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WRITING GUIDES

• Writing guides
• Citation style sources
• Plagiarism
• Evaluation of sources
• Research quick guides
• Thesauri & dictionaries

Academic Writing

The CCU Writing Center is an excellent on-campus, person-to-person resource for students. 

Writing guides

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (discovering what to write, organizing, revising, editing, writing informal/thesis/support/exploratory/argumentative essays, and documenting resources)
• Writer's Guide (Univ of Victoria) (comprehensive and detailed) (writing as a process -- types of essays, getting started, organizing, getting it down, proofreading, common problems; acknowledging sources -- quoting, plagiarism, bibliographies, citations; and how-to information on paragraphs, sentences, words, logic, grammar)
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation (Straus)
• English Usage and Citation Guide (Best Information on the Net)
• Grammars and Language Courses (extensive list of English grammars, as well as other languages)
• Guide to Grammar and Style (Lynch)
• Help for Term Paper Writers
• Enhance My Writing Indispensable Writing Resources
• Online English Grammar
• Online Writing Lab OWL Handouts for Students & Teachers (Purdue)
• Punctuation Made Simple
• Strunk's Elements of Style
• Writing Center at RPI Handouts: Types and Styles of Writing
• Writers' Workshop (Univ of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign)(writing web sites, grammar, citation styles)

Citation style sources

• Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke)(comparison guide to APA, MLA, Chicago, and Turabian style)
• ...Citation Guide
• Citing Sacred Texts
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Assn
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (OWL)
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format (OWL)
• Writing Center at RPI APA and MLA Style Handouts

Plagiarism

• All About Plagiarism
• Synthesis:  Using the Work of Others

Evaluation of sources

• Evaluating Sources of Information (JMU)(chose Module 6)
• Evaluating Web Sites (BRCC)(brief)
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask (Berkeley)(thorough)

Library research quick guides

• Surfing the Cyber Library (Pitt) (video for researching & evaluating Web info)
• Finding Information on the Internet:  a Tutorial (Berkeley)
• How to Read a Call Number (LC)(video)(Uark)
• How to Read Call Numbers (Arizona)
• Information Literacy: Module 2 (Identifying a Topic) (Univ of Idaho)(very clear)
• Information Literacy: Module 3 (Searching: Your Search Strategy) (Univ of Idaho)(very clear)
• Information Literacy: Module 4 (Locating information - Includes Understanding Citations) Univ of Idaho)(very clear)
• Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)
• Library of Congress Call Number System Overview & Practice (Pitt)
• Library of Congress Classification Scheme Online
• Popular vs. Scholarly Articles (Arizona interactive guide)
• Research 101 (UConn):  (Selecting Key Words & Concepts; Broadening/Narrowing Vocabulary ) 
• Research 101 (UConn): (Distinguishing a Database from Other Types of Info Collections)
• Scholarly or Popular? (short Youtube video (Vanderbilt))

Thesauri, dictionaries, quotations

• American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Ed
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• Roget II: The New Thesaurus
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• YourDictionary.com (Extensive listing of multi-language dictionaries and grammars, thesauri)