Helpful Resources
High-quality materials on the art and craft of effective college-level writing are always in demand, and this website from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a veritable cornucopia of such documents. The materials were created by the school’s Writing Center, and they are divided into four areas: “Writing the Paper,” “Citation, Style, and Sentence Level Concerns,” “Specific Writing Assignments/Contexts” and “Writing for Specific Fields.” The “Writing for Specific Fields” area is a great place for students who have declared a major, and each piece contains a bit of background on the nature of writing in each field, along with some information about the key units of analysis, assumptions and so on. What is perhaps most impressive about this site are the multimedia writing demonstrations which cover “Developing Ideas,” “Drafting” and two other key areas of the writing process. [KMG]
Writing Center Handouts and Demos
Writer’s Web (includes discipline-specific writing instruction)
Links to formatting and citation style guides:
APA, Chicago, MLA
APA (American Psychological Association)
Chicago (Chicago Manual of Style)
MLA (Modern Language Association)
CSE style (Council of Science Editors)
Harvard style – online tutorial
Harvard style- Reference Guide
Another Harvard style source