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Resources for Faculty

—Professional Organizations
—Bibliographies & Databases
—Online Journals
—WAC Resources
—Discipline-specific Resources
—Teaching with Technology
—Course Management Systems

 


Resources for Students

—Online Handouts
—Encyclopedias & References
—Citation Guidelines
—Evaluating Websites
—Avoiding Plagiarism

 


Resources for Courses

—Writing 1
—Writing 2
—Writing 50
—Engineering Writing
—ACE
—Writing 109AC
—Writing 109EC
—Writing 109ES
—Writing 109F
—Writing 109GS
—Writing 109HP
—Writing 109HU
—Writing 109L
—Writing 109SS
—Writing 109ST
—Writing 109V
—Writing 109WS
—Writing 110L



 

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

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

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

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

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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