Montwood HS Writing Center

The Writing Center staff is available before school, at B lunch and after school to help you with planning and revising any of your writing. You can also use the resources below to strengthen your writing on your own before or after bringing it in for us to read.

Planning

Our RAMS checklist offers our most essential tips for all student writing. Use it with the RAMS rubric (based on the SAT essay rubric) to evaluate your writing.

RAMS Writing Checklist

RAMS Writing Rubric

Revising

Our workshop Prompts for Writers give writing prompts for you to use to generate new ideas for your writing or you can ask someone else to respond to the Prompts for Readers to give you feedback on your writing.

Writers Workshop Handouts

Researching

Our MLA Formatting Guide gives a quick overview of how to use resources for your writing, but you can find more information at the link to the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.

MLA Format Guide

OWL at Purdue