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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant   This Web site is an outstanding tool for discovering, honing, and polishing your non-fiction writing skills. Both beginning and experienced writers will find helpful resources here. The Web site's sections or topics include discovering what to write, organizing your writing, revising your writing, editing your writing, writing informal essays, writing thesis/support essays, writing argumentative essays, and documenting sources. Each section includes discussions of related topics and activities that are designed to help you learn and practice writing skills. In addition, there is a chat center where you can interact with other writers. Paradigm Online Writing Assistant is written and maintained by Chuck Guilford, an associate professor of English at Boise State University, who has 30 years of teaching and writing experience.

Inkspot   Inkspot is a well-rounded general resource for writers. It contains special features for beginning writers, including a Beginners' FAQ and a section for young writers. You can find links to the premier news sites on the Web here, as well as articles highlighting news in the publishing industry (see "editor ink"). Top Picks highlights and reviews outstanding Web resources for writers. You can find articles and interviews with professional writers and editors about all aspects of the writing business, many of them previously published in the e-mail newsletter Inklings. There are sections of classified advertisements from writers looking for publishers and from publications (paying and non-paying) looking for writers. This is a rich site, and these notes merely describe the tip of the iceberg.