotated bibliographies and research papers.
Spelling exercises - Accept or except? Affect or effect?
Numbering exercises - When do you use a numeral, like 31, and when do you write out thirty one? Find out here
Sentence structure exercises - Test yourself subject and verb agreement, run on sentences and more
Sentence style exercises - Eliminating wordiness
Need help with words that sound alike? When should you use their, there or they're? Who or whom? Its or it's? Click here for help with these and other tricky rules of grammar. Scroll down to find all the options on the left side column.
Grammar-related exercises can be found here.
These OWL resources will help you with punctuation, such as using commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, and hyphens.