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Citation Styles
APA Style http://www.apastyle.org/
Introduction to APA style as well as regular updates to APA style are available from this website.
Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/workscited/
A guideline for citing resources from journals, magazines, books, letters, interviews, online resources, etc. based on APA, Chicago, MLA, and Turabian styles.
The writers' workshop (the center for writing studies) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/writer_resources/citation_styles/citation_styles.htm
This Handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for two different citation styles: APA style and MLA style.
The Chicago Manual of Style Q&A http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
On this site, the staff of the editing department at the University of Chicago Press answer FAQs about word usage, rules of punctuation & grammar, and other manuscript preparation dilemmas.
Citing Electronic Resources http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/help/cite.html
A listing of guides for citing electronic and Internet sources.
Citing the Internet and Electronic Information http://www.snc.edu/library/students/researchguides/citingtheinternet.html
This site illustrates how to cite information found on the Internet, World Wide Web, electronic databases, and e-mail messages. APA style, MLA style, Turabian or Chicago Manual of Style are discussed.
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
This site illustrates how to cite email communications, web sites, documents on a web site, and articles from electronic databases.
MLA http://www.mla.org/
This page provides guidelines on MLA documentation style.
Academic Writing
A+ Research and Writing http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/
Includes a six-step guide to researching and writing a paper: Getting started; Discovering and choosing a topic; Looking for and forming a focus, Gathering information; Preparing to write; Writing the paper.
A Guide for Writing Research Papers http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
Guide to Grammar and Writing http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
A wonderful collection of advice and resources pertaining to its subject with very useful advice and illustrations on various grammar topics and writing skills. You can also find computer-graded quizzes or search for topics of interest.
Nuts and Bolts of College Writing http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
This website is a guide to writing college-level assignments and papers. Coverage includes thinking, style, structure and evidence. The site also provides examples illustrating different writing tools and potential pitfalls that students may encounter.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation http://www.learnerassociates.net/dissthes/
This website provides a detailed guide on preparing thesis or dissertation. It gives a step-by-step guide to assist readers in thinking through the many aspects of crafting, preparing and writing a thesis or dissertation