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Writing Resources

Style Manual, Second Edition: For Preparing Contract and Consultant Reports for the California Energy Commission. ( This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader. PDF)

Writing for North American Business Audience

Guidelines for Decision Memos (PDF)

Sample consulting report: "MRCB Sustainability Report 2008." (PDF - 3.5MB)

Sample consulting report: "Broad Connections: A Revitalization Strategy for a New Orleans Commercial Corridor."

Writing resources on the World Wide Web

Purdue Online Writing Lab

Strunk Jr., William. "The Elements of Style." Bartleby.com, 1999.

English as a Second Language

Guidelines for Your Paper (PDF)

Information about New Orleans

City to City New Orleans neighborhood guide (PDF)

The Lens - Online investigative journal

Open Sound New Orleans

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center

City of New Orleans

New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative

New Orleans Redevelopment Authority

Boston Redevelopment Authority

St. Claude in Common: Prepared by the students of Revitalizing Urban Main Street, MIT Department of Urban Studies + Planning, Spring 2009. ( This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader. PDF - 22.6MB)

Park, Haeyoun. "Population Declinde in New Orleans." The New York Times, February 3, 2011.

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