The Genesee Valley Writing Center provides the resources listed below to help students who are not native speakers of English.

English as a Second Language Bibliography (Genesee Valley Center Writing Program)
A 21-item bibliography featuring articles related to writing program development for ESL students.

ESL Composition Learning Contract (Genesee Valley Center Writing Program)
A sample contract in writing composition for adult ESL Learners.

Grammar and Punctuation (Genesee Valley Center Writing Program)
A student handout with exercises on common grammar problem areas including: subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, pronoun case, parallelism, sentence fragments and dangling modifiers. Punctuation exercises cover use of semi-colons, colons and commas.

Miscellaneous Grammar Woes (Genesee Valley Center Writing Program)
A short handout with exercises on sentence fragments, dangling modifiers and parallelism.

Plagiarism and How to Avoid It (Genesee Valley Center Writing Program)
This reading consists of guidelines for students and include five useful principles of writing in the academic environment, as well as tips for avoiding plagiarism.

The Research Paper (Genesee Valley Writing Center)
This is an extensive guide to undertaking a research paper. Topics include: the purpose of a research paper, techniques for selecting and narrowing the topic, using the library for research, taking notes, writing the thesis statement, writing the first draft, documenting sources and plagiarism, and the revision process.

Troublesome Pairs (Genessee Valley Writing Center)
This quick reference sheet lists 30 examples of pairs of words that are commonly misused, such as affect/effect, its/it's, between/among.

Transitional Words (Genessee Valley Writing Center)
View examples demonstrating how transitional words help readers move smoothly from one idea to the next. Includes a chart with suggested words and phrases that are useful in specifying specific transitions, such as a showing an example, relationship, the development of a sequence, etc.