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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)
   
 
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