Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 2: The Writing Process

Catalyst Skills Links

Catalyst 2.0 is a Web-based, collaborative, assisted writing environment designed to help you improve your academic writing and research skills. The links below will help you as you work through the assignments in this chapter.

Writing Tutors guide you through the assignment, planning, drafting, and revising process. You can use these specifically for description, narration, process analysis, comparison/contrast, definition, casual analysis, classification, arguments, informative reports, and other writing modes. These tutors have writing “wizards” to help you step-by-step through your writing process.

Outlining Tutor will help you create fine-tuned outlines.

Writing Samples provide you with examples of informative, interpretive, and argument papers.

Editing helps you fine-tune your work. It also provides diagnostic tests, complete explanations and examples, and even streaming video and audio help.