WRITING - RESEARCH PAPERS

Composition
Essays
Evaluating Sources
Grammar, Sentence Structure  (You will be taken to another web page.)
Plain Writing
Research Papers

Also see: Dictionaries, Thesauri  (You will be taken to another web page.)

APA Style Guide & Documentation  (You will be taken to another web page.)
Electronic Citations

Business Writing Menu
(Business writing resources, on another web page, includes business letters, business plans, cover letters, gender neutral writing, grants, proposals, resumes)

Composition, Essays

Develop Different Types of Paragraphs & Essays - Tips & Articles - About.com, Richard Nordquist
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/u/paressay07.htm

Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/
Owl Writing Lab helps preparing, researching, and writing the paper, as well as documenting sources.  Web site includes tips on business writing, professional writing, and grammar.
Owl Site Map Index

Practical Techniques... to Organize and Compose Your Essays
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/composition.htm  Superior web site
Preparation for Paper, Tips, Five-Paragraph Essay, and Types of Oraganization of Essays - 
Capital Community College; Hartford, Connecticut

Information Literacy:
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/infolit/
Web site discusses brainstorming, research, evaluating sources, plagiarism and ethics, communicating, and writing an essay or paper

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Meta Writing Web Sites - Comprehensive Treasure Trove of Web Links on Writing
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/writing-labs.html  OWL - Writing labs on-line
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/   Garbl Writing - Web sites, by topic

About.Com's 25 Best Writing Web Sites
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/onlineresources/a/25WriteSites.htm

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Plain Writing

Garbl's Concise and Plain Writing Resources
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/concise.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/plaineng.htm

Cheryl Stephens on Plain Writing - Articles
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/stephens/

Evaluating Sources

http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/evaluate/evaluate.shtml
     Infodome
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
     U.C. Berkeley
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/infolit/evaluate.htm
     Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation
     Association of College and Research Libraries

Proofreading  (Standard Proofreading Marks)

http://www.eeicom.com/staffing/marks.html
http://www.spellingpolice.com/higher/proof.html
 

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