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Featured Site:

• Strunk, W., Elements of Style (Original on line) [Project Bartleby]

Research Using the Internet/WWW:

• How to Approach a Student Research Project Mike Hart's site which will help you with practical sources of advice to help you successfully write your final year project,dissertation or thesis.

• Using the Web for Research (Comprehensive Directory!)

Scholarly Writing Software:

• http://www.notabene.com/

Writing Guides & Resources:

• Writing Assistance [Arizona State University]

• Indispensible Writing Resources (Quintessential Careers: Job-Hunting Guide) Writing Reference Sites on the Web This page includes links to the online versions of general style guides, such as the APA Style Guide and Chicago Manual of Style, as well as many others.

• Allyn & Bacon: English Writing [Suggestions for Authors]

• Harvard's Expository Writing Program

• Writing Resources [Indiana University]

• Online Writing Labs: Should We? Will We? Are We? "Hypertextual writing resources, on the Web and elsewhere, are forcing -- or is that "allowing"? -- students, teachers and administrators to re-think and re-evaluate the ways we help students learn to write. Perhaps no resource available has had more of an effect over the last year than the sudden plethora of Online Writing Labs (OWLs) available."
• WRITING AND PRESENTING YOUR THESIS OR DISSERTATION [S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D. (levine@msue.msu.edu), Department of Agricultural and Extension Education Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan This is an excellent and very comprehensive collection of good advice for graduate students. However, even undergraduates students can learn from it, since most of the recommendations apply -- in a scaled-down way -- to undergraduate projects and theses as well!
• Research Resources for the Social Sciences [www.socsciresearch.com/text.html]
• Lectures on Causality in the Social Sciences, Spring 1997; In Honor of Herbert L. Costner "This series of lectures, featuring world leaders in the study of causality from several disciplines, will be held in Spring Quarter 1997 on the University of Washington campus to honor and celebrate the contributions of Sociology Professor Emeritus Herbert L. Costner to the University over a period of 40 years."

Misuse of Sources and Plagiarism

• Intellectual and Academic Honesty [University of Washington]

• Plagiarism [Writing with Sources A Guide for Harvard Students, Gordon Harvey, 1995, Expository Writing Program]
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

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