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Online Resources: All Purpose Handbooks
American Psychological
Association, Publication Manual (5th Edition)
Provides detailed instruction on referencing and page layout
as well as advice on style and grammar.
A
Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker
Provides answers on grammar, punctuation, and referencing.
It is compact and clearly written.
Keys
for Writers: A Brief Handbook by Ann Raimes
Includes keys on the writing process, documenting sources
(APA, CBE, and Chicago), and common sentence level errors,
as well as keys for ESL writers.
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr and E.B. White
Includes rules of usage and composition as well as commonly
misused words and expression.
Simon
& Schuster Handbook for Writers by Lynn Troyka
Serves as a thorough guidebook for the stages of writing research
papers and literary analysis papers.
Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers, Modern Language Association (5th Edition)
Gives guidelines for referencing as well as advice on style
and grammar.
Chicago Manual
of Style (15th Edition)
Gives guidelines for referencing as well as advice on style
and grammar.
Merriam-Webster
Online
Roget’s Thesaurus
Online Writing Handouts
There are many online writing centers and writing center handouts.
This list is by no means comprehensive but represents some
of the more useful sites.
The University of Auckland's ReferenCite
Contains great information about the social purposes of referencing and citing as well as how to use APA correctly.
University
of Wisconsin at Madison Writer’s Handbook
InApril 29, 2008 and referencing.
University
of Minnesota Academic Resource Center
Includes handouts on brainstorming, researching, editing and
more.
Troy
State University Writing Center
Includes handouts on research, grammar, and the writing process.
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Offers handouts on brainstorming, thesis statements, paragraph
development, and grammar. Includes specific advice on writing
a dissertation.
Purdue
University Online Writing Lab
Includes handouts on all stages of writing. Provides several
resources for ESOL writers.
University
of Rochester Writing Center
Links to handouts on writing in the social sciences, editing,
pre-writing, and other areas.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Includes handouts on organizing writing, editing writing,
and documenting sources as well as on argumentative, exploratory,
and thesis driven essays.
Claremont
College Electronic Writing Assistance
Offers handouts on the stages of writing, types of writing,
grammar, and style.
Dartmouth
University Student Resources
Provides general advice on academic writing.
Indiana State
University
Provides grammar handouts.
PDF Downloads (require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to
view)
Writing Extended Texts
Critical Reading of Academic Texts
English as a Second Language
Writing Your MA Thesis, Doctoral
Dissertation or Grant Proposal
Writing in the Social Sciences
Writing Workshop Notes
Other Resources
If you would like to learn more about using bibliographic management
software, University librarians are available for individual
appointments. For EndNote, contact Pat Sulouff at
psulouff@library.rochester.edu. For RefWorks, contact Diana Luce at
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