Sometimes you just want the world to go away so you can concentrate on the things that matter. For writers, finding a quiet place of one's own can be a tremendous challenge. Writer cuts away all the details and distractions and allows writers to write. The basic black and green screen allows visitors the option to save their work, check on the word count, create a PDF, or print it out. It's simple...

The impetus for the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative at George Mason University was part of a national media discussion in 1977 about a "literary crisis" in the United States. Three decades later, the WAC continues to thrive, and its website is full of resources for people who teach college English courses and related subjects. The mission of the WAC is to focus on writing as "a...

The Colorado State University has a rather wonderful set of online resources designed to help people become better writers. Most of these materials are offered right here on the Writing at Colorado State University website, where visitors will find ten different thematic guides. These guides deal primarily with writing in engineering, and they include Communicating as a Civil Engineer, Engineering...