Resource Links

 

Online Handouts

handouts on the writing process, grammar and editing, documentation, analysis, and argumentation

Purdue OWL
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

The Writer's Handbook at The Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html

The Online Writery: Conversation Coffeehouse for Writers

http://www.missouri.edu/~writery/

UVic Writer's Guide
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/

Writer's Web
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html

The Writers' Workshop
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm

Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html

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Online Encyclopedias & References some good starting points for research
 

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.com

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/

William Strunk’s Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/OWLS

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Citation  
 

APA Style
http://www.apastyle.org/

MLA Style: from Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation Online
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/english.html

CBE Style: from Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation Online
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/sciences/number.html

Columbia Guide to Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

IEEE Standards Style Manual
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/

Style Manuals and Citation Guides
http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/style_manuals.html

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Evaluating Websites resources to help you decide whether and how to use information from the Web in the papers you write
 

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly: Or, why it’s a good idea to evaluate web resources
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

Evaluating Web Resources
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/libinst/lib101/webfaq08.html


Evaluating Quality on the Net
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

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Plagiarism what it is, and how to avoid it
 

Washington State University Plagiarism Site
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/plagiarism/

Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf

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