Welcome to the Writer's Web Online Handbook!

Copyright: We follow Creative-Commons licensing for this site.

Please consult policies at outside sites linked from this page. For all materials housed on this server, non-commercial users may incorporate any pages needed into their classes, institutional resources, or publications provided that they either reproduce pages in their entirety About us: Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by Dr. Joe Essid, University of Richmond. This site is an archive copy, not being updated currrently as we develop a screen-reader-friend version of its conent. Any concerns about content should come directly to Dr. Essid.

Accessibility: We are currently upgrading all pages to be screen-reader accessile. Currently, our side menus employ imagine maps and we will replace them in the Fall 2023 semester, as well as updating some pages. This project will then relocate, but for now, we recommend that users consult the printable versions of all pages for screen-reader use.or make a full citation if only a portion of a page is used. Please contact Dr. Joe Essid, jessid@richmond.edu, with corrections, questions, or suggestions.

Acknowledgments: This site was made possible by the hard work of our Writing Consultants, the faculty they interviewed, and the student designers who assisted Joe Essid in revising & expanding our content. Special thanks to Kathleen Lietzau (class of 2010), who revised the entire site in May-July 2010 and Nellie Searle and Madeline Smedley (class of 2016) who proofread and revised the site in 2014-15. Griffin Myers consolidated old pages and made corrections to others in 2018.